Prelims Flashcards
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was taken from the Greek word ‘ethos’ which means ‘customs’, ‘usage’ ‘characteristic’,
Ethics
It is a branch of philosophy that is a philosophical enterprise that investigates and questions the way or the nature of human actions, see if it has a ground so that it supports its own moral claim
Ethics
investigates or studies morality, thus, the term ethics is expressed in various ways of understanding and examining the moral life of the person as it is cited by Beauchamp and Childress (1994).
Ethics
IS NOT JUST ANY ACTION OF MAN, RATHER, AN ACTION THAT IS GEARED TOWARDS WHAT IS CONSIDERED MORAL, NAMELY, HUMAN ACTION.
ETHICS
These are processes that do not require a decision-making action from a person. They happen naturally in the body, without a person being conscious about them.
Acts of Human
neither right or wrong.
Acts of Human
These are actions that require a person to hister conscience.
Human Acts
can be either right or wrong
Human Acts
● breathing
● Looking
● beating of the heart
● Seeing
● perspiration
● Dreaming
● growing of the hair
● Daydreaming
● growing of the nails
● Hearing
● Listening
● Walking
● Sleepwalking
Acts of Human:
● telling the truth
● giving money to the poor
● returning a lost item
Human Acts:
Human acts can be classified:
GOOD ACTION BAD ACTION
Acts of man is considered as:
AMORAL or INDIFFERENT ACTIONS
considerations and questions of etiquette are important facets of human life. But they do not necessarily translate into genuine ethical or moral value.
THE CHOICE OF CLOTHING THAT ONE IS TO WEAR, in general
AESTHETIC VALUATIONS
technique” and “technical” from the Greek word “techne,” commonly employed to denote the correct or proper method of performing tasks
TECHNICAL VALUATIONS
it is important to note that a ____________assessment, representing the right or wrong approach to doing things, might not inherently align with ethical considerations, as illustrated by this image
TECHNICAL VALUATIONS
They involve valuations that we make in a sphere of HUMAN ACTIONS, characterized by certain gravity and concern the human well-being and human life itself.
MORAL VALUATIONS
is an evaluative one, it is a way of generating and FORMULATING PRINCIPLES, RULES, STANDARDS THAT WILL GUIDE HUMAN CONDUCT OR ACTION.
NORMATIVE ETHICS
The former emphasizes any philosophical attempt to formulate and to defend basic moral principles and virtues governing the moral life, thus, it emphasizes ETHICAL THEORIES like natural law theory, utilitarianism, deontology, and virtue ethics etc.
normative ethics
The PRINCIPLES found in normative general ethics that are regarded to be of help to guide an action and are commonly applied to some specific moral problems such as in medicine, nursing and other medical sciences;
applied ethics.
This approach is a non-evaluative one.
NON-NORMATIVE ETHICS
IT SIMPLY CONSIDERS BY KNOWING WHAT IT IS AND DESCRIBES CERTAIN ACTIONS, PRACTICES AND EVENTS.
NON-NORMATIVE ETHICS
It is not expressed by categorizing that is right or that is wrong, rather IT SIMPLY EXPRESSED WHAT IS THE ACTION AND THE WAY AN ACTION WAS DONE.
NON-NORMATIVE ETHICS
simply reports through description and explanation of moral behavior and belief of a person. For example, development by Lawrence Kohlberg the stages of moral
DESCRIPTIVE ETHICS
analyzes the peculiarity of an ethical language, such as ‘ought’, ‘good’, ‘wrong’ or “bad’. It asks the question ‘what is’ and also analyzes the structure of logic and moral reasoning. These are investigated in metaethics. These are not the only forms of nonnormative ethics. There are other forms, such as those that consider the biological bases of moral behavior and the ways in which humans do not differ from animals.
METAETHICS
