Ethics
... Engineering Ethics • The study of understanding moral values, resolving moral issues and justifying moral decisions in engineering practice. • Also can be considered beliefs and acceptable practices codes of ethics • Finally, it is also the obligation, justification and principles to be endorsed. ...
... Engineering Ethics • The study of understanding moral values, resolving moral issues and justifying moral decisions in engineering practice. • Also can be considered beliefs and acceptable practices codes of ethics • Finally, it is also the obligation, justification and principles to be endorsed. ...
Philosophy 219
... It's key claim is that an action (performed by a member of Group G) is right iff the moral norms accepted by G permit the performance of the action. ...
... It's key claim is that an action (performed by a member of Group G) is right iff the moral norms accepted by G permit the performance of the action. ...
Introduction to Moral Theory
... It is the ‘practical’ character of social and political philosophy that explains why it satisfies the moral values general education requirement. ...
... It is the ‘practical’ character of social and political philosophy that explains why it satisfies the moral values general education requirement. ...
Aristotle on Human Excellence
... empirical hypothesis is significant (legitimate) only if some possible sense experience is relevant for determining its truth or falsity. Utilitarianism claims actions are good if they produce pleasure or reduce pain. ...
... empirical hypothesis is significant (legitimate) only if some possible sense experience is relevant for determining its truth or falsity. Utilitarianism claims actions are good if they produce pleasure or reduce pain. ...
it is the right thing to do.
... whether you are happy and you cease to be so.” In response to Bentham, John Stuart Mill claims that happiness is an intellectual achievement, not merely pleasure. Mill argued that you cannot simply identify pleasure with good and evil with pain. Mill proposed a version of utilitarianism that did not ...
... whether you are happy and you cease to be so.” In response to Bentham, John Stuart Mill claims that happiness is an intellectual achievement, not merely pleasure. Mill argued that you cannot simply identify pleasure with good and evil with pain. Mill proposed a version of utilitarianism that did not ...
Ethics - TypePad
... then be used as a guide for decisions about moral right and wrong. Many such arguments can be put into deductive form, usually with a universal positive premise that articulates some general ethical principle. To this extent, they are similar to categorical deductive arguments of the form “All A are ...
... then be used as a guide for decisions about moral right and wrong. Many such arguments can be put into deductive form, usually with a universal positive premise that articulates some general ethical principle. To this extent, they are similar to categorical deductive arguments of the form “All A are ...
Nature of ethics
... Socrates is represented in Plato’s Apology as saying that if the state spares his life on condition that he no longer teach as he has been doing, he will not obey, because (4) he has been assigned the duty of teaching by the god, Apollo, and (5) his teaching is necessary for the true good of the sta ...
... Socrates is represented in Plato’s Apology as saying that if the state spares his life on condition that he no longer teach as he has been doing, he will not obey, because (4) he has been assigned the duty of teaching by the god, Apollo, and (5) his teaching is necessary for the true good of the sta ...
252518ethicsofcare2k10
... 5. Prior Rights and Social Contract: Avoiding harm and doing good become the focus…even trying to make the world a better place. ...
... 5. Prior Rights and Social Contract: Avoiding harm and doing good become the focus…even trying to make the world a better place. ...
Lec 18 PowerPoint
... 5. Prior Rights and Social Contract: Avoiding harm and doing good become the focus…even trying to make the world a better place. ...
... 5. Prior Rights and Social Contract: Avoiding harm and doing good become the focus…even trying to make the world a better place. ...
Ethics and Leadership
... The preservation of our government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty; if the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompete ...
... The preservation of our government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty; if the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompete ...
Class #9 - 8/5/10
... It seems to help each of us engage our fellow humans (who may be outside our “own group”) with more respect, admiration, and appreciation. ...
... It seems to help each of us engage our fellow humans (who may be outside our “own group”) with more respect, admiration, and appreciation. ...
An ethical question that arose with special force during the Gulf War
... An ethical question that arose with special force during the Gulf War in 1991 concerned the duties of ordinary civilians who were not called for military service. Many of these citizens had opposed the war before it began. Opinion polls just before the war showed the United States about evenly split ...
... An ethical question that arose with special force during the Gulf War in 1991 concerned the duties of ordinary civilians who were not called for military service. Many of these citizens had opposed the war before it began. Opinion polls just before the war showed the United States about evenly split ...
Ethics in the Practice of Health Profession
... “Always obtain oral or written consent for any medical intervention with competent patients EXCEPT in emergencies, low risk situations and when patient waive the right to adequate information” ...
... “Always obtain oral or written consent for any medical intervention with competent patients EXCEPT in emergencies, low risk situations and when patient waive the right to adequate information” ...
Meta-Ethics
... Normative Ethics v Meta Ethics Normative Ethics Deals with what things are right or wrong. They help people to understand what is right and moral and what is wrong and immoral. They tell people what to do and what not to do. ‘This is a good gun’ – is the gun morally good? ...
... Normative Ethics v Meta Ethics Normative Ethics Deals with what things are right or wrong. They help people to understand what is right and moral and what is wrong and immoral. They tell people what to do and what not to do. ‘This is a good gun’ – is the gun morally good? ...
Kerns Relativism and Essentialism
... if they haven’t fully defined it that way for themselves, and even if they haven’t thought about the matter very consciously. What we will want to do here is just identify what each of these two schools is so that we can use these terms in our future classroom discussions. Both ethical relativism an ...
... if they haven’t fully defined it that way for themselves, and even if they haven’t thought about the matter very consciously. What we will want to do here is just identify what each of these two schools is so that we can use these terms in our future classroom discussions. Both ethical relativism an ...
File - Clydeview Academy Humanities Website
... • Buddhist ethics do not generally speak of right and wrong, good and bad, but of thoughts or actions being kushala (skilful) or akushala (unskilful). • Skilful actions are based on compassion, generosity and wisdom while unskilful ones are based on hatred, selfishness and delusion. • The main reaso ...
... • Buddhist ethics do not generally speak of right and wrong, good and bad, but of thoughts or actions being kushala (skilful) or akushala (unskilful). • Skilful actions are based on compassion, generosity and wisdom while unskilful ones are based on hatred, selfishness and delusion. • The main reaso ...
The psychologist Lwrence Kohlberg, for example, has concluded on
... State 6: Universal Ethical Principles Orientation. Right action is defined in terms of universal principles chosen because of their logical comprehensiveness, their universality, and their consistency. These ethical principles are not concrete like the Ten Commandments but abstract universal princip ...
... State 6: Universal Ethical Principles Orientation. Right action is defined in terms of universal principles chosen because of their logical comprehensiveness, their universality, and their consistency. These ethical principles are not concrete like the Ten Commandments but abstract universal princip ...
kantian deontology
... Only thing necessarily and always good Good in itself, not consequentially What does a good will will? To do duty for duty’s sake Respect for duty / moral law is motive Only actions so motivated have true moral worth MORAL LAW: necessarily binding objective principles of pure practical r ...
... Only thing necessarily and always good Good in itself, not consequentially What does a good will will? To do duty for duty’s sake Respect for duty / moral law is motive Only actions so motivated have true moral worth MORAL LAW: necessarily binding objective principles of pure practical r ...
Four Types of Ethical Conflict
... The question of how best to lead a moral life, and how the word "morality" can be best defined, is one of the foundational questions of philosophy. Moral philosophers (or Ethicists) have, over the years, formulated numerous theories designed to help people make the best moral decisions. These theori ...
... The question of how best to lead a moral life, and how the word "morality" can be best defined, is one of the foundational questions of philosophy. Moral philosophers (or Ethicists) have, over the years, formulated numerous theories designed to help people make the best moral decisions. These theori ...
Ethics “Moral Philosophy”
... “In the 1920’s it was immoral for women to wear bathing suits that were more than 6 inches above the knee” ...
... “In the 1920’s it was immoral for women to wear bathing suits that were more than 6 inches above the knee” ...
The moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant (1724
... The moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) is one of the most influential in the western intellectual tradition. Kant accepted the metaphor / model of „law‟ for understanding the nature of moral obligation. But rather than the moral law being found in a sacred scripture, sacred institutions o ...
... The moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) is one of the most influential in the western intellectual tradition. Kant accepted the metaphor / model of „law‟ for understanding the nature of moral obligation. But rather than the moral law being found in a sacred scripture, sacred institutions o ...
Types of Ethical Theories
... Deontological theories: right action (gr. deon=duty, obligation) a. The rightness/wrongness of an act does not depend upon the circumstances or its consequences. Some actions have the same moral valence regardless. b. Categorical imperative: act only upon that M which I as a rational agent can consi ...
... Deontological theories: right action (gr. deon=duty, obligation) a. The rightness/wrongness of an act does not depend upon the circumstances or its consequences. Some actions have the same moral valence regardless. b. Categorical imperative: act only upon that M which I as a rational agent can consi ...
BUSINESS ETHICS
... What distinguishes moral standards from amoral standards? 1. Moral standards deal with matters that can seriously injure or benefit human beings. E.g. theft, rape, fraud, slander, murder. 2. The validity of moral standards rests on the adequacy of reasons to support and justify them, not on decision ...
... What distinguishes moral standards from amoral standards? 1. Moral standards deal with matters that can seriously injure or benefit human beings. E.g. theft, rape, fraud, slander, murder. 2. The validity of moral standards rests on the adequacy of reasons to support and justify them, not on decision ...
ethics_ep08
... beyond social framework. C. Implications 1. The lowest levels of moral sophistication are based on making judgments according to social context—deference to authority, social acceptance, and so forth—while the highest form of moral sophistication is the ability to make judgments based on totally abs ...
... beyond social framework. C. Implications 1. The lowest levels of moral sophistication are based on making judgments according to social context—deference to authority, social acceptance, and so forth—while the highest form of moral sophistication is the ability to make judgments based on totally abs ...