Week 2 Ethics Flashcards
What are personal beliefs and principles about right/wrong that could be culturally driven?
morality
What is frequently occurring conflict?
ethical issue
Define ethics
Practical discipline that provides rules/guidance about how one should act in the consideration of others
T/F
By following the law you will be morally correct.
False
When you know the right thing to do but something is constraining that from happening.
ethical distress/moral distress
Define ethical dilemma
conflict has 2 morally correct courses of action that cannot both be followed
State 3 ethical approaches
- Descriptive ethics
- Normative ethics
- Metaethics
Ethical approach that identifies what you should do ethically; correct moral principles
Normative ethics
3 ethical theories
- Normative ethics
- virtue of ethics
- ethics of care
What is the descriptive ethical approach? (4 points)
o How people reason and act in different societies and cultures
o Moral beliefs, behaviors, etc.
o Examine society’s perception of right and wrong
o Non-judgmental if society has correct ethical principles
Define metaethics ethical approach
Identifies what is occurring, not what should occur ethically
Most recognized teleological theory
Utilitarianism
2 normative ethics theories
- teleological theory
2. deontological theory
Normative ethical theory says that the end justifies the means
teleological theory
Teleological theory that supports the decision that brings the greatest good to greatest # of people
Utilitarianism