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Unit 1 Flashcards

1
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Deals with deeper issues in life

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Ethics

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2
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Ethymology og ethics: Greek word meaning custom and habit

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Ethos

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3
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He said “capacity to think critically about moral values”

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Larry Churchill

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4
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Determinung grounds or bases for a specific set of values

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Ethics

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5
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Things we give importance

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Values

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Judgement of personal approval or dissaproval that we made about what we see, hear, and smell or taste.

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Aesthetics

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7
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Greek word of aesthetics meaning sense or feeling

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Aesthesis

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8
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Proper way of doing things

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Technique / Technical

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9
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Concerned with right and wrong actions maintained by the society to which we belong

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Etiquette

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10
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Meaning or context of words is being subject to different interpretations

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Usage of negation “not”

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11
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It is a word used to oppose in a neutral manner

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Ammoral

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12
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Intellectual discipline belonging to human philosophy (professional ethics)

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Ethics

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13
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Refer to specific beliefs or attitudes people have

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Morals

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14
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Discipline of studying and underdtanding behavior and ideal ways of thinking

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Ethics

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15
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Make moral valuations without judgement either for or against

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Descriptive Study of Ethics

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16
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A subjective study based on own opinion and analysis

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Normative Study of Ethics

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17
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Situations that are sources of inconclusive debate

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Moral Issue

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18
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What to act and what to perform for you to decide

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Moral Decision

19
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Making an assessment on the actions or behavior of someone

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Moral Judgement

20
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Choosing between two goods or between the lesser of two evils

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Moral Dilemma

21
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Rationally established grounds by which one justifies and maintains her moral decisions and judgement

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Principle

22
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Systematic attempt to establish the validity of maintaining certain moral principles

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Moral Theory

23
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Interconnected ideas and structure where we evaluate our reasons

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Framework

24
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We can reconsider, clarify, modify and strengthen our principles

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Importance

25
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A source of authority that ones guide to ethical behavior

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Law

26
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Enforced by way of a system of sanctions administered through various sanctions and institutions

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Law

27
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Different rules and regulation put forward by an authority that requires compliance

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Positive Law

28
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Ethically acceptable or unacceptable is relative or dependent to one’s culture

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Cultural Relativism

29
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Done in moral philosophy or theology

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Normative Study of Ethics

30
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Prescribes what we ought to maintain as our standards or bases for moral valuation

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Normative Study of Ethics

31
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Reasons we give to decide or to judge and the basis of action

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Reasoning

32
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Example of basis of action

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Punishment or reward, principle

33
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Sources of Authority

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Law, Religion, Culture

34
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Has a benefit of providing an objective standard that is obligatory and applicable to all

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Law

35
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It cannot tell us what to pursue, but only what to avoid

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Law

36
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Constrains us from performing act that we are not supposed to do

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Prohibitive nature of law

37
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“One is obliged to God in all things, as a foundation for ethical values.”

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Divine Command

38
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The customs, arts, social intitutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group

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Culture

39
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He identifies the problems in cultural relatuvism

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James Rachels

40
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Three theories in ethics that center on the self

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Subjectivism, Psychological Egoism, Ethical Egoism

41
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Individual thinking person (the subject) is at the heart of all moral valuations

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Subjectivism

42
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The underlying dynamic behind all human actions as a matter of pursuit of self-interest

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Psychological Egoism

43
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It does not suppose that all our actions are already inevitably self-serving

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Ethical Egoism

44
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Prescribes that we make our own ends, our own ends, interests as our single overriding concern

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Ethical Egoism

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