Environmental ethics
... • What does it mean “to take ethically into consideration”? What does moral standing actually mean? – Is an experience by an animal ever understandable to humans? How do we translate an experience of an animal into human experience? – If holistic entities are intrinsically valuable, how do we take i ...
... • What does it mean “to take ethically into consideration”? What does moral standing actually mean? – Is an experience by an animal ever understandable to humans? How do we translate an experience of an animal into human experience? – If holistic entities are intrinsically valuable, how do we take i ...
Phil 160
... damages the fabric of civil society and morality itself. • The consequences to truth and lies are irrelevant. It is the nature of the action itself that determines its rightness. • If you tell the truth you are not legally (or morally) responsible for what happens as a result, while if you tell a li ...
... damages the fabric of civil society and morality itself. • The consequences to truth and lies are irrelevant. It is the nature of the action itself that determines its rightness. • If you tell the truth you are not legally (or morally) responsible for what happens as a result, while if you tell a li ...
Morality and Ethics (cont. 2)
... Some video clips from other sources may be used, but the source must be clearly indicated. No more than 30% from other sources ...
... Some video clips from other sources may be used, but the source must be clearly indicated. No more than 30% from other sources ...
Chapter 4: Ethics, Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development
... 1. Domain of codified law (legal standard) 2. Domain of ethics (social standard) 3. Domain of free choice (personal standard) An ethical dilemma is a situation in which all alternative choices or behaviours have potentially negative ethical consequences, making it difficult to distinguish right from ...
... 1. Domain of codified law (legal standard) 2. Domain of ethics (social standard) 3. Domain of free choice (personal standard) An ethical dilemma is a situation in which all alternative choices or behaviours have potentially negative ethical consequences, making it difficult to distinguish right from ...
ch03_wcr - University of Delaware
... 2. Judgment process: choosing what to do 3. Decision to act in accordance with the judgment Outcome We hope that the course of action leads to the outcome of a caring response As applied ethicists, should we focus more on the course of action or the outcome? Discuss. ...
... 2. Judgment process: choosing what to do 3. Decision to act in accordance with the judgment Outcome We hope that the course of action leads to the outcome of a caring response As applied ethicists, should we focus more on the course of action or the outcome? Discuss. ...
Kant`s Ethics - Valdosta State University
... o part of what it means to be a rule is that people will follow it, even if they are inclined not to o that is, our imperatives, if they are to be true imperatives, must be categorical (i.e., without qualification) focusing on this, Kant erected a theory designed to capture the categorical nature ...
... o part of what it means to be a rule is that people will follow it, even if they are inclined not to o that is, our imperatives, if they are to be true imperatives, must be categorical (i.e., without qualification) focusing on this, Kant erected a theory designed to capture the categorical nature ...
`Virtue ethics lacks a decision-procedure to help us make moral
... and formation of ethical principles. It attempts to answer a fundamental question in ethics: what sort of person should I be? The argument that virtue ethics has no decision procedure is a fallacious one. Virtue ethics has three decision-making procedures: 1) virtues are demonstrated by consistent v ...
... and formation of ethical principles. It attempts to answer a fundamental question in ethics: what sort of person should I be? The argument that virtue ethics has no decision procedure is a fallacious one. Virtue ethics has three decision-making procedures: 1) virtues are demonstrated by consistent v ...
Part II: There`s more to morality than harm and fairness Central
... is that “culture and psyche make each other up.”10 In other words, you can’t study the mind while ignoring culture, as psychologists usually do, because minds function only once they’ve been filled out by a particular culture. And you can’t study culture while ignoring psychology, as anthropologists ...
... is that “culture and psyche make each other up.”10 In other words, you can’t study the mind while ignoring culture, as psychologists usually do, because minds function only once they’ve been filled out by a particular culture. And you can’t study culture while ignoring psychology, as anthropologists ...
Ethics – Handout 3 Ayer`s Emotivism
... anything more than if I had simply said, ‘You stole that money.’ In adding that this action is wrong, I am not making any further statement about it, I am simply evincing my moral disapproval about it. It is as if I had said, ‘You stole that money,’ in a peculiar tone of horror, or written with the ...
... anything more than if I had simply said, ‘You stole that money.’ In adding that this action is wrong, I am not making any further statement about it, I am simply evincing my moral disapproval about it. It is as if I had said, ‘You stole that money,’ in a peculiar tone of horror, or written with the ...
9 Deontology*
... Act-consequentialism appears very demanding. Given the amount of poverty in the world, maximizing the good would require the better off to make enormous sacrifices to help the very poor. Most people believe that, though they should do something to help those less fortunate, there is nothing wrong wi ...
... Act-consequentialism appears very demanding. Given the amount of poverty in the world, maximizing the good would require the better off to make enormous sacrifices to help the very poor. Most people believe that, though they should do something to help those less fortunate, there is nothing wrong wi ...
Kants ethics and suicide show
... principle behind an action as the maxim. • The Good Samaritan could have been acting on the maxim: Always help those in need when you are likely to be rewarded or Always help those in need when you feel pity or Always help those in need because it is your duty to do so ...
... principle behind an action as the maxim. • The Good Samaritan could have been acting on the maxim: Always help those in need when you are likely to be rewarded or Always help those in need when you feel pity or Always help those in need because it is your duty to do so ...
Week 3
... 8. Consider, imaginatively, whether there are various alternatives other than simply doing or not doing the action, and carry out a similar analysis for each of the other alternative actions. 9. Compare the results of various actions. The action that produces the most good (or least bad, if none pro ...
... 8. Consider, imaginatively, whether there are various alternatives other than simply doing or not doing the action, and carry out a similar analysis for each of the other alternative actions. 9. Compare the results of various actions. The action that produces the most good (or least bad, if none pro ...
Business ethics
... business people should take the social consequences of economic actions into account when making business decisions – There should be a presumption in favor of decisions that have both good economic and good social consequences ...
... business people should take the social consequences of economic actions into account when making business decisions – There should be a presumption in favor of decisions that have both good economic and good social consequences ...
Introduction to the US Constitution and Criminal Justice System
... that your boss was committing tax fraud by not reporting a portion of your company’s revenue to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). You know that this is wrong, but you also know that if you try to stop it that you would be risking your own job. Suppose that you are barely making ends meet as it is, ...
... that your boss was committing tax fraud by not reporting a portion of your company’s revenue to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). You know that this is wrong, but you also know that if you try to stop it that you would be risking your own job. Suppose that you are barely making ends meet as it is, ...
presentation source
... with the facts about human beings and the world as we know them, that best explains our practices, and that accords with principles of fairness that we wholeheartedly endorse, (e.g., deserving praise and reward for complying with moral obligations) is primarily the capacity to determine one’s action ...
... with the facts about human beings and the world as we know them, that best explains our practices, and that accords with principles of fairness that we wholeheartedly endorse, (e.g., deserving praise and reward for complying with moral obligations) is primarily the capacity to determine one’s action ...
Christian Ethics - Choices for life
... • Q: Imagine you are placed in a room with Adolf Hitler when he is only 3 years old. You have a gun, know exactly what he does during World War 2 and will not be charged in any way if you choose to kill him, but at the time he is just an innocent baby, would you kill him? ...
... • Q: Imagine you are placed in a room with Adolf Hitler when he is only 3 years old. You have a gun, know exactly what he does during World War 2 and will not be charged in any way if you choose to kill him, but at the time he is just an innocent baby, would you kill him? ...
Phil 206 2007 - UKZN: Philosophy
... Answer one of the following questions: 1. Critically discuss Kant’s view that there could not be an imperative that commands us “to do what will make us happy” (pp. 81-82 of the Groundwork). 2. Kant says that it might not be possible to identify a single unambiguous example of a moral action. a) Exp ...
... Answer one of the following questions: 1. Critically discuss Kant’s view that there could not be an imperative that commands us “to do what will make us happy” (pp. 81-82 of the Groundwork). 2. Kant says that it might not be possible to identify a single unambiguous example of a moral action. a) Exp ...
MORALITY AND RELIGION IN AFRICAN THOUGHT
... seen in a broader sense than “ethics”, although the margins are diffused. Even in this sense, however, varied traditions occur, for example the “Catholic” tradition of moral philosophy includes what other people would call ethics. “Ethics” refers to the acts of human behaviour informed by moral prin ...
... seen in a broader sense than “ethics”, although the margins are diffused. Even in this sense, however, varied traditions occur, for example the “Catholic” tradition of moral philosophy includes what other people would call ethics. “Ethics” refers to the acts of human behaviour informed by moral prin ...
Meta Ethics - WordPress.com
... Naturalists believe goodness can be measured and translated into facts (about pleasure, happiness, human flourishing). ...
... Naturalists believe goodness can be measured and translated into facts (about pleasure, happiness, human flourishing). ...
Moral reasoning
... • Each of us should exercise care for those with whom we are socially and otherwise related by attending to their needs, wellbeing and desires as seen from their own personal perspective, and by responding positively to the same so as to preserve the values of those relationships; • Ethics of care i ...
... • Each of us should exercise care for those with whom we are socially and otherwise related by attending to their needs, wellbeing and desires as seen from their own personal perspective, and by responding positively to the same so as to preserve the values of those relationships; • Ethics of care i ...
Lecture 4/23: Concluding Thoughts
... their union in any way they choose and consider themselves married whenever they want. Michael Kinsley ...
... their union in any way they choose and consider themselves married whenever they want. Michael Kinsley ...
Ethics – Handout 8 Foot, “What Is Moral Relativism?”
... between different societies are so widespread and irresolvable as to make relativism tempting, why are we so confident that at different times and in different places the judgments are about the same thing? (pp. 186-7) For relativism about a given area of discourse to be plausible, we must be able t ...
... between different societies are so widespread and irresolvable as to make relativism tempting, why are we so confident that at different times and in different places the judgments are about the same thing? (pp. 186-7) For relativism about a given area of discourse to be plausible, we must be able t ...
Human Values and Virtues
... Evolution of Human Values The human values evolve because of the following factors: 1. The impact of norms of the society on the fulfillment of the individual’s needs or desires. 2. Developed or modified by one’s own awareness, choice, and judgment in fulfilling the needs. 3. By the teachings and ...
... Evolution of Human Values The human values evolve because of the following factors: 1. The impact of norms of the society on the fulfillment of the individual’s needs or desires. 2. Developed or modified by one’s own awareness, choice, and judgment in fulfilling the needs. 3. By the teachings and ...
Ethics Theories
... objectivity of moral values and the notion that moral good is part of human nature. Criticisms: Are we really able to read nature? What are considered as moral good have changed through times. Even Aristotle thought that slavery could be justified. Some philosophers depicts human nature as deceitf ...
... objectivity of moral values and the notion that moral good is part of human nature. Criticisms: Are we really able to read nature? What are considered as moral good have changed through times. Even Aristotle thought that slavery could be justified. Some philosophers depicts human nature as deceitf ...
