GE107 Flashcards

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Assumptions of ethics

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Man is a rational being
Man as free

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Are said to be the formal objects of ethics because they have moral value

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Human acts

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Classification of human acts

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Moral acts and immoral acts

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It controls or influences the internal and external actions of man

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Human will

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A set of standards derived from how you behave, following a particular philosophy, and it can derived from a standard that a person believes should be universal.

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Moral standard

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These are the kinds of actions we believe are morally right and wrong

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Norms

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These are the judgements, in terms of bad, we put on objects

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Values

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Standards about behavior or practices with no serious or immediate effects upon human well-being

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Non moral standards

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It is a conflict in which a moral agent have to choose between two or more actions and have moral reasons for choosing each action

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Moral dilemma

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Occurs in a situation in which individuals could do better if they either changed their strategies or changed the rules being practiced

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Individual dilemma

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It Is all about on how to reconcile inconsistency between individual needs and aspirations on hand and the collective purpose of the organization on the other.

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Organizational Dilemma

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An authoritative standard

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Norms

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An idea of how man thinks reality is “real”

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Beliefs

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An assertion or conviction of how one believes that things are the way they are

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Beliefs

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An information and understanding about a subject which person has, or which all people have

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Knowledge

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16
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Standards of behavior that are socially approved but not morally significant

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Folkways

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17
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Strict norms that control moral and ethical behavior

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Mores

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Strict set of guidelines drafted and enacted by people who were given power

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Laws

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Systems of ideas which attempts to explain reality

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Ideology

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Philosophical position that all points of view are equally valid, and that all truth is relative to the individual

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Relativism

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The view that there are no ethical standards that are absolutely true and that apply or should be applied to the companies and people of all societies

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Cultural relativism

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Something is right for the people of companies in one particular society if it accords with their moral standards, and wrong if it violates their moral standards

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Cultural relativism

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Formed by implied behavioural standards that are necessary to live in a harmonious and peaceful society

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Universal Values

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Values that a great many human beings in the vast majority of places and situations, at almost all times, do in fact hold in common, whether consciously and explicitly or expressed in their behaviour.

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Universal Values

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A normative ethical theory that places the focus of right and wrong solely on the outcomes of choosing one actions over other actions

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Utilitarianism

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A moral theory that focuses on the result, or consequences of our actions and treat intentions as irrelevant

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Utilitarianism

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The capacity for consciously making sense of things, applying logic, establishing and verifying facts, and changing or justifying practices institutions, and beliefs based on new or existing information

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Reason

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A principle of justice holding that decisions should be based on objective criteria, rather than on the basis of bias, prejudice, or preferring the benefit to one person over another for improper reasons

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Impartiality

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A process of thinking that uses ideas, memories, emotions, and sensory input

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Reason

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It guides a person’s actions and behaviour

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Will

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The perception of moral and social situations, including the ability to consider possible actions and their repercussions in terms of the people involved

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Ethical Sensitivity

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The consideration of possible alternative actions and the rationale for selecting one or more as best

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Ethical Judgement

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The selection of moral values most relevant in the situation and the commitment to act on that selection

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Ethical Motivation

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The ego strength combined with the psychological and social skills necessary to carry out the selected alternative

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Ethical action

35
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At this level , we do not have a personal code of morality

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Level 1- pre conventional Morality

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Refers to the emotional experiences that individuals have in response to different situations and stimuli

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Nature of feeling

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It can influence an individual’s moral judgement, motivation, and actions

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Feelings

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Refers to the subjective experience of emotions, including their intensity, duration, and qualitative character

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The phenomenology of feelings

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A branch of philosophy that deals with nature, origins, and evaluation of values

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Philosophy

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A philosophical framework that seeks to classify different types of values in order of their importance of worth

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Hierarchy of values

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refer to the principles or standards of behavior that guide individuals and communities in making ethical and moral decisions.

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Moral values

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refers to the process by which individuals evaluate the rightness or wrongness of a particular action or behavior based on their moral beliefs and values.

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Moral judgment

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Involves the idea that each individual’s interest and point of view is equally important.

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Impartiality

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it is the moving of one self and taking concrete means in view of the goal or end which is not yet but which somehow ought to be.

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Action

45
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Morality requires man to act to realize what he must be and what his very being ought to be.

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Freedom

46
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Action can be judge as good or bad right or wrong, which can be classified as the norms of morality, which refers to some ideal of man, an ideal stage of perfection of man, which serves as the ultimate goal and norm.

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Judgement

47
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The law of universality: “Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law, that is: Action is moral in so far as one can say that any man in one’s place should act in the same way.

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Universality

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The state of being bound or required to do or not to do, a categorical imperative. In this sense, the good is universally binding and obligatory on man so that his being is an “ought-to-be” and an “ought to act” in view of his very being. That is the “good”.

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Obligation