Ethics and Morality Flashcards
refers to the set of standards an individual person or society uses to judge whether an act is good or bad,whether someone is virtuous or not, or whether we ought to do this or that.
Morality
is sometimes used to refer to one’s set of moral beliefs and practices. Strictly speaking, however, it refers to the discipline that examines the moral standards of an individual or society.
Ethics
Ethical Terms in morality
Moral
Immoral
Amoral
It involves the conscious or deliberate violation of ethical norms and morals established by society, generating social rejection.
Immoral
It refers to adherence to ethical norms and principles that guide human behavior based on values and beliefs.
Moral
It is characterized by the lack of consideration moral awareness in decision-making,without following ethical norms or values.
Immoral
It looks into the nature, meaning, scope, and foundations of moral values, beliefs, and judgments. Examples of metaethicalquestions are: Is morality objective or relative? Is morality based on reason,emotions, intuition, or facts? What are moral persons? What does it mean to be morally accountable?
Metaethics
These refers to standards by which we judge what is good or bad and right or wrong in a non-moral way. Examples of non-moral standards are standards of etiquette by which we judge manners as good or bad, standards we call the law by which we judge something as legal or illegal, and standards of aesthetics by which we judge art as good or rubbish
Non-moral standards
It is concerned with the formulation of moral standards, rules, or principles to determine right from wrong conduct or ways of life worth pursuing.
Normative Ethics
It examines the particular moral issues occurring in both the personal and social spheres. It determines the moral permissibility of actioans and practices in specific areas of human concern like business, medicine, nature, law, sports,and others.
Applied Ethics
are norms that individuals or groups have about the kinds of actions believed to be morally right or wrong, as well as the values placed on what we believed to be morally good or morally bad. Moral standards normally promote “ the good”, that is, the welfare and well-being of humans as well as animals and the environment. Moral standards, therefore, prescribe what humans ought to do in terms of rights and obligations.
Moral Standards
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