Answer the following questions briefly.

Define civics education using your own words and state its differences from ethical education.

What is morality? What about ethics? Compare and contrast morality and ethics.

State the relationship between ethics and law. What is ethical dilemma?

What are the goals of moral and Civic educations? Give explanations for each goal based on Ethiopian context. Support your explanations using examples.

What are the competences required from good citizens?

What is normative ethics?

Discuss the following and offer example for each of them

• Teleological ethics
• Egoism
• Ethical egoism
• Psychological egoism
• Utilitarianism
• Classical utilitarianism
• Jeremy Bentham’s quantity over quality argument
• John Stuart Mill’s quality over quantity argument
• Act and rule utilitarianism
• Discuss the strength, criticism and problems related to formulating utilitarianism
• Deontological ethics
• The divine command theory
• Rights theory
• Kant’s categorical imperatives (state all the available principles as well)
• Ross’s Prima Facie Duties or Moral Guidelines (state all the duties ad explain them)
• Virtue ethics
• Discuss Aristotle’s ethics in detail
• What is Non-normative or meta-ethics?
• State arguments of cognitivism (strong as well as weak ones and offer example for each)
• Discuss the argument of Non-cognitivism.  (Internalism and Externalism/humanism and non-humanism)

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1 Civic education refers to the processes which influence beliefs of people actions commitments and capabilities as prospective community members Civic education is deliberate or intentional where com... View the full answer