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Introductory Lecture
... • A Big Question: ‘uhhhh....how people should behave in medical situations, according to whom?’ • Short answer: how people should behave from the standpoint of moral value • This gives us part of the picture. • Whatever morality is about, it’s about evaluating people and their actions from a certain ...
... • A Big Question: ‘uhhhh....how people should behave in medical situations, according to whom?’ • Short answer: how people should behave from the standpoint of moral value • This gives us part of the picture. • Whatever morality is about, it’s about evaluating people and their actions from a certain ...
OCR Document - Francis Bennion
... expanding areas of choice where moral guidance is lacking. We need to be taught how to think and choose (but not what to think and choose). We are wanting in moral wisdom, and require a science of the good life. There is pressing need to develop and enrich the conceptual content of the humanistic fr ...
... expanding areas of choice where moral guidance is lacking. We need to be taught how to think and choose (but not what to think and choose). We are wanting in moral wisdom, and require a science of the good life. There is pressing need to develop and enrich the conceptual content of the humanistic fr ...
9.2 Legal Reasoning
... have equal weight. Federal courts are separate from state courts and both state and federal systems have several levels. ...
... have equal weight. Federal courts are separate from state courts and both state and federal systems have several levels. ...
Andrew Baker - Georgetown Commons
... I believe that there are indeed universal moral codes. The mere acknowledgment of differing cultural values does not exonerate a person who commits rape, murder, or pillage. As Hornstein ascertains, “there comes a point where the refusal to take a stand on what is wrong results in its victory” (Hor ...
... I believe that there are indeed universal moral codes. The mere acknowledgment of differing cultural values does not exonerate a person who commits rape, murder, or pillage. As Hornstein ascertains, “there comes a point where the refusal to take a stand on what is wrong results in its victory” (Hor ...
The Study of Ethics
... • His approach to Justice is one that maximizes human freedom • Morality does not come from God; it comes from within ourselves • Morality- what is Right and Wrong- can be ascertained through the use of Human REASON ...
... • His approach to Justice is one that maximizes human freedom • Morality does not come from God; it comes from within ourselves • Morality- what is Right and Wrong- can be ascertained through the use of Human REASON ...
Relativism - A Level Philosophy
... • But for individuals within society, there is a right answer – relativism is not subjectivism. ...
... • But for individuals within society, there is a right answer – relativism is not subjectivism. ...
Relativism
... • But for individuals within society, there is a right answer – relativism is not subjectivism. ...
... • But for individuals within society, there is a right answer – relativism is not subjectivism. ...
Moral Reasoning
... that the maxim of your action should become a universal law. 2)Or act so that you treat humanity, both in your own person and in that of another, always as an end and never merely as a means. Thus morality is seen as being an objective requirement, independent of what anyone may want. ...
... that the maxim of your action should become a universal law. 2)Or act so that you treat humanity, both in your own person and in that of another, always as an end and never merely as a means. Thus morality is seen as being an objective requirement, independent of what anyone may want. ...
Get the summary handout (PDF)
... The 2nd law of thermodynamics – the universe, a closed isolated system, is running out of usable energy and therefore is not eternal. The universe is expanding, a fact proven by the Hubble telescope – it had a beginning. The radiation echo discovered by Bell Labs scientists in the 1900’s – the after ...
... The 2nd law of thermodynamics – the universe, a closed isolated system, is running out of usable energy and therefore is not eternal. The universe is expanding, a fact proven by the Hubble telescope – it had a beginning. The radiation echo discovered by Bell Labs scientists in the 1900’s – the after ...
Introduction to Ethics Lecture 9 The Challenge of Cultural Relativism
... – 1. All cultural groups must value protecting their infants. • 1. Human infants are helpless and cannot survive if they are not given extensive care for a period of years. • 2. Therefore, if a group did not care or its young, the young would not survive, and the older members of the group would not ...
... – 1. All cultural groups must value protecting their infants. • 1. Human infants are helpless and cannot survive if they are not given extensive care for a period of years. • 2. Therefore, if a group did not care or its young, the young would not survive, and the older members of the group would not ...
Lecture Notes-- Applied Ethics
... -When evaluating a rule or particular course of action, it's important to make a distinction between the end in view and the means to its achievement. An end is a goal, or aim-- it's what we're trying to achieve in our actions or policies; a means is what we do to achieve our goals -traditionally, t ...
... -When evaluating a rule or particular course of action, it's important to make a distinction between the end in view and the means to its achievement. An end is a goal, or aim-- it's what we're trying to achieve in our actions or policies; a means is what we do to achieve our goals -traditionally, t ...
Morals
... Theoretical frameworks No theory-independent view on moral status • Regan: Kant > autonomy > cognitive abilities • Singer: utilitarians promote non-moral values, such as happiness > suffering • No answer to moral significance question • Why should moral status be central? • Does it admit of gradati ...
