FRAMEWORKS Flashcards
STUDY
an approach to ethics is best characterized by its focus on duties, rights, and moral obligations. Its two main presuppositions are that ethical evaluation primarily concerns the rightness or wrongness of actions and that ethical reasoning should help determine what we ought to do.
DEONTOLOGY
n approach to ethics organized around the idea of human flourishing and human excellence. Its basic assumption is that all human beings share some basic qualities of character, though we vary widely in how much we excel at those qualities and how we express them, and each of us gets better (or worse) at them according to our experiences. It further assumes that human beings are concerned with how to live the good life and that ethics is a subset of what it means to live a full and happy life.
VIRTUE
HONESTY
GENEROSITY
an approach to ethics organized around self-realization in the context of interdependence. Its basic assumption is that human beings exist in a state of mutual reliance on one another (Masolo 2010; Smith-Morris 2020). Although this interdependence includes material goods like shelter and safety, the more significant dimension of our interdependence concerns the many social, spiritual, and psychological goods that can only come from relationships with others. Because we are interdependent, everybody benefits from investing in the common good, or the well-being of the community as a whole
COMMUNITARIANISM
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an approach to ethics organized around the idea of happiness. Is an outcome-based approach to ethics that assumes that human beings are motivated by the desire to be happy. Building on the basic assumption that humans are motivated by happiness, when it comes to determining how we should act, we should first and foremost consider what kinds of actions bring about the most happiness for the greatest number of people. This is known as the principle of utility or the greatest happiness principle.
greatest good for the greatest number of people
UTILITARIANISM
is an approach to ethical reasoning that begins with the notion that human beings are not only or even primarily acting beings but are beings that are constantly reacting—responding—to powers, forces, and events that are beyond our control
RESPONSIBILITY ETHICS
an approach to ethics that aims to repair the ramifications of this long-term exclusion by focusing on the lives, experiences, and concerns of women and other disempowered persons.
FEMINIST ETHICS
an approach to ethics that was derived and adapted from a broader normative framework used across many fields. It aims to create the conditions for people to fulfill their potential, not by celebrating freedom in the abstract but by paying attention to the practical conditions of people’s lives—the actual freedoms, resources and opportunities that are available to them.
CAPABILITY ETHICS
