The Science of Morality
... I did something spectacular; I just saw someone who needed help. I did what I felt was right.” ...
... I did something spectacular; I just saw someone who needed help. I did what I felt was right.” ...
chapter 5. cultural relativism.
... problems would be impossible – in fact, a discussion of ethical differences between varying cultures would be superfluous and morality in the international or intercommunitarian sense would to a large extent become irrelevant. People generally believe that some fair and justified compromise can be r ...
... problems would be impossible – in fact, a discussion of ethical differences between varying cultures would be superfluous and morality in the international or intercommunitarian sense would to a large extent become irrelevant. People generally believe that some fair and justified compromise can be r ...
Handout
... subjects are the just and the unjust, the beautiful and the ugly, the good and the bad. Are these not the subjects of difference about which, when we are unable to come to a satisfactory decision, you and I and other men become hostile to each other whenever we do? Critical thinking matters most on ...
... subjects are the just and the unjust, the beautiful and the ugly, the good and the bad. Are these not the subjects of difference about which, when we are unable to come to a satisfactory decision, you and I and other men become hostile to each other whenever we do? Critical thinking matters most on ...
Principles & Practice of Sport Management
... between right and wrong or two opposing choices. • Social practices depend on people upholding certain baseline values. • Morals seen as coming from higher order or common sense • Many moral values in society are codified in laws, but moral behavior cannot always be legislated and people cannot be f ...
... between right and wrong or two opposing choices. • Social practices depend on people upholding certain baseline values. • Morals seen as coming from higher order or common sense • Many moral values in society are codified in laws, but moral behavior cannot always be legislated and people cannot be f ...
Ethics - Pennsylvania State University
... • Do what produces greatest good for the greatest number of people – Monetary costs and benefits – Human welfare – Pleasure or happiness ...
... • Do what produces greatest good for the greatest number of people – Monetary costs and benefits – Human welfare – Pleasure or happiness ...
Lecture Notes URL
... Sartre and Camus are the two most important French Existentialists (there were many others, but this is when the philosophy gets a name) Did not believe that there is any “essential nature”. Believed that our “nature” is constructed by the choices that we make ...
... Sartre and Camus are the two most important French Existentialists (there were many others, but this is when the philosophy gets a name) Did not believe that there is any “essential nature”. Believed that our “nature” is constructed by the choices that we make ...
Lecture
... The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unha ...
... The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unha ...
REVIEW OF MORAL THEORY
... obligation shall be service to the public. The competent and timely delivery of quality care within the bounds of the clinical circumstances presented by the patient, with due consideration being given to the needs and desires of the patient, shall be the most important aspect of that obligation. Pr ...
... obligation shall be service to the public. The competent and timely delivery of quality care within the bounds of the clinical circumstances presented by the patient, with due consideration being given to the needs and desires of the patient, shall be the most important aspect of that obligation. Pr ...
YourLifeinChrist PowerPoint Chapter 2
... Ask the following question: Would I be willing to allow everyone in a similar situation to act this way? ...
... Ask the following question: Would I be willing to allow everyone in a similar situation to act this way? ...
Search out the Facts Intention
... Ask the following question: Would I be willing to allow everyone in a similar situation to act this way? ...
... Ask the following question: Would I be willing to allow everyone in a similar situation to act this way? ...
Right Reason in Action
... Ask the following question: Would I be willing to allow everyone in a similar situation to act this way? ...
... Ask the following question: Would I be willing to allow everyone in a similar situation to act this way? ...
Christian_Ethics_NML_and_Situation_Ethics_1_
... okay to save a family from starving. Fletcher provides guidance and criteria with the 4 working principles and 6 fundamental principles It was described by Bishop Robinson as an ‘ethic for man coming of age’ which means we can be trusted to assess dilemmas and come to our decisions using Agape rathe ...
... okay to save a family from starving. Fletcher provides guidance and criteria with the 4 working principles and 6 fundamental principles It was described by Bishop Robinson as an ‘ethic for man coming of age’ which means we can be trusted to assess dilemmas and come to our decisions using Agape rathe ...
Call to Faith - OSV Curriculum
... —See National Directory for Catechesis, 42 Catholics Believe We are free to choose, responsible for our choices, and guided in our moral decision making. God made us with a free will, an intellect, and a soul, and our conscience works with these gifts so that we can choose to do good and avoid sin ...
... —See National Directory for Catechesis, 42 Catholics Believe We are free to choose, responsible for our choices, and guided in our moral decision making. God made us with a free will, an intellect, and a soul, and our conscience works with these gifts so that we can choose to do good and avoid sin ...
Glosario Etica
... one whose will is determined by something outside of the person, such as overwhelming emotions. Etymologically, heteronomy goes back to the Greek words for "other" and "law." ...
... one whose will is determined by something outside of the person, such as overwhelming emotions. Etymologically, heteronomy goes back to the Greek words for "other" and "law." ...
