Ethics Flashcards
the empirical study of moral decisions.
It is a discipline concerned with what is morally good
and evil, right and wrong.
Ethics
which concerns human
behavior in general, is to address our questions
about the essence of human behavior.
Normative ethics
2 Fields of Normative Ethics
Moral philosophy and Applied ethics
deals with moral
ideas such as what human beings
“must do or how human beings
should be.” This also deals with our
moral obligation, the meaning of the
act, or the purpose of the act.
Moral Philosophy
is a philosophy that
discusses strong and basic moral
issues linked to abortion.
Applied ethics i
is a discipline that relies on meaning.
It is a science that is seeking to address non-moral questions about morality
Meta-ethics
refer to the guidelines we
have on the types of acts that we find to be morally permissible and morally unacceptable
Moral standards
apply to laws which are not related to social or legal considerations. Perhaps these criteria are not inherently related to morality or, by their very definition, lack of ethical sense
Non-moral standards
Decorum propriety means
reverence for the formal criteria governing conduct
in a civilized society.
Etiquette
are the basis of the capacity of an
individual to distinguish between right and wrong.
Values
a moral dilemma is a situation in which a decisionmaker
must give preference to one moral principle over
another.
Kvalnes (2019)
a moral dilemma is a situation in which people assume that they should morally do one thing and that they should morally do another thing, and occasionally a third thing or even a fourth thing, but they’re not
doing any of these mutually contradictory choices together.
Kurie & Albin (2007)
ethical dilemma or a moral dilemma situation whereby a person has to make a decision. Among competing alternatives, which is the right (ethical) alternative and which is the best
Figar & Dordevic, (2016)
refers to a situation that
causes an organization to respond
negatively or positively to an ethical issue
that affects staff, shareholders, and society,
as well as corporate ethics and customers. It includes also the leaders’ ethical actions in preserving financial reporting integrity.
ORGANIZATIONAL ETHICAL OR MORAL
DILEMMA
pertains to a
situation where individuals confront with a
number of factors such as peer pressure,
personal financial position, an economic and
social status which may influence all
individual ethical standards.
INDIVIDUAL MORAL DILEMMA