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The ____________________approach to ethics focuses on doing the most good and least amount of harm. For example, before making a decision, you consider which outcome will benefit the greatest number of people.   

In Ethics Unwrapped: Moral Relativism, you learned that normative moral relativism 

Which modern era philosopher promoted the view that God is a “clockmaker” who made the world, set it in motion, but is uninterested and uninvolved in the daily affairs of humans?

According to this early enlightenment philosopher, math and reason were all that was needed to discover truth in the sciences.   He is considered one of the two “fathers” of the Age of Enlightenment and proposed the “clock-maker” theory of creation.

Now that you are near the end of this course, please rate your ability to correlate the pathophysiology learned to patient disease states.

Keith and Heather were discussing cosmetic surgery one day. “I’m thinking of having my hippocampus removed,” said Keith. “It’s so tiny, and I just think my brain would look more streamlined without it.” “Yeah…why don’t you look into that,” Heather replied in sarcastic disbelief. Why does Heather think Keith is pursuing a dramatically foolish idea?

Which of the reasons given below is NOT one of the major points in St. Augustine’s City of God?

 A 20th century psychologist who promoted the belief that we are “driven by unconscious desires and motives was

In considering the context for the ideas of St. Augustine, we found that he converted to Christianity in early adulthood and became a major influence on Western Christianity and Ethics.  Of the descriptions given below which one WAS NOT a part of the context for his ideas?

In Module 2 we considered Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave.”  In the video we viewed we saw that prisoners who had been chained in a cave from an early age had no understanding of the reality of the outside world and could not understand it even when a former prisoner who had been freed returned to the cave to tell them about it.  Which branch of philosophy is represented by the prisoners’ limited understanding and would be concerned with the limits of knowledge?