Intro to ethics Flashcards
relativism
The view that moral judgements vary according to the social context in which they are made
virtue
a morally good or admirable quality in a person e.g courage
virtuous
morally good or possessing many virtues
Where does ethic trace its origins to?
Ancient Greece
What are the three levels of ethics?
Normative, meta-ethics and applied ethics
What is meta-ethics?
Meta-ethics examines the meaning of moral language and moral judgements. It is a second order ethics
What are the types of questions meta-ethics asks?
What does good mean? How can we we know what is right and what is wrong? Are there any objective moral standards?
What is normative ethics?
Ask key ethical questions It is also known as a first order ethics
What questions does normative ethics ask?
What actions are right and wrong? How can we live a morally good life?
What is applied ethics?
It seeks to apply normative ethical theories to specific real-world problems.
Types of normative ethical theory?
Deontological ethics, Consequentialists ethics and Virtue ethics
What is deontological ethics
