Chapter 1 Flashcards
(42 cards)
The word ethics comes from the Greek ethos means
customs or habits.
Ethics is also often called
moral philosophy.
The word moral is from the Latin mores means
customs or habits.
______ means the science of customs or habits of society.
Ethics
_________ refers to customs, ethics extend to mean habitual conduct or character.
Morals or morality
Morality deals with our _______ and ethics with our _______.
1 doing
2 reasoning
‘the science of rightness and wrongness of character and conduct.’
Ethics
2 Types of Ethics
1 Normative ethics
2 Metaethics
question the good or bad of an action.
Normative ethics
dig into the morality of ethical claims.
Metaethics
Normative ethics or Metaethics
Is it wrong to kill one person to save many lives?
Normative ethics
Normative ethics or Metaethics
It is wrong to kill.
Metaethics
True or False
The Learning of ethics does not guarantee morality on the part of the person’s concrete and practical conduct and behavior.
True
True or False
Morality provides certain principles guidelines as to what is good and bad, right and wrong in human conduct.
False: Ethics
True or False
Morality is the study of CHOICES people make regarding right and wrong, good or bad since many of us face several ethical choices in the course of our lives.
False: Ethics
True or False
Ethics is not purely intellectual exercise
True
True or False
Knowing what is right without changing the way we believe morally is useless knowledge.
True
Is legality is identical with morality?
No.
legality is not identical with morality.
What is legal is not always moral. At other times, what is moral is not always legal.
Difference between Ethics and religion?
Ethics as a philosophical discipline solely relies on natural reason, logic and experience.
Religion on the other hand, relies primarily and mainly on supernatural reason, that is divine revelation of divine authority.
Material Object of Ethics is the __________
Human Conduct or Human Act.
Formal Object of ethics in its investigation is the
morality or the moral rectitude of human act or human conduct.
Divisions of Ethics (2)
1 General Ethics
2 Special or Applied Ethics
mainly deals with the morality of human acts and specific determinants of morality.
General Ethics
essentially applies the specific and fundamental norms and principles of General Ethics in various specific areas of human life and activity, both in the individual and social domain.
Special or Applied Ethics