Eduqas A-Level Religious Studies Component 3 Ethical Thought and Deontology overview quiz quiz

Moral truths are grounded in autonomous human reason alone, wholly without reference to any divine will

An action is right because God commands it and wrong because God forbids it

Morality is simply a product of evolution and natural selection

Goodness consists in finding the rational mean between two opposing vices

That God himself must defer to a standard of goodness that exists above and independently of him

That morality is fully independent of God and his commands

That morality is arbitrary, since God could command cruelty and it would be good

That God cannot exist if cruelty is wrong

The experience of pleasure together with the complete absence of any pain

Faithful obedience to the revealed commands of God

The greatest happiness of the greatest number of people

Flourishing or living well, the final end of human life

A virtue lies at the mean between two vices, one of excess and one of deficiency

One should always select whichever available outcome turns out to be statistically the most average

One should act so as to maximise overall happiness in every single decision

One should always follow the most loving course of action available

The internalised voice of parental authority learned in childhood

The innate, rational disposition to do good and avoid evil

A feeling of guilt produced by the repressive demands of the super-ego

The voice of one's deepest authentic self

The internalised voice of external authority sternly demanding our obedience

The repressive super-ego inherited from one's parents

The voice of the authentic self calling us to fulfil our potential

The direct voice of God speaking within

Faith, hope and charity together with justice, prudence, temperance and fortitude combined

Pragmatism, relativism, positivism and personalism, all working through love

Intensity, duration, certainty, propinquity and extent of the pleasure produced

Preserve life, reproduce, educate the young, live in an ordered society, worship God

An act with a good intended effect and a foreseen but unintended bad effect, if the act is not wrong in itself, the bad is not the means, and the good outweighs the bad

Any act at all, provided that its total consequences maximise the happiness of the greatest number of people affected, regardless of the intention behind it or the means employed

Deliberately breaking any moral rule whenever love or compassion appears to require it in the particular situation faced

Treating other people merely as means to one's own ends, never as ends in themselves

One should always act so as to maximise the total balance of happiness over suffering produced by the act

It is never right to go against a principle unless there is a proportionate reason to justify it

One should follow the demands of selfless agape love in every single situation

One should act only on those maxims that can be willed as universal laws

An act that is intrinsically and always morally wrong in itself, whatever the surrounding circumstances may be

A grave sin committed directly against the revealed will of God

The physical, non-moral feature of an act (such as death or pain) considered apart from intention

A deliberate breach of Kant's universal categorical imperative

That it is far too rigid and legalistic in the way it approaches difficult moral cases

That it completely ignores the agent's intention when judging acts

That it rejects the whole framework of natural law entirely

That it is consequentialism in disguise and abandons exceptionless moral norms

Morality depends on religion, receiving its rules from an external authority (God)

Morality is entirely independent of religion and its teachings

Religion and morality are inseparable, and yet neither one of them is reducible to the other

Morality arises purely from the process of evolution

Morality is simply obedience to the revealed commands that God directly issues to humanity through scripture and the church

Morality is autonomous (self-legislated by reason), but God is postulated as a presupposition of the highest good

God certainly does not exist, and so genuine objective morality is altogether impossible

Morality consists in finding the rational mean between opposing vices

Morality is wholly independent of God and owes absolutely nothing whatever to him or to any religious tradition at all

Morality is nothing more than internalised social convention and the parental authority absorbed in childhood

Religion and morality are intimately connected: natural law is known by reason yet grounded in God's eternal law

An act is good only insofar as it maximises pleasure

It is far too narrowly focused on rigidly following abstract rules, duties and binding obligations

It ignores the gradual development of a person's settled moral character over time

It depends entirely on God's revealed commands to function

It does not tell us what to do (it gives no clear decision procedure for hard cases)