ETHICAL SCHOOL OF THOUGHTS PART B Flashcards
(46 cards)
Established by Immanuel Kant, a German thinker
KANT’S ETHICS
First appeared in his WHAT work?
“Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals.”
focuses on duty or obligation
KANT’S ETHICS
deontologism/intuitionism
duty or obligation
Morality is exclusively within the human personality
KANT’S ETHICS
Morality is a matter of intent, motive, and will.
KANT’S ETHICS
All of your actions are mainly your responsibility
KANT’S ETHICS
one acts morally if and only one does whatever one is obliged to do.
KANT’S ETHICS
Act done in accord with duty and act done from a sense of duty
KANT’S ETHICS
non-moral acts are those who do not have?
moral sense
Humans should be treated as an end and not as a mean.
KANT’S ETHICS
This implies that an action can be done irrespective of the results.
Categorical imperative
The concept of an autonomous will.
KANT’S ETHICS
Two types of duties exist
perfect and imperfect
Established by William David Ross, and Aristotelian philosopher
ROSS’ ETHICS
Rightness of an action is not determined by its
consequences
ROSS’ ETHICS
This school of thought viewed deontology as rigid and insensitive in some cases. Moreover, deontological precepts sometimes conflict each other.
ROSS’ ETHICS
This school of thought viewed deontology as rigid and insensitive in some cases. Moreover, deontological precepts sometimes conflict each other.
ROSS’ ETHICS
moral rules serves as only a guideline and should not be absolute or inflexible.
ROSS’ ETHICS
Rightness and goodness are the only moral properties.
ROSS’ ETHICS
Absolute rules are often insensitive to the consequences of an act.
ROSS’ ETHICS
Nonmoral properties need to be ascertained (why/what)
ROSS’ ETHICS
greater balance of rightness over wrongness
PRIMA FACIE DUTY
There is only one what duty?
prima facie duty