Ethics Critical Thinking Moral Dilemma Flashcards
From freek word “ethos” = meaning?
“customs”
“usage”
“character”
A philosophical study of moral judgements
Ethics
Also known as Moral Philosophy
Ethics
it deals with norms or standard of right and wrong/ good and evil applicable to human behavior.
Ethics
Maybe described as a critical __________ on various life situations.
Reflection
into some standard to guide one’s action , or as a tool to undestand a given condition.
Inquiry
it all began with a _____________!!!!
Question
Human by nature are ____________
Inquisitive
it began with investigations and discussions of life’s deepest and most significant question.
Philosophy
Who said that “Wonder is feeling of a philosopher and philosophy begins with wonder”
Socrates
it concerned themselves with the nature and origin of the world.
Pre-Socratic Period (Ancient)
Everything come from water
Thales
Everything come from air
Anaximenes
Everything come from number.
Pythagoras
Everything is in a constant flux(constant changes).
Heraclitus
Change is an illusion,everything is permanent.
Parmenides
their motivation to inquire and understandthe underlying principle of reality as they knew it.
COMMONALITY
Philia
Love
Sophia
Wisdom
Philosophy
Love Of Wisdom
Love
Philia
Wisdom
Sophia -
Love Of Wisdom
Philosophy
who said “This unquenchable desire to know is philosophy.”
PYTHAGORAS, ON PHILOSOPHY
The practice of inquiry ________ from outside of the human person to the human person itself; from being inquiring to being who is subject of inquiry.
SHIFTED
who said “An unexamined life is not worth living.”
- Socrates
who said “An __________ life is not worth living.”
unexamined
“Know __________!”
Thyself!
“Human life is a struggle to live more thoughtfully; to live according to a certain idea or form of what life ought to be.”
PLATO
“Human life is a __________to live more thoughtfully; to live according to a certain idea or form of what ________ ought to be.”
struggle
life
“ULTIMATE HAPPINES CAN BE FOUND IN POLITICAL LIFE”
Plato
PLATO, “ULTIMATE __________CAN BE FOUND IN _____________LIFE”
HAPPINESSPOLITICAL
3 Major Areas of Ethics
Metaethics
Normative Ethics
Ethics of Religion
Examines the validity of standards that make such judgment of right or wrong possible.
META-ETHICS
Cognitivism
Intuitionism
Naturalism
Subjectivism
Meta-Ethics
The study of ethical actions and questions the standards of what is considered morally good or bad.
Normative Ethics
it concerned with question such s why should one be moral and how can one tell what is right or wrong.
Normative Ethics
Consequentialism
Deontological Ethics
Virtue Ethics
Normative Ethics
A method geared towards arriving at a clear meaning of common human issues in everyday life.
Philosophy Inquiry
Problem –> ___________ –> Solution
Thinking
are instances when individuals are confronted with conflicting answers to the question, “what is right?”
Moral dilemmas
defines moral dilemma as a situation in which difficult choice has to be made between two courses of action, either of which entails transgressing a moral principle.
The English Oxford Dictionary
In matters of right and wrong, individualsare expected to have moral principles toguide them in moral _______________.
decision-making.
Conflict typically involves opposing ______, _______, and ______.
values, beliefs, and norms.
__________ is rooted not only in individual; behavior but also in different _____and norms of the _________.
Conflict
values
Norms
What is common to moral dilemmas is __________.
Conflict
an agent regards himself as having moral reasons to do each of two actions, but doing both actions seems to be ethically not possible.
ethical dilemma
(a) the agent is required to do each of two (ormore) actions;
(b) the agent can do each of the actions; but the agent cannot do both (or all) of the actions.
moral dilemma
the agent thus seems condemned to moral failure; no matter what he does, he will do something wrong, or fail to do something that he ought to do.
moral dilemma
_______defines ‘________’ as speaking the truth and paying one’s debts.
Cephalus
Justice
Important Elements in Moral Decision-Making
The act itself is morally _______- or at least _________.
good
indeferrent
