Week 1 Flashcards
Four reasons to study ethics
Lessen danger and prevent possible harm
Protect values
make good ethical decisions
Better at defending moral positions
The study of the nature, origins, and meanings of ethical concepts. Moral terms and what is considered right and wrong.
Metaethics
Epistemology
The study of human knowledge
What is the study of moral philosophy, asks basic questions about the good life, about what is better and worse, about whether there is any objective right or wrong, and how we know it if there is
Ethics
are principles which guide and limit behavior.
Moral principals
What is a prudential reason
One that is practical but not necessarily ethical.
Difference between descriptive and prescriptive claims.
Descriptive explains why it is the way it is, Prescriptive focuses on how it ought to be. Is,ought gap.
Name five things ethics is not
- Personal feelings
- Religious beliefs
- Law of the land
- Societal norms
- Science
6 ethical lenses
- The right lens
- Justice lens
- Utilitarian lens
- Common good lens
- Virtue lens
- The care ethics lens
Five pieces of the ethical frame work for making decisions.
- Identify the ethical issues
- Get the facts
- Evaluate alternatives
- Choose option and test it
- Implement and reflect
Some suggest that the ethical action is the one that best protects and respects the moral rights of those affected
The right lens
considering the idea that each person should be given their due, and what people are due is often interpreted as fair or equal treatment
The Justice lens
a results-based approach, says that the ethical action is the one that produces the greatest balance of good over harm for as many stakeholders as possible.
Utilitarian lens
This approach suggests that the interlocking relationships of society are the basis of ethical reasoning and that respect and compassion for all others—especially the vulnerable—are requirements of such reasoning.
Common good lens
A very ancient approach to ethics argues that ethical actions ought to be consistent with certain ideal virtues that provide for the full development of our humanity.
The virtue lens
