MIDTERM REVIEWER Flashcards
a set of codes that an individual uses to guide their behavior; same as “moral standards.”; a way of looking at ethical issues in a systematic manner.
Ethical Framework
5 Ethical Frameworks
Natural Law
Virtue Ethics
Deontological/Duty Ethics
Utilitarian
Love and Justice Framework
Who made Natural law?
St. Thomas Aquinas
Natural law is the __________ as far as it is made known by ____________
eternal law, human reason
Virtue Ethics is made by?
Aristotle
the golden mean; mean between two extremes.
virtue
4 cardinal virtues
courage, wisdom, temperance, justice
in virtue ethics, who is an ethical person?
the one who developed good character
questions in virtue ethics
What kind of person are you becoming?
Do you like the person youre becoming?
An ethical framework where obligation is expected and a duty-based approach that is based on universal principles
Deontological/Duty based ethics
Who made the duty based ethhics?
Immanuel Kant
What are the universal priciples?
honesty, fairness, justice and respect for persons or property.
Categorical Imperative #1
Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
- an action will become a universal law
Categorical Imperative #2
Act so that you can treat humanity, wheter in your own person or in that as another, always as an end and never as means to an end.
a form of consequentialism; ethical has good consequences, that is, the one that gives pleasure and happiness as a consequence.
Utilitarian/Consequentialist/Teleological
