Different Thought processes of ethics Flashcards
cultivating moral reasoning
- what and what
- think about alternate ?
- justify
- ethical lapses are not always ?
dialogue and convo.
courses of actions and consequences of each
decision
as straightforward as fabrication and plagiarism
Kant's Categorical Imperative also known as ? -act only on the maxim whereby you can at the same time will that ? in other words ? the test = categorical= conscience is ? and must be ?
Deontological ethics it should become universal law -what is right for one is right for all -can decision be universalized ? -unconditional in all cases inborn in every person/obeyed
when using kant’s it is important to explain the ?
imperative
ex: truth telling, safety
Kan’t categorical imperative is all about ?
maxims must be ? even if contrary to ?
Kant encourages ?
duty
- obeyed always/ natural inclinations and socially accepted standards
- obedience and faithful practice
John Stuart Mill’s Principle of Utility or Utilitarianism
- weigh the ?
- seek the ?
- what will yield the best consequences for the welfare of ?
- rightness and wrongness assessed in terms of total amount of ?
conseuqences
- greatest good for the greatest number
- human beings
- value ultimately produced
guideliens of john stuart mills principle of utility
-conscientiously calculate the
-ask how much benefit and how much harm would result in lives of ?
-choose option with ?
to perform any other action would result in an ?
-various options open to us
-everyone affected including ourselves
-max. value or minimum loss
unethical course
Aristotle’s Golden Mean
- moral virtue is a ? determined by ?
- emphasis on ?
- what is stressed rather than ?
- focuses on ?
- practical wisdom =
- NOT a
middle state/ moderation or temperance
- moderation or temperance
- propriety/ sheer duty or love
- character of a person
- knowledge of the proper ends of conduct and the means of attaining them
- bland weak-minded consensus or compromise
John Rawl’s Veil of Ignorance
- justice emerges when negotiating ?
- what is fundamental idea in concept of ?
- all parties step back from / into an? behind a barrier where
- behind the veil no one knows how he or she will
without social differentiation
- fairness/justice
- real circumstances/original position/roles and social differentiations are eliminated
- fare when stepping out into real life (thus seek to protect weaker party and minimize risk)
john Rawls veil of ignorance continued
-what and what NOT ?
2 principles emerge
negotiation and discussion NOT intuition
- equal basic liberty
- allowance for inequalities in distribution of goods only if they benefit least advantaged
Judeo-Christian Tradition Agape: -golden rule: -respect for the dignity of persons as an ? Agape: accord specific help to those who ? not?
love your neighbor as yourself
- end in itself not as a means to an end
- unselfishness; other regarding care and other directed love
- need it/ discriminatory
Social Responsibility -popular after panel to ? -concluded freedom of press is not ? media must? 1947 ? -freedom of press not -media must be ? , guard? counterpoint to ?
look after state of mass media -unconditional -guard free speech and press hutchins comission (same things as above) -libertarianism
Libertarian theory of press assumes that all people are? and truth is discoverable in a? - - -
rational
- secular, empirical way
- marketplace of ideas
- no govt. interference
- free and open competition
shift from? -psychology taught that society is not always -truth is subject to? -cultural? commission concerned about trend toward?
libertarianism to social resp.
- rational
- varying perceptions and interpretation s
- differences and illiteracy
- concentration and consolidation of media ownership
