ethics Flashcards
is the practical and philosophical science of the morality of human acts or human conduct
Ethics
is the quality of right and wrong in human acts
Morality
where does ethics deal only with
human acts
it means having no moral sense
amoral
it means out of the realm of morality altogether
Nonmoral
a person knowingly violates human moral standards by doing something wrong or by being sad
Immoral
a person may also violate moral standards because he or she has no moral sense
amoral
it can be neither be good nor bad nor do anything right or wrong simply because it does not fall within the scope of morality
Nonmoral
it is only one of the degrees of moral obligations
ought
it is a complicated situation wherein one is torn between choosing one of two goods or choosing between the lesser of two evils
Moral Dilemma
it is a system of codes that gives the world meaning and shapes the behavior of people
culture
right or good is always relative to a particular culture or society
Cultural Relativisim
If society or culture dictates that an act or practice is wrong, then it is indeed wrong.
Ethical Relativism
it emanate from moral character
individual acts
it is formed by individual acts
moral character
he was a moral philosopher and student of child development
Lawrence Kohlberg
one of the best known stories of Kohlberg’s concerns a man called
Heinz
refers any thought, word, deed or omission - comes from a person acting with full knowledge and the exercise of his/her freewill
Human Acts
performed without intervention of intellect and freewill - indeliberate, involuntary, not free, not under one’s control
Acts of Man
it must be backed by good reasons.And it also requires the impartial consideration of each individual’s interest
Reason and impartiality
if we want to discover the truth, we must let our feelings be guided as much as possible by reason
Necessity of Reason
it is the idea that each individual’s interest are equally important; no one should get special treatment
Impartiality
