ethics intro Flashcards
latin statement that means (Every agent acts for an end).
“Omne agens agit propter finem,”
what statement of the principle of finality which means that every active or efficient cause tends towards an end.
(Every agent acts for an end)
it knows its end not as an end but from necessity, sample, tending towards food
brute
know our end and act with knowledge of our end under the command of reason
man
“Man, being endowed with reason, acts for
the sake of an end. Somewhere along the act and the end lies goodness for no efficient cause
acts for the sake of evil. The reality under this shadow good is called
happiness
it offers us a guide to put order and meaning to our life in
evaluating our human nature, our action, our end and the good in search for real essence of
happiness.
Ethics
what are the 3 things ethics evaluate in search for real essence of happiness
human nature, our action, our end and the good
who said “Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make
ourselves worthy of happiness.”
Immanuel Kant
is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness
Morality
Mos, Moris
custom
is the english term of -Mos, Moris which means custom
Moral
latin of moral
Mos, Moris
latin of philosophy
Philos
english of philos
Philosophy
it means a love
philos
meaning of philos
love
meaning of sophia
wisdom
it means wisdom
sophia
greek word of ethics
ethos
the greek word which means custom
ethos
Philosophical science dealing with human actions
Ethics
it is the systematic study of human actions as they are ordained to their proper end, that is, from the
point of view of their rightness or wrongness, goodness or evilness, moral or immoral as a
means of attaining ultimate happiness which is a consequence of the position of the last end.
Ethics
“Every agent or a man who performs an act acts for the sake of an end which is good. The reality under the shadow good is called happiness.
Socratic Dictum
