Hon Ethics Ch 1 Flashcards
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Ethics
Reasoned and rational study of morality and it’s claims. It goes beyond personal feelings, biases and opinions and instead takes a rational approach to morality
5 points of evaluating case studies (read it over)
- Summarize main problem and setting
- List the possible ways of responding to the problem
- Identify those moral principles and theories that are most directly applicable to the case.
- Identify and justify the one response that you think is morally best.
- Explain why the other possible responses are not as acceptable
Morality
How we should be like and how we should act simply because we are human beings and we owe it to ourselves, others, and the things around us
Moral claims
Serve to guide, regulate, and asses persons and their behavior
Assertions about good and bad
Normative
Refers to a standard or norm by which something can b compared to
Either makes a value claim or prescribes (or prohibits) an action
Moral value claim
States what persons or personal character traits are morally good or bad
Moral prescriptive claim
Assert what sort of acts are right or wrong and what one should or should not do
Descriptive claims
Describes how the world actually is or could be
Truth claims
Make assertions that are either true or false
Universalizable
Can be generalized to hold true for others in similar circumstances
Moral principles
General moral claims that hike for everyone in the same way
Overriding
Moral claims tend to override or take precedence over other kinds of normative claims
Nonmoral normative claims
Normative (value or prescriptive) claims that differ in their purposes and origins from moral claims
Claims of etiquette
Normative claims about acceptable social behavior
Prudential claims
Normative claims that say what would be in our best interest or what would be prudent
Legal claims
Normative claims tht come from civil authority
4 characteristics of moral claims
Normative
Truth claims
Universalizable
Overriding