An ethical question that arose with special force during the Gulf War
... interest, one may also regard victory as impossible, or not worth the attendant moral, economic, and political costs. Second, one cannot always equate the good of one’s country with victory in war. Someone might believe that her country would be better off by ending the war. Third, even if success i ...
... interest, one may also regard victory as impossible, or not worth the attendant moral, economic, and political costs. Second, one cannot always equate the good of one’s country with victory in war. Someone might believe that her country would be better off by ending the war. Third, even if success i ...
Meta-Ethics - Este blog no existe
... moral truths or principles are knowable independently from experience, by reason alone. Empiricism: is the view that our knowledge of moral truths or principles depends on experience, would that be human nature (naturalism) or individual opinions (subjectivism) or social conventions (conventionalism ...
... moral truths or principles are knowable independently from experience, by reason alone. Empiricism: is the view that our knowledge of moral truths or principles depends on experience, would that be human nature (naturalism) or individual opinions (subjectivism) or social conventions (conventionalism ...
Lawerence Kohlberg:
... targeted 29 women who were receiving pregnancy and abortion counseling. Gilligan argued that pregnancy and birth was an area in women’s lives in which they could emphasize choice, yet it still was an intimate area to which they could relate to. Level 1: Orientation to Personal Survival, focuses sole ...
... targeted 29 women who were receiving pregnancy and abortion counseling. Gilligan argued that pregnancy and birth was an area in women’s lives in which they could emphasize choice, yet it still was an intimate area to which they could relate to. Level 1: Orientation to Personal Survival, focuses sole ...
is there a moral code regardless of time and place?
... to be morally good it is not enough that it should conform to the moral law, but it must also be done for the sake of the law". "Moral law is the norm of the action not of the content!" he says. (Benjamin, Walter 2013) So if you try to control by putting as many norms as possible, ultimately you can ...
... to be morally good it is not enough that it should conform to the moral law, but it must also be done for the sake of the law". "Moral law is the norm of the action not of the content!" he says. (Benjamin, Walter 2013) So if you try to control by putting as many norms as possible, ultimately you can ...
IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS)
... Managerial Ethics that is due for publication later this year categorically states that Indian managers are very consequentlist in their approach to the ethical dilemma. It is therefore only proper for us to take a similar position since the readership of this journal is professional in nature. If w ...
... Managerial Ethics that is due for publication later this year categorically states that Indian managers are very consequentlist in their approach to the ethical dilemma. It is therefore only proper for us to take a similar position since the readership of this journal is professional in nature. If w ...
Week 2 – Rights and Relativism
... false), but rather prescribe action, i.e., tell us to do some specific thing, instead of telling us how things are. Meta-Ethics…. Relativism. Waluchow, pgs 65 – 71. Many believe that because of the lack of consensus on moral matters across cultures and between individuals, “there are no universal, g ...
... false), but rather prescribe action, i.e., tell us to do some specific thing, instead of telling us how things are. Meta-Ethics…. Relativism. Waluchow, pgs 65 – 71. Many believe that because of the lack of consensus on moral matters across cultures and between individuals, “there are no universal, g ...
Simone de Beauvoir
... advantages and disadvantages to every state of life, and where we put the emphasis says more about us than it does about that state of life! ...
... advantages and disadvantages to every state of life, and where we put the emphasis says more about us than it does about that state of life! ...
Today`s 1st Topic: The Challenge of Cultural Relativism
... Five Features of Cultural Relativism 1. Different societies have different moral codes. 2. (a) The "good" is determined by society; (b) an act is "right" if it is allowed by the guiding ideals of the society in which it is performed, and "wrong" if it is forbidden by those ideals. 3. There is no ob ...
... Five Features of Cultural Relativism 1. Different societies have different moral codes. 2. (a) The "good" is determined by society; (b) an act is "right" if it is allowed by the guiding ideals of the society in which it is performed, and "wrong" if it is forbidden by those ideals. 3. There is no ob ...
ETHICS LAST CLASS
... WE MAY AGREE This is important. If we first determine what we do agree upon. We do this by asking questions. We may find that when we eliminate those things we agree upon We can more easily focus on the real problem or issue. ...
... WE MAY AGREE This is important. If we first determine what we do agree upon. We do this by asking questions. We may find that when we eliminate those things we agree upon We can more easily focus on the real problem or issue. ...
Kant`s Ethical Theory
... moral rules rather than following the dictates of some authority or other—e.g., government, society, or even God. Since our maxims must be universalizable, in giving ourselves those moral rules, we are, in effect, legislating for everyone else as well. Objections to Kant’s Ethical Theory 1. It is ...
... moral rules rather than following the dictates of some authority or other—e.g., government, society, or even God. Since our maxims must be universalizable, in giving ourselves those moral rules, we are, in effect, legislating for everyone else as well. Objections to Kant’s Ethical Theory 1. It is ...