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TEXTBOOK(S) AND REQUIRED MATERIALS:

Title: Thinking Critically

Author: Chaffee

Publisher: Cengage

Year Published: 2019

Edition: 12th

ISBN: 10: xxxxxxxxxx or 13: 9780357690109

Covering Chapters 9 and 10

For this assignment, you will answer the questions below in a Word document and submit it by the  due date. This is a short week, so please be on time; no late work will be accepted. All work must be original and composed individually.

READING ACTIVITY 9.1: MORAL JUDGMENTS

Skills Focus

· Understanding words in context: using a dictionary to understand word etymology

· Recognizing main ideas and supporting details

· Applying study skills to reading materials: summarizing

1. To help you understand this section, it is helpful to know the etymology, or word history, of the philosophies and moral theories referred to. Use a dictionary to find the etymology (word origin) of each word below. Also, use a combination of context clues and internal clues to increase your understanding of the words.

Example: philosophy

a. psychological b. conscience c. agnostic d. pragmatic

e. theist f. hedonist g. altruistic

Etymology

phil = love, sophia = wisdom

Word Meaning

love of wisdom, pursuit of wisdom

2. Review the moral theories presented in the chapter. For each theory, write a brief definition of its views and summarize the problem, if any, with its moral reasoning.

· Psychological theory of morality

· Moral agnostic theory of morality

· Pragmatic theory of morality

· Theist theory of morality

· Hedonist moral theory

· Authoritarian moral theory

· Altruistic moral theory