Key
Concepts and Vocabulary
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An unexamined life is not worth living (Socrates).
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The End does not justify the Means, i.e. a person cannot employ
a bad means to achieve a good end.
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Cheating of any kind destroys one’s integrity.
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Integrity requires taking responsibility for all your actions.
Vocabulary
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Unexamined life – to live without having
goals or purpose for achieving personal growth.
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Golden Mean - living a moral life means avoiding
the extremes of doing too much or too little, and choosing rather
to do what is between these extremes.
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Relativism - the moral position that says that
each individual is free to choose to act according to what he/she
thinks is good and right for them to choose without having any
regard for what others believe to be moral.
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