Chapter 1 Flashcards
What is Morality?
A belief system that includes judgements, values, rules, and principles that concerns what is right or wrong, good and bad among those beliefs.
Why is thinking/studying Ethics important?
It allows one to create, form, and understand their own personal morals without simply conforming to their families or society’s majority taught morals.
What is descriptive ethics?
The scientific study of moral beliefs and practices. It is meant to describe and explain how people behave and think without dealing with moral issues and concepts.
What is moral philosophy?
Focuses on not what people actually think about and behave like, but rather what the SHOULD believe and think like.
What is normative ethics?
One of the three major divisions of ethics. It studies principles, rules, or theories that guide our actions and judgements. It is supposed to set the “norms” of a moral system.
What is metaethics?
One of three major division of ethics. It studies the meaning and logical structure of moral beliefs. It doesn’t study individual actions or person’s character. It studies what does it mean for an action to be “right” or if there are such things as moral truths.
What is applied ethics?
One of three major divisions of ethics. It is the application of moral norms to specific situations. Particularly in the practices such as medicine or law. For example, an abortion procedure would be under this division.
What is intrinsically valuable?
A thing that is valuable in themselves, such as happiness, beauty, and pleasure.
What is instrumentally (extrinsically) valuable?
Something that is valuable as a means to something else, such as a car, money, or swimming pool.
