ETHICS Flashcards
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it is meant to set orders; it is meant to help grow in freedom, to grow in ability to chooses and do what is good for u and others.
RULES
he state the ancient sages “no-more rules, no-more laws, because people discern what is right or good and do what is right or good without thinking or a rule or law
Confucius, Lao Tzu
it comes from the Greek word “ethos” meaning custom
ETHICS
it deals with morality; branch of philosophy deals with moral standards, inquires about the rightness or wrongness of human behavior or the goodness or badness of personality, trait or character
ETHICS
an adjective describing a human act as either ethically right or wrong, or qualifying a person, personality, character, as either ethically good or bad.
Moral
a study of the morality of human acts and moral agents, what makes an act obligatory and what makes a person accountable.
ETHICS
it is a norms or prescriptions that serve as the frameworks for determining what ought to be done or what is right or wrong action, what is good or bad character.
MORAL STANDARDS
it is either consequences standards or non-consequence standards
MORAL STANDARDS
This depend on results, outcome. An act that results in the general welfare, in the greatest good of the greatest number, is moral. To take part in a project that results in the improvement of the majority of people is, therefore, moral.
CONSEQUENCE STANDARDS
it is based on the natural law. Natural law is the law of God revealed through human reason; based on good will or intention, and on a sense of duty. Respect for humanity, treatment of the other as a human person, an act that is moral, springs from a sense of duty, a sense of duty that you wish will apply to all human persons.
NON-CONSEQUENCE STANDARDS
This are social rules, demands of etiquette and good manners. They are guides of action which should be followed as expected by society
NON-MORAL STANDARDS
non-moral standards or rules are called—– in sociology
FOLKWAYS
Non-compliance w/ moral standards causes a sense of guilt
TRUE
Non-compliance with non-moral standards may only cause shame or embarrassment
TRUE
it is teleological from tele which means end, result or consequence
CONSEQUENCE
it states that an act is right or wrong depending on the consequences of the act, that is, the good that is produced in the world
CONSEQUENCE STANDARD
it states that the rightness or wrongness of a rule depends on the consequences or the good that is produced in following the rule
CONSEQUENCE STANDARD
the rightness or wrongness of an action or rule depends on sense of duty, natural law, virtue and the demand of the situation or circumstances
Not-only-consequence standard
this are deontological moral standards because their basis for determining what is right or wrong does not depend on consequences but on the natural law and virtue
Natural law and virtue ethics
they are inclined to consider deontology, be it rule or act deontology, as the better moral standard because it synthesizes or includes all the other theory of norms
Rosen and Garner
they are believers in God’s existence, moral standards are commandments of God revealed to man through prophets
THEISTS
For them, God is not the source of morality. Moral standards are based on the wisdom of sages like Confucius or philosophers like Immanuel Kant
non-theists
He taught the moral standard “Do unto others what you like others to do unto you”
Confucius
He stated “Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”
Immanuel Kant, the German philosopher
