Module 1 - Ethics, Mores, and Values Flashcards
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It is a set of fundamental beliefs, values, assumptions, that are inculcated through time
Ethics
An activity if reflection which involves questioning, examining, and analysing our fundamental beliefs
Ethics
A reconstructed body of beliefs framed in a more systematic and comprehensive manner
Ethics
The systematic questioning and critical examination of the underlying principles of morality
Ethics
A set f standards that determine the rightness or wrongness of an act
Morality
Pertains to norms or standards of goodness and the rightness/wrongness of an act
Normative
Examines the presuppositions, meanings, and justifications of ethical concepts and principles
Meta-ethics
The notion of what is right and true in a tradition or society
Folkways
When you see your own group as the center on everything, and all others are scaled and rated with reference to your group
Ethnocentrism
A free moral agent in analysing, choosing, and valuing what she considers as the most important when she makes her choices
Individual
Controls the behaviour of an individual
Society
Man is condemned to be free
Jean paul sarte
When one is making choices and taking full responsibility for planning his/her life
Freedom
One’s duty to him/herself to exercise freedom as a rational moral being
Obligation
How did morality emerge?
Through self-preservation
Things you set priorities to pursue
Values
When does a value become a moral value?
If it becomes an unlimited priority in its scoped of relevance in our life
4 moral considerations
What are my duties
Will it be for the best
Will i be letting someone down
Its the action required, inclined with my virtues
A standpoint occupied by epistemic agents r knowers concerned with what is true and what they are about to believe as they engage in resolving scientific and metaphysical questions
Theoretical reasoning
Concerned with matters of facts
Theoretical reasoning
Concerned with what they are to do as they confront various practical situations that require them to take a particular course of action
Practical reasoning
Concerned with matters of values
Practical reasoning
3 stages of moral thought
Pre-conventional
Conventional
Post-conventional
3 overlapping kinds of action
Motivational
Explanatory
Normative