ETHICS Flashcards
branch of philosophy studies human acts and conduct
ETHICS
ETHICS came from Greek word
ETHOS
Ethos means?
customs or morals
Its is a study of morality of human acts and moral gents
ETHICS
3 BRANCHES OF ETHICS?
METAETHICS
NORMATIVE ETHICS
APPLIED ETHICS
STUDY OTHE FOUNDATION OF MORALITY ITSELF
METAETHICS
BELIEVES THERE ARE “MORAL FACTS” SAME AS SCIENTIFIC FACTS
MORAL REALISM
CAN ONLY BE TRUE OR FALSE
MORAL REALISM
There are absolute standards against which moral questions can be judge
Moral absolutism
Moral Relativism has 2 components
Descriptive cultural
Normative cultural
Moral belief differ from culture to culture
Descriptive cultural
not beliefs but moral facts that differ from culture to culture
Normative cultural
Moral Proposition ‘Don’t refer to objective features’ No Moral Facts
Moral Anti Realism
Moral statements True or False but refer to peoples attitude rather than their Actions
Moral Subjectivism
Deals with norms or set of considerations on how should one act
Normative ethics
Focusing on rightness or wrongness of action by examining consequences
Teleological
Focusing on Rightness or wrongness of actions themselves without any considerations
Deontological
Consequentialist theory as moral right of wrong
-Dependent outcome of the actioN
teleological
Non consequential theory as moral right or wrong
Not dependent on the outcome of the action
Deontological
Not always possible to predict the consequences of an action
Teleological
Rigid and Objective
Deontological
Attempt to apply ethical principles and moral theories to real life moral issues
Applied ethics
Education whether formal or informal is a never-
ending process and is the foundation of man’s moral,
intellectual and physical capacities.
Ethics and education
not everything moral is legal
and not everything legal is moral. Meaning there are good things
that do not need legislation and immoral acts that the State may
approve. But to further differentiate them laws only used external
acts while ethics cover man’s “acts” that play in his mind that will not
incriminate him in any statute.
Morality and law
Man in his constant search for happiness be it
temporal or eternal is never ending. They say polics
and ethics are poles apart – in a certain point that is
correct it is the very reason why politics become dirty
for they deviate from ethics.
Ethics and Politics
Ethics is about positive morality while art is beauty. Any work of art
that is beautiful, will give a posive outlook to the looker that will be
greatly appreciated.
Ethics and art
Religion is ethics and ethics is religion, they are
interchangeable for the any religious belief
tends to ethical standards in relation to his
most fundamental tenet.
Ethics and religion
Goodness or badness of human actions guided by ethical Standards
Morality
action of men that are done willfully and willingly
Human Acts
