Ethics Flashcards
It is about matters such as the good thing that we should pursue and the bad thing that we should avoid.
Ethics
How soon will there be pleasure.
Propinquity
Concern with right or wrong action, but those which might be considered not quite grave enough to a discussion on ethics
Etiquette
It is about our subjection to these sovereign masters pleasure and pain.
Utilitarianism
This is from a Greek word “techne” and prefers to a proper way or right way of doing things.
Technical
This is a situations that calls for moral valuation.
Moral issue
This is one when placed in a situation confronted by the choice of what act to perform.
Moral decision
This is a study of ethics reports how people, particularly groups, make their moral valuations without making any judgemental either for or against these evaluations.
Descriptive
This is going beyond the matter of choosing right over wrong, or good over bad, and considering instead the more complicated situation wherein one is torn between choosing one of two goods or choosing the two between the lesser of two evils.
Moral dilemma
Is a guide to an ethical behavior
Law
This does not suppose all our actions are already inevitably self-serving.
Ethical egoism
This is divinity called god, allah, or supreme being commands and one is obliged to obey his/ her creator.
Religion
This is can be spoken of as the discipline of studying and understanding ideal human behavior ideal ways of thinking.
Ethics
This is means “sense” or “feeling” and refers to the judgements of personal approval or disapproval that we make about what we see, hear,smell, or taste.
Aesthetics
This is maybe used to refer specific beliefs or attitudes the people have or to describe acts that people preform.
Moral
Heatings that the principle of utility mass distinguish pleasures qualitatively and not merely quantitatively. MILL
John stuart Mill
He stated that utility refers to the motivation of our actions as guided by our avoidance of pain and our desire for pleasure
Jeremy Bentham
A theory which claims that one’s in behavior are goods and as much as they are directed toward the experience of the greatest pleasure over pain for the greatest number of persons.
Utilitarianism
He stated that we have two sovereign masters.
Jeremy Bentham
What are our two sovereign masters?
Pleasure and pain
This is a study of ethics as is often done in philosophy or moral theology, engages the question. What could or should be considered as the right way of acting? Discussion prescribes what we ought to maintain as our standards or bases for or moral valuation.
Normative
When a person is an observer who makes an assessment on the actions or behavior of someone.
Moral judgment
A person’s fear of punishment or desire for reward can provide him/her a reason for acting in a certain way. It is common to hear someone say i did not cheat on the exam because i was afraid that i might get caught or look after my father in the hospital because i wanted to get higher allowance.
Reasoning
What the three theories about ethics that center on the self and other word senses of the self?
-Subjectivism
- Psychological egoism
- Ethical egoism
Is the recognition that the individual thinking person is at the heart of all moral valuations. She is the one who is confronted with the situation and is burdened with the need to make a decision or judgment. It is leaps to the more radical claim that the individual is the sole determinant of what is morally good or bad, right or wrong.
Subjectivism
A theory that describes the underlying dynamic behind all human actions. As a descriptive theory, it does not direct one to act in any particular way. Instead, it points out that there is already an underlying basis for how one acts. The ego or self has its desires and interests, and all our actions are geared towards satisfying these interest.
Psychological egoism
What is the three sources of authority?
-Law
- Religion
-culture
What is the three kinds of valuation?
-Aesthetics
- Etiquette
-Technical
What is the two ways of study of ethics?
-Descriptive
-Normative
