Week 2: Ethical Theory and Critical Thinking Flashcards
What are the two kinds of Ethics?
Descriptive, Prescriptive
What is Descriptive Ethics
-describe the state of affairs of a group and what they do about questions of right and wrong
-not judging the rightness or wrongness of these actions, simply describing them in detail to understand the context
True or False: Morality Can mean “the view of right and wrong shared by a group of people at a certain time and place.”
True
True or False: Prescriptive ethics is usually just ethics
True
True or False: Prescriptive ethics has a justified reasoned explanation
False-judges as good or bad no reason
What equals an ethical prescription
foundational concepts (meta-ethics) + facts/evidence/context + a theory
Meta-ethics
ethics not about ethical issues (theory, not application
True or False: Meta-ethics takes place outside ethics
True
What is Realism?
universal ethical Truth (facts) exist outside of the mind (the truth is “real” – hence “realism”)
What is Anti-Realism
denies that universal ethical Truth exists. Ethics are subjects or products of humans in certain places and times, and socially-constructed – not objectively real or universal.
What does Health Sciences deal with
Matters of fact & matters of value
Fact
-What is or is not/what was or will be factually the case
Value
What should or should not/what ought or ought not be done
True or False: you can disprove value
False
True or False: statements of value come with statement of truth or falsity
False
