Ethics Flashcards
(28 cards)
What do normative ethical theories seek to make?
Rules for us to follow
Define
A priori and a posteriori
The idea humans can have knowledge without it begin based on past experiences
The idea humans gain knowledge through there experiences
Define
Innatism
Tabula rasa
The idea humans are born with prior knowledge and personality’s
Th idea where all born as blankslates and learn from others
Define teleology
Idea an action is only good if it has a positive outcome
Define deontology
The idea an action is only good if it fulfils good actions and intentions
What is meant by normative
Type of theory that rules how we should behave
For example/ don’t kill
Define imutaltion
Unchanging
Define telos
Means purpose or outcome
What is the meaning of ethnocentric
Seeing everything through the eyes of your culture
Someone who has a fixed unchanging truths on ethics can be described as a what?
Absoultist
What is a relativist?
Someone who believes humans make up moral goods and bands so nothing is fixed
Who is St Thomas aquinas? What’s is religion, centenary, theory
A Roman Catholic Christian philosopher in the 13th century who came up with natural moral law
Who did aquinas look up to and what did he think of humans tried to achieve?
Aristotle
Believed all humans tried to do good and avoid evil and goal was to complete fellowship with god
If aquinas was alive now would he be a denotoligst or teleoligist
He would be classed as a denotolgst
Name the 5 primary precepts
Live in an ordered society
Educate the children
Worship god
Self preservation and protect the innocent
Reproduction
What are the 4 natural laws identified by aquinas
Natural, divine, human, eternal
What are the primary precepts
5 ideas aquinas beleived that made somthing good and that humans should follow
What is synderisis
Idea all humans try to achieve good and avoid evil
Believed by aquinas
What is a real good
An action which is good without other intentions
What is an apparent good?
A action that humans believe are good
For an action to be a real good what does it need to have
A good exterior and interior
(Good action and intention)
St aqunias also claimed we should follow seven virtus
Name 4
Platos virtudes (cardinal) prudence, temperance,Justina,courage
St Paul’s virtudes faith,hope,charity
Define prudence
Thinking before you speak
What is the doctrine of double effect?
As long as an intention and action is good an unintended consequence can not make this no longer a real good as long as it’s proportional
For example giving a patient drugs to help heal there pain but a side effect of them dying quicker is not make the doctor evil and cannot be blamed