Moral Reasoning and Ethical Theories
... • A theory about morality that emphasizes the limitations of abstract rules (“anti-theory”) • Not to be confused with crass expediency • Good consequences emphasized, but so too are rights, duties and virtues within a given context • Flexibility emphasized • Like act-utilitarianism, there is danger ...
... • A theory about morality that emphasizes the limitations of abstract rules (“anti-theory”) • Not to be confused with crass expediency • Good consequences emphasized, but so too are rights, duties and virtues within a given context • Flexibility emphasized • Like act-utilitarianism, there is danger ...
Moral Reasoning
... professionals to have the ability to critically analyze [ethical ]situations. After all, if the rules are there, then it just seems a matter of following them. It is extremely important to realize, however, that acting ethically in the professions is not so simple. Adopting a simplistic approach wil ...
... professionals to have the ability to critically analyze [ethical ]situations. After all, if the rules are there, then it just seems a matter of following them. It is extremely important to realize, however, that acting ethically in the professions is not so simple. Adopting a simplistic approach wil ...
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 ...
PHILOSOPHY_6
... various normative theories recommending what ought to be considered in determining whether an action is right or wrong. The first set of theories is called teleological ethical theories. There is no consensus among proponents of teleological ethical theories as to what qualifies a result as good or ...
... various normative theories recommending what ought to be considered in determining whether an action is right or wrong. The first set of theories is called teleological ethical theories. There is no consensus among proponents of teleological ethical theories as to what qualifies a result as good or ...
Document
... Al Pacino, left, and Russell Crowe in The Insider.Crowe plays a man forced to decide between providing a comfortable life for his family and blowing the whistle on a tobacco company. Source: The Everett Collection, Inc. The Art of Being Human: The Humanities As A Technique For Living, Custom Edition ...
... Al Pacino, left, and Russell Crowe in The Insider.Crowe plays a man forced to decide between providing a comfortable life for his family and blowing the whistle on a tobacco company. Source: The Everett Collection, Inc. The Art of Being Human: The Humanities As A Technique For Living, Custom Edition ...
Introduction to Religion REL 2000 Winter III 2009 Fridays 8:30am
... Utilitarian ethics calls for moral behavior by individuals and communities that contribute most effectively to the greatest overall happiness for the greatest number of persons ...
... Utilitarian ethics calls for moral behavior by individuals and communities that contribute most effectively to the greatest overall happiness for the greatest number of persons ...
Abraham Lincoln:
... people are. He who would move the world must first move himself. Felix Adler: To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development. ...
... people are. He who would move the world must first move himself. Felix Adler: To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development. ...
Aristotle on Human Excellence
... bodily desires, and so does evil. Vicious: Takes pleasure in doing evil. Bestial: Subhumanly wicked. ...
... bodily desires, and so does evil. Vicious: Takes pleasure in doing evil. Bestial: Subhumanly wicked. ...
Professional Ethics
... Objectivism is the view that “the good” exists outside the human mind. Our role as humans is to find or discover “the good” Since “the good” exists independently of our intellectual activity, its definition never changes. ...
... Objectivism is the view that “the good” exists outside the human mind. Our role as humans is to find or discover “the good” Since “the good” exists independently of our intellectual activity, its definition never changes. ...
Medical Ethics
... Problem of Consistency, conflicting guidance in and between codes Problem of Questionable Morality, on abortion, euthanasia, lies Codes are more to do with etiquette, social and economic niceties and maintaining a monopoly than with morality Codes are not normative, ANACHRONISTIC and thus objectiona ...
... Problem of Consistency, conflicting guidance in and between codes Problem of Questionable Morality, on abortion, euthanasia, lies Codes are more to do with etiquette, social and economic niceties and maintaining a monopoly than with morality Codes are not normative, ANACHRONISTIC and thus objectiona ...
P H I L O S O P H Y
... • Ethics is the study of those values that relate to our moral conduct, including questions of good and evil, right and wrong, and moral responsibility. ...
... • Ethics is the study of those values that relate to our moral conduct, including questions of good and evil, right and wrong, and moral responsibility. ...
P H I L O S O P H Y
... • Ethics is the study of those values that relate to our moral conduct, including questions of good and evil, right and wrong, and moral responsibility. ...
... • Ethics is the study of those values that relate to our moral conduct, including questions of good and evil, right and wrong, and moral responsibility. ...
Nonconsequentialist Theories of Morality
... Golden Rule concept, if an action were reversed would a person want it to be done to him ...
... Golden Rule concept, if an action were reversed would a person want it to be done to him ...
Deontological ethics
... often called moral subjectivism is the doctrine that, for example, ‘This action is right’ means ‘I approve of this action’, or more generally that moral judgements are equivalent to reports of the speaker’s own feelings or attitudes.’ This is different from relativism as this describes a range of th ...
