Week 2: Ethical Theory and Critical Thinking Flashcards
What are the two kinds of Ethics?
Descriptive, Prescriptive
What is Descriptive Ethics
-describe the state of affairs of a group and what they do about questions of right and wrong
-not judging the rightness or wrongness of these actions, simply describing them in detail to understand the context
True or False: Morality Can mean “the view of right and wrong shared by a group of people at a certain time and place.”
True
True or False: Prescriptive ethics is usually just ethics
True
True or False: Prescriptive ethics has a justified reasoned explanation
False-judges as good or bad no reason
What equals an ethical prescription
foundational concepts (meta-ethics) + facts/evidence/context + a theory
Meta-ethics
ethics not about ethical issues (theory, not application
True or False: Meta-ethics takes place outside ethics
True
What is Realism?
universal ethical Truth (facts) exist outside of the mind (the truth is “real” – hence “realism”)
What is Anti-Realism
denies that universal ethical Truth exists. Ethics are subjects or products of humans in certain places and times, and socially-constructed – not objectively real or universal.
What does Health Sciences deal with
Matters of fact & matters of value
Fact
-What is or is not/what was or will be factually the case
Value
What should or should not/what ought or ought not be done
True or False: you can disprove value
False
True or False: statements of value come with statement of truth or falsity
False
Two Varieties of statements of value and what are they
- Aesthetic (to do with senses)
- Moral (the value you put on questions and actions in terms of right or wrong)
What are Tensions
those disagreements that exist even between people who have the same ethical orientation (they agree on method).
