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