... Theoretical frameworks No theory-independent view on moral status • Regan: Kant > autonomy > cognitive abilities • Singer: utilitarians promote non-moral values, such as happiness > suffering • No answer to moral significance question • Why should moral status be central? • Does it admit of gradati ...
Ethics Course Handout - Oklahoma Physical Therapy Association
... “Our contract with society” Our credibility rests on our ability to make sound clinical judgment that includes ethical reasoning and decision making. ...
... “Our contract with society” Our credibility rests on our ability to make sound clinical judgment that includes ethical reasoning and decision making. ...
Immanuel Kant (1724 * 1804)
... (Grundlegung) • … therefore, the basis of obligation must not be sought in the nature of man, or in the circumstances in the world in which he is placed, but a priori simply in the conception of pure reason; and although any other precept which is founded on principles of mere experience may be in c ...
... (Grundlegung) • … therefore, the basis of obligation must not be sought in the nature of man, or in the circumstances in the world in which he is placed, but a priori simply in the conception of pure reason; and although any other precept which is founded on principles of mere experience may be in c ...
Ethical Pluralism and Relativism
... principle which is universally applicable. But it also says that people in whatever culture should respect others’ moral codes. As being neutral is neither right nor wrong, why must we be tolerant of other cultures’ practices? ...
... principle which is universally applicable. But it also says that people in whatever culture should respect others’ moral codes. As being neutral is neither right nor wrong, why must we be tolerant of other cultures’ practices? ...
NAME: KABUOH IJEOMA ROSEMARY. DEPARTMENT: NURSING
... Ethics is not just any kind of inquiry. Rather it is a rational inquiry. It is a moral inquiry which consists of everything about truth. It is practiced with the belief that humans are rational, and as rational beings they will seek adequate concerning their actions in their quest to determine the p ...
... Ethics is not just any kind of inquiry. Rather it is a rational inquiry. It is a moral inquiry which consists of everything about truth. It is practiced with the belief that humans are rational, and as rational beings they will seek adequate concerning their actions in their quest to determine the p ...
Jacques Rousseau – Practical Morality
... Moral ideas are always up for debate – but we apply inconsistent standards to happiness and welfare ...
... Moral ideas are always up for debate – but we apply inconsistent standards to happiness and welfare ...
Categorical Imperative
... being created by acting in such a manner. • Ask yourself this question: • If all people in this world made promises that they had no intention of keeping could this become a universal moral law? ...
... being created by acting in such a manner. • Ask yourself this question: • If all people in this world made promises that they had no intention of keeping could this become a universal moral law? ...
Morality as a Value Criterion and a Social Fact
... other criteria of evaluation which we may call “non-moral values.” We should begin by explaining how these values come into existence in the first place: something acquires value by becoming an object of interest for someone, meaning that something nobody has any interest in is valueless or without ...
... other criteria of evaluation which we may call “non-moral values.” We should begin by explaining how these values come into existence in the first place: something acquires value by becoming an object of interest for someone, meaning that something nobody has any interest in is valueless or without ...
Types of Ethical Theories
... 1. An ethical theory: a. moves beyond our moral intuitions and systematize them. b. is universal: I act on this M (rule)—as should everyone. That is what it means to be [morally] good/ right/a duty/ obligatory… c. must be adequate to all three poles of ethical action (and none is!) 2. The question t ...
... 1. An ethical theory: a. moves beyond our moral intuitions and systematize them. b. is universal: I act on this M (rule)—as should everyone. That is what it means to be [morally] good/ right/a duty/ obligatory… c. must be adequate to all three poles of ethical action (and none is!) 2. The question t ...
Powerpoint5B. - People Server at UNCW
... • Man = an emergent reality, free to define his own ends and rules of living • Each individual has the right to redefine morality himself; there is no ‘objective’ ethics • Sartre: this = existential truth and authenticity ...
... • Man = an emergent reality, free to define his own ends and rules of living • Each individual has the right to redefine morality himself; there is no ‘objective’ ethics • Sartre: this = existential truth and authenticity ...
ppt
... got him to talk about it, that like the morning dove, the bittern, the Indian, he had a sixth sense. What he thought of as his sixth sense was in fact only what his five senses agreed on and communicated to his mind, acting together, like an intelligence agency, to sort out, accept or reject, and ev ...
... got him to talk about it, that like the morning dove, the bittern, the Indian, he had a sixth sense. What he thought of as his sixth sense was in fact only what his five senses agreed on and communicated to his mind, acting together, like an intelligence agency, to sort out, accept or reject, and ev ...
Introduction to Ethics Lecture 9 The Challenge of Cultural Relativism
... The first premise concerns what people believe while the conclusion concerns what really is the case. There is no reason to think that if there is a moral truth everyone will know it. ...
... The first premise concerns what people believe while the conclusion concerns what really is the case. There is no reason to think that if there is a moral truth everyone will know it. ...