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SOCIAL PROF - L1
Ethics and Morality
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| who once observed that "the unexamined life is not worth living," must be regarded as one of the greatest teachers of ethics. | Socrates |
| one of the world's best known and most widely read and studied philosophers. He was the student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle, and he wrote writings on ethics in the middle of the fourth century B.C.E. in ancient Greece. | Plato |
| "theory" of right action and the greater good "SYSTEMATIC STUDY" of the underlying principles of morality | Ethics |
| "PRACTICES" rightness or wrongness of human action "prescriptive" tells us what we ought to do and exhorts us to follow then right way | Morality |
| seeks to set norms or standards that REGUALTES RIGHT AND WRONG or good and bad conduct. | Normative Ethics (PRESCRIPTIVE) |
| aims to understand the NATURE AND DYNAMICS OF ETHICAL PRINCIPLES and the way we learn and ACQUIRE moral beliefs. | Metaethics (DESCRIPTIVE) |
| ACTUAL APPLICATION of the ethical or moral theories for the purpose of deciding which ethical or moral actions are appropriate in a given situation | Applied Ethics |
| The act of the officer is morally wrong | METAETHICS |
| It is the right thing to do in this particular situation | NORMATIVE ETHICS |
| The police officer is just doing his best to fulfill his duty | APPLIED ETHICS |
| Is the theory that there are NO UNIVERSAL NORMS of right and wrong | Relativism |
| holds that each person decides right and wrong for HIMSELF OR HERSELF | Subjective relativism |
| is the ethical theory that the meaning of "right" and "wrong" rests with a SOCIETYS actual moral guidelines. | Cultural relativism |
| By allowing each person to DECIDE right and wrong FOR HIMSELF or herself, subjective relativism makes no moral distinction between the actions of different people. | subject relativist |
| is the ethical theory that the meaning of "right" and "wrong" rests with a society's actual moral guidelines. | Cultural Relativism |
| is cow urine from India. Drinking it has been practiced for thousands of years, and it is usually consumed for therapeutic purposes as Ayurvedic medicine with claimed health benefits | Gomutra |
| That means you use your own culture as the CENTER AND EVALAUTE other cultures based on it. | ethnocentrism! |
| is based on the idea that good actions are those ALLIGNED WITH THE WILL OF GOD and bad actions are those contrary to the will of God. | Divine Command Theory |
| is the philosophy that each person should focus exclusively on his or her SELF INTEREST. does not prohibit acting to help someone else, but assisting another is the right thing to do if and only if it is in the helper's own long-term best interest. | Ethical Egoism |
| the name given to the ethical theory of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). | Deontology or Kantianism |
| The moral value of an action depends upon the UNDERLYING MORAL RULE What makes a moral rule appropriate? | Deontology or Kantianism |
| based upon the principle of utility, also called the Greatest Happiness Principle. | Utilitarianism |
| proposed a theory that is in SHARP CONTRAST to Kantianism. | Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill |
| Utilitarian principle should be applied to a particular act in a PARTICULAR SITUATION OR CIRCUMSTANCE. | Act Utilitarianism (INDIVIDUAL ACTIONS) |
| The principle at issue should be used to test moral rules, and then such rules can be UTILIZED IN JUDGING what is right and wrong under the circumstance. | Rule of Utilitarianism (GENERAL RULES) |
| An act is morally right if it conforms to a justified MORAL RULE. | Rule of Utilitarianism (GENERAL RULES) |
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