According to utilitarianism, you ought to consider how your actions will impact all of the people affected by your action and decide to act in a way that maximizes the greatest good for the greatest number.

A moral statement is prescriptive and not descriptive.

Which of the following were NOT featured in the Michael Sandel video?

The Nazi war crime trials had the effect of making cultural relativism the prevailing ethical outlook in Europe following WWII because many of the Nazi leaders were convicted on the basis of their own cultural norms.

According to the Deterrence Theory, punishment is justified on the basis that the criminal deserves to be punished for what he or she did.

The word ‘virtue’ refers to excellence, power, capacity, skill, or positive trait whereby a moral virtue is the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong.

According to Cohen, a morally good person is truthful, morally courageous, trustworthy, and possesses moral autonomy.

Which of the following is a moral statement?

Michael Sandel prompted Harvard students to think about particular cases and then asked them to reflect on the moral principles that provided the basis for the students’ judgments about those particular cases.

Cultural relativism claims that there is a single, universal set of moral norms that apply to all human beings throughout world history.