... often called moral subjectivism is the doctrine that, for example, ‘This action is right’ means ‘I approve of this action’, or more generally that moral judgements are equivalent to reports of the speaker’s own feelings or attitudes.’ This is different from relativism as this describes a range of th ...
Lesson 14: Ethics
... problems and ethical dilemmas? • Big differences between a moral problem and an ethical dilemma. • Ascertaining the relevant facts can help solve many moral problems. • Moral problems might not involve facts but simply will power (to steal, or not to steal). • Ethical dilemma: Two mutually exclusive ...
... problems and ethical dilemmas? • Big differences between a moral problem and an ethical dilemma. • Ascertaining the relevant facts can help solve many moral problems. • Moral problems might not involve facts but simply will power (to steal, or not to steal). • Ethical dilemma: Two mutually exclusive ...
Ethical subjectivism, also called moral subjectivism, is a
... Ethical subjectivism, also called moral subjectivism, is a philosophical theory that suggests moral truths are determined on an individual.It holds that there are no objective moral properties and that ethical statements are illogical because they do not express immutable truths. This makes ethical ...
... Ethical subjectivism, also called moral subjectivism, is a philosophical theory that suggests moral truths are determined on an individual.It holds that there are no objective moral properties and that ethical statements are illogical because they do not express immutable truths. This makes ethical ...
10 Moral Philosophy STUDENT GUIDE
... 52. The supreme principle of morality. Kant: A moral rule is universal and absolute. Thus, the supreme prescription of morality is to act in such a way that you could, rationally, will the principle on which you act to be a universal law. 53. And a moral rule may be expressed as a categorical impera ...
... 52. The supreme principle of morality. Kant: A moral rule is universal and absolute. Thus, the supreme prescription of morality is to act in such a way that you could, rationally, will the principle on which you act to be a universal law. 53. And a moral rule may be expressed as a categorical impera ...
Lesson 14: Ethics
... problems and ethical dilemmas? • Big differences between a moral problem and an ethical dilemma. • Ascertaining the relevant facts can help solve many moral problems. • Moral problems might not involve facts but simply will power (to steal, or not to steal). • Ethical dilemma: Two mutually exclusive ...
... problems and ethical dilemmas? • Big differences between a moral problem and an ethical dilemma. • Ascertaining the relevant facts can help solve many moral problems. • Moral problems might not involve facts but simply will power (to steal, or not to steal). • Ethical dilemma: Two mutually exclusive ...
Lesson 13: Ethics
... decisions every day. - What is right or wrong, good or bad, ethical or not? - People make decisions based a set of values established early in life. - Values are beliefs, principles, standards, and qualities considered desirable. ...
... decisions every day. - What is right or wrong, good or bad, ethical or not? - People make decisions based a set of values established early in life. - Values are beliefs, principles, standards, and qualities considered desirable. ...
moral philosophy - The Richmond Philosophy Pages
... But a fundamental agreement on the greatest happiness principle 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 ...
... But a fundamental agreement on the greatest happiness principle 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 ...
Categorical Imperative
... • Would a society function where every person discriminates based on race? • Possibly, but this, Kant argues, is a society we would not want to live in. ...
... • Would a society function where every person discriminates based on race? • Possibly, but this, Kant argues, is a society we would not want to live in. ...
Facilitation & Case Consultation (ppt lecture)
... Use Your Ethics Resources to Evaluate Alternatives Propose and Test Possible Resolutions McDonald, 2000 ...
... Use Your Ethics Resources to Evaluate Alternatives Propose and Test Possible Resolutions McDonald, 2000 ...
Bernard Williams
Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams, FBA (21 September 1929 – 10 June 2003) was an English moral philosopher, described by The Times as the ""most brilliant and most important British moral philosopher of his time."" His publications include Problems of the Self (1973), Moral Luck (1981), Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (1985), and Truth and Truthfulness (2002). He was knighted in 1999.As Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and Deutsch Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, Williams became known internationally for his attempt to reorient the study of moral philosophy to history and culture, politics and psychology, and in particular to the Greeks. Described as an analytic philosopher with the soul of a humanist, he saw himself as a synthesist, drawing together ideas from fields that seemed increasingly unable to communicate with one another. He rejected scientism, and scientific or evolutionary reductionism, calling the ""morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists"" ""the people I really do dislike."" For Williams, complexity was irreducible, beautiful, and meaningful.He became known as a supporter of women in academia; the American philosopher Martha Nussbaum wrote that he was ""as close to being a feminist as a powerful man of his generation could be."" He was also famously sharp in conversation. Oxford philosopher Gilbert Ryle once said of him that he ""understands what you're going to say better than you understand it yourself, and sees all the possible objections to it, all the possible answers to all the possible objections, before you've got to the end of your sentence.""