Investigating an Issue

Question 1

What are ethics?

Answer 1

Set of standards or behaviours that determine how people act in a certain situation

Question 2

What is a consequences-based approach to ethics?

Answer 2

Places central importance on the outcomes of actions

Question 3

What is a duty/rule-based approach to ethics?

Answer 3

Concerned with how people act and the duty that people have to act in a specific way regardless of consequences

Question 4

What is a virtue-based approach?

Answer 4

Person rather than action-based. Consideration on virtue/moral character of the person carrying out the action