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- 2. Ethics is the study of what is right and wrong from a ....... point of view
- 7. Christians try to live by the Golden Rule which Jesus passed on to his followers: '..... unto others as you would have them ..... unto you'. (Matthew 7:12)
- 9. After his death, Bentham's body was mummified and is now seated in a glass case in the front hall of ...... university
- 11. Jews and Christians believe that God gave the 10 Commandments to ........ on Mount Sinai
- 12. Although killing a person is wrong as it breaks the 6th Commandment, some Jews and Christians might consider it morally justifiable in certain circumstances if the ............. behind the act of killing is a good one
- 14. Divine Command Ethics is an example of a ............. ethical theory
- 15. Bentham thought that the sport of bear-baiting was morally wrong as the ............... of these creatures outweighed any happiness that this spectator sport gave to the human onlookers
- 16. Bentham's pupil who went on to develop Utilitarianism as an ethical theory was John Stuart .......
- 18. The 5 Precepts are moral rules which all .............. try to follow
- 20. The 8th of the 10 Commandments states that one should not .......
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- 1. Utilitarianism is an example of a .............. ethical theory
- 3. Divine Command Ethics states that an action is morally right if it is in accordance with a ...... passed by God
- 4. The 4th Precept states that one should abstain from ......... speech
- 5. One problem that Utilitarians face when calculating what they should do is that the consequences of an action are often difficult to ............
- 6. Bentham's Principle of Utility states that an action is right if it produces 'the greatest happiness for the greatest ............'
- 8. Bentham said that one person's happiness was to count as equal to another person's - which he summed up in the following phrase: 'Everybody to count for ......, and nobody for more than ......'
- 10. The virtue that one should try to develop in order to comply with the 4th Precept is ...........
- 13. Utilitarianism was founded by ........... Bentham
- 17. Jesus famously said that 'if someone slaps you on one ......., turn to them the other also'. He was a pacificist, in other words. (Luke 6:29)
- 19. The christian apostle Paul taught that all human beings are of equal worth in the eyes of God, famously writing that, 'There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither ........ nor free, nor is there male or female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus'. (Galatians 3:28)