Introduction to Ethics Flashcards
Ethics is derived from:
ethos - custom, habit, disposition GREEK
Study of right and wrong, duty and obligation, moral norms, individual character and responsibility
A branch of philosophy that deals with the standards for evaluating morality of human action
Ethics
The course is about (5)
Good and Bad
Right and Wrong
Obeying Rules
Pursuing Ideals
Developing Character
Deals with the nature of moral judgement, looks at origins of ethicla principles
Meta-ethics
Concerned with the content of moral judgements and the criteria for what is right or wrong
Normative Ethics
Looks at controversial topics like war, animal rights, and capital punishment
Applied ethics
Refers to human conduct and values
Morality
Standards about behavior or practices with no serious effects upon human well-being
Nonmoral standards
Refers to any special code of behavior or courtesy
Etiquette (non-moral)
Statutes, Regulations, Common and Constitutional
Law
Religion is derived from:
Religare (to bind) LATIN
Divine Command Theory
1 Morality originates with God
2 Moral rightness is willed by god, wrongness against
3 Morality is based on divine will
allies with Autonomy thesis : religion is irrelevant for ethics (3)
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ludwig Fuerbach
Sigmund Freud
Moral principle must have these traits (5)
prescriptivity
universalizability
overridingness
publicity
practicability
Practical or action-guiding, nature of morality.
Prescriptivity
