AS Ethics Words Flashcards
Objective
Not influenced by personal feeling or opinions in considering and representing facts.
Subjective
Based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes or opinions.
Absolute
A value or principle regarded as universally valid and universally binding. A rule that is true in all situations
Relative
Nothing may be said to be objectively right or wrong; it depends on the situation, culture and so on.
Transcendent
Beyond human understanding
Empirical
Derived from or guided by experience or experiment
Deontological
An approach to ethics that focuses on the rightness or wrongness of actions themselves, as opposed to the rightness or wrongness of the consequences/end/telos of those actions. An action that is inherently wrong or right, it doesn’t matter about the circumstances of the outcome.
Teleological
Moral actions are right or wrong according to their outcome or telos. Teleological ethics are concerned with the purpose of the ultimate goal of something.
A priori
A statement which is knowable without reference to any experience.
A posterori
A statement which is knowable after experience.
Virtues
habitually doing what is right- being good requires the practice of a certain type of behaviour.
Vices
Opposite of virtues. Habitual wrong action
Intrinsically good
something which is good in itself, without reference to the consequences
Extrinsically good
Something which is good because it leads to something else
Eternal
Everlasting, without end. Having always existed and always will.
