INTRODUCTION TO BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS Flashcards
It is the ethics of life
Bioethics
The Greek word “ethos” means?
Characteristic way of acting
The Latin equivalent is “mos”, “mores” means?
Tradition or custom
This includes cultural mannerisms, religion, politics, laws and social aspirations of a group of people.
Ethos
It refers to those characteristics belonging to man as a rational being, being endowed with intellect and free-will
Ethos
it involves: right or wrong actions, also includes morality, immorality, the positive values or the negative values, also involves the laws of beneficence or the law of benefit and the law of choice
Ethics
True or False:
In the ethos of man as a man:
He is able to distinguish between good and evil, right and wrong, moral or immoral
True
True or False:
In the ethos of man as a man:
He feels within himself an obligation to do what is good and to avoid what is evil.
True
True or False:
In the ethos of man as a man:
He feels himself for his actions, expecting reward or punishments for them.
True
it is defined as the science of the morality of human acts, and because actions reflect the motives of the doer
Ethics
It is the study of human motivation, and ultimately of human rational behavior
ethics
These are those actions performed by man, knowingly and freely
Human Acts
These are also called deliberate, intentional actions, or voluntary actions
Human Acts
It is also differentiated from the so called “acts of man” which are instinctive and involuntary.
Human Acts
It is the quality of human acts by which they are constituted as good, bad or indifferent
Morality
In morality, good is described as?
Moral
In morality, bad is described as?
immoral
In morality, indifferent is described as?
amoral
It is those we do voluntarily
Human acts
It is the standard of morality
Norms
It is the standards or norms of morality ethics or ethics in general
Morality
It is a person who has the habit or inclination to do good
is said to be _________
virtuous
It is the one who has the habit of doing wrong is _________
vicious
True or False:
Human Acts are good when they agree with the dictates of reason
True