Ethics 1 Flashcards
is a practical and normative science based on reason that studies human acts and provides norms for their goodness or badness.
ethics
refers to certain knowledge revealed by God to humans, which one cannot fully understand but has to accept as true because God said so
Divine revelation
are done with with knowledge and full consent
human acts
refers to those which are performed in the absence of either knowledge or consent or both
acts of man
this refers to a situation in which one’s conscience errs or is mistaken
erroneous conscience
refers to all diverse ethical formulations of general and universal concepts and principles that serve as the foundation of morality
general ethics
general ethics is sometimes called as
normative ethical inquiry
this is the scientific study of morality that is interested in what factually is the case, and not in what ought to be the case
applied ethics
is the oldest phase of bioethical exploration, is a formulation of ethical norms for the conduct of healthcare professionals in the treatment of patients
medical ethics
was drafted in 1947 as a response to the Nazi practice of conducting hazardous and, oftentimes, fatal experiments on healthy inmates.
Nuremberg Code
The code has attempted to humanize the cruel and barbaric nature of experiments using human specimens conducted in many German concentration caps.
Nuremberg Code
This is the third stage in the development of bioethical inquiry
public policy