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Morality Worksheet
Directions:
Fill out the Morality Worksheet accordingly, as you complete your weekly textbook
reading.
Once you have completed the worksheet, save your work in the original .pdf format, with the file
name "lastnamefirstnameReligion," so for Jane Doe the file name would be "DoeJaneReligion."
You will be submitting your worksheet in this module as an assignment titled "Religion
Worksheet" by clicking on the Browse My Computer button below the text editor in Blackboard.
1. As you complete your reading, fill in the blanks in the chart for each of the philosophers.
Name of
Philosopher
Relevant Text Summarize Main
Theory
Identify Key
Concept from
Reading
1. Socrates Always on the side
of reason
Socrates believed
that philosophy
should achieve
practical results for
the greater
well-being of
society. He
attempted to
establish an ethical
system based on
human reason
Goodness and truth,
that the virtuous act
is done for its own
sake. Rational
humans live
according to the
law, even if the law
is harmful to them
2. Glaucon ``With his
reputation for virtue,
he will hold offices
of state, ally himself
by marriage to any
family he may
choose, become a
partner in any
business, and having
no scruples about
Everyone does the
right thing out of
motives instead of
reason or innate
goodness.
Ring of
Gyges

being dishonest,
turn all these
disadvantages to
profit.”
3. Plato The Republic Plato's Theory
of Forms asserts that
the physical world is
not really the 'real'
world; instead,
ultimate reality exists
beyond our physical
world
both the
governing and the
governed will
generally be driven
by self-interest
unless held in check
by one supreme
ruler.