The Key Terms/Concepts for the Second Exam 

1. Cultural Relativism

2. Arête

3. Hexis

4. Moral obligation

5. Habit

6. Custom

7. Culture

8. Tradition and Charisma

9  Behaviorist

10. Nomoi

11. Nature

12. Ritual purity

13. Religion

14. The gap between God and human

15. Reason and the functions of reason

16. Just and fair

17. Lex talionis

18. Cultural colonialism

19. Moral Dilemmas

20. Duty

21. Filial loyalty

22. Standard and measure

23. Horos

24. “Religiously proper”

25. Dialectic method

26. The method of objective

27. Relativism (p. 1260

28. Objective truth

29. Self reflexivity

30. Conventionalism

31. Anarchism (p. 126)

32. Skepticism (p. 126

33. Naturalistic fallacy (p.122)

34. Non-cognitivism (p.126)

35. Maxim p. (154)

36. Ethical Subjectivism

37.  “Servant” and "Slave”

38.   “Categorical imperative” (p. 170)

 

Important Persons and their Stories/arguments

 

Aristotle

Job and al-Ash‘ari s’ three brother’s stories

Arjuna’s and Krishna’s arguments

Euthyphro

Confucius’ and Musonius’ arguments

‘the Good’ in Plato

Protagoras’ thesis

Chuang Tzu 

The Portuguese Jesuit Luis De Molina’

Cicero

Locke

Kant