Ethical Theory Review Sheet
... Consequently, if it is in someone else's interest to harm the ethical egoist, the ethical egoist has to grant, by virtue of the theory, that the person should act in his or her self-interest. On the other hand, the ethical egoist cannot do this by virtue of the theory since it forbids the individual ...
... Consequently, if it is in someone else's interest to harm the ethical egoist, the ethical egoist has to grant, by virtue of the theory, that the person should act in his or her self-interest. On the other hand, the ethical egoist cannot do this by virtue of the theory since it forbids the individual ...
Lecture Notes URL
... Camus and Existentialism Camus’s ethical system. Human beings inhabit a moral universe in which there are no absolute guidelines Nonetheless, we have an ethical sense that we try to live up. Life constantly presents us with moral choices without giving us the right answers. We define ours ...
... Camus and Existentialism Camus’s ethical system. Human beings inhabit a moral universe in which there are no absolute guidelines Nonetheless, we have an ethical sense that we try to live up. Life constantly presents us with moral choices without giving us the right answers. We define ours ...
Introductory Lecture
... not make a convincing case for moral relativism. • This doesn’t prove that moral relativism is false. • It does prove that the cultural differences argument isn’t a good reason for believing in moral relativism. • A general rule for philosophy/ethics: if you don’t have a good reason for holding a pa ...
... not make a convincing case for moral relativism. • This doesn’t prove that moral relativism is false. • It does prove that the cultural differences argument isn’t a good reason for believing in moral relativism. • A general rule for philosophy/ethics: if you don’t have a good reason for holding a pa ...
CPCU Ethics Quarry Oaks Golf Course
... Could I defend my position before the Board of Directors, the CEO, or the media? What would ______________________ do? (Fill in the name of the best role model you know.) Will this seem to be the right decision a year from now? Five years from mow? Do I have the moral courage to take the more ethica ...
... Could I defend my position before the Board of Directors, the CEO, or the media? What would ______________________ do? (Fill in the name of the best role model you know.) Will this seem to be the right decision a year from now? Five years from mow? Do I have the moral courage to take the more ethica ...
Ethics Glossary
... that they know what this absolute truth is. In ethics, absolutism is usually contrasted to relativism. Agnosticism. The conviction that one simply does not know whether God exists or not; it is often accompanied with a further conviction that one need not care whether God exists or not. Altruism. A ...
... that they know what this absolute truth is. In ethics, absolutism is usually contrasted to relativism. Agnosticism. The conviction that one simply does not know whether God exists or not; it is often accompanied with a further conviction that one need not care whether God exists or not. Altruism. A ...
Ethics & Values
... Clarifying Client Values • Purpose – Client’s values influence, relate to problem ...
... Clarifying Client Values • Purpose – Client’s values influence, relate to problem ...
Kant`s Moral Theory
... (1) Action A has intrinsic feature F. (2) It is morally good/bad to do actions with intrinsic feature F. Therefore, (3) H should/should not do A. ...
... (1) Action A has intrinsic feature F. (2) It is morally good/bad to do actions with intrinsic feature F. Therefore, (3) H should/should not do A. ...
Ethics and Decision Making
... To tell or not to tell • What makes this an ethical issue? • What reasons would you give to support your view on what should happen? ...
... To tell or not to tell • What makes this an ethical issue? • What reasons would you give to support your view on what should happen? ...
Ethics and the CTRS
... Due to experimentations gradual shift of decisionmaking from physician to patient (autonomy) – patient-based self-determination Right and Good may not always be the same ...
... Due to experimentations gradual shift of decisionmaking from physician to patient (autonomy) – patient-based self-determination Right and Good may not always be the same ...
Bioethics - Mercer Island School District
... considered to make a moral decision. • The 4 prinicipals: – ______________________: Acknowledge a person’s right to make choices and take action based on personal values and beliefs. – __________: Treat a person fairly or appropriately in light of what is due or owed him or her. – __________________ ...
... considered to make a moral decision. • The 4 prinicipals: – ______________________: Acknowledge a person’s right to make choices and take action based on personal values and beliefs. – __________: Treat a person fairly or appropriately in light of what is due or owed him or her. – __________________ ...
Applied Ethics/Critical Thinking
... • But, what if one is interested in something more, like integrity? • Should people value integrity? • If they should, then seeming virtuous, rather than being so, won’t work. ...
... • But, what if one is interested in something more, like integrity? • Should people value integrity? • If they should, then seeming virtuous, rather than being so, won’t work. ...
Ethical Theories
... whether in your own person or in the person of any other, always at the same time as an end and never simply as a means" -- Kant, Immanuel; trans. Ellington, J.W. [1785] (1993), p.36 ...
... whether in your own person or in the person of any other, always at the same time as an end and never simply as a means" -- Kant, Immanuel; trans. Ellington, J.W. [1785] (1993), p.36 ...
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.” ...
PHIL 1003: Introduction
... What is morality? Do we really value it? Plato Virtue/happiness, the Polis: Aristotle Religion as basis for moral society: Augustine Rulers/states should not be moral: Machiavelli Society based on rights of men: Locke, Rousseau ...
... What is morality? Do we really value it? Plato Virtue/happiness, the Polis: Aristotle Religion as basis for moral society: Augustine Rulers/states should not be moral: Machiavelli Society based on rights of men: Locke, Rousseau ...
ethical theory
... tend to agree about, as well as yielding answers to some disputed cases -- at a higher level, philosophical ethics divides into meta- and normative ethics: -- normative ethics is ethics “proper,” answering what we normally think of as ethical questions, practical or theoretical, about what’s right o ...
... tend to agree about, as well as yielding answers to some disputed cases -- at a higher level, philosophical ethics divides into meta- and normative ethics: -- normative ethics is ethics “proper,” answering what we normally think of as ethical questions, practical or theoretical, about what’s right o ...
Stace on ethical absolutism
... [It’s also consistent with ethical absolutism that no one has ever known or done the Good.] for the ethical absolutist, ethics is comparable to science, the Good comparable to the laws of nature. Moral law part of the “fundamental structure of the universe.” ethical absolutism is not necessari ...
... [It’s also consistent with ethical absolutism that no one has ever known or done the Good.] for the ethical absolutist, ethics is comparable to science, the Good comparable to the laws of nature. Moral law part of the “fundamental structure of the universe.” ethical absolutism is not necessari ...
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... cultural problem rather than a solution. In Whose Justice? Which Rationality? MacIntyre writes that: [m]odern academic philosophy turns out by and large to provide means for a more accurate and informed definition of disagreement rather than for progress toward its resolution. (1988, p. 3) In Ethics ...
... cultural problem rather than a solution. In Whose Justice? Which Rationality? MacIntyre writes that: [m]odern academic philosophy turns out by and large to provide means for a more accurate and informed definition of disagreement rather than for progress toward its resolution. (1988, p. 3) In Ethics ...
UNDERSTANDING PHILOSOPHY AND ITS
... Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that subjects to rigorous analysis issues and problems relating to the origin, nature, justification and limit of human knowledge. What is the distinction between knowledge and belief? Is experience the most reliable source of our knowledge, or is it reason? ...
... Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that subjects to rigorous analysis issues and problems relating to the origin, nature, justification and limit of human knowledge. What is the distinction between knowledge and belief? Is experience the most reliable source of our knowledge, or is it reason? ...
kantian deontology
... incoherence in conception contradiction in will Connection between good will and moral law through rational being as an end in itself. Categorical Imperative as Respect for Persons (Ends in Themselves) Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of anot ...
... incoherence in conception contradiction in will Connection between good will and moral law through rational being as an end in itself. Categorical Imperative as Respect for Persons (Ends in Themselves) Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of anot ...
Objectivism 101: Life and Happiness
... “Happiness is the successful state of life, suffering is the warning signal of failure, of death. Just as the pleasure-pain mechanism of man's body is an automatic indicator of his body's welfare or injury, a barometer of its basic alternative, life or death—so the emotional mechanism of man's consc ...
... “Happiness is the successful state of life, suffering is the warning signal of failure, of death. Just as the pleasure-pain mechanism of man's body is an automatic indicator of his body's welfare or injury, a barometer of its basic alternative, life or death—so the emotional mechanism of man's consc ...
Contemporary Moral Issues
... Cultural Ethical Realism : Morality is dependent on collective practice and preference Individual Ethical Relativism : Morality is dependent on a person’s own experiences and value systems Moral Isolationism : One cannot understand another culture’s moral system if one is not a member of that cultur ...
... Cultural Ethical Realism : Morality is dependent on collective practice and preference Individual Ethical Relativism : Morality is dependent on a person’s own experiences and value systems Moral Isolationism : One cannot understand another culture’s moral system if one is not a member of that cultur ...
Engineering ethics: How to win over a client
... philosophy. This article is concerned with ethics chiefly in the latter sense and is confined to that of Western civilization, ...
... philosophy. This article is concerned with ethics chiefly in the latter sense and is confined to that of Western civilization, ...
Introduction to Moral Theories and Principles that inform ethical
... Bentham tended to deal with the consequences of acts. However, ‘rule utilitariansim’ justifies certain rules on utilitarian grounds. For example, one might justify the general rule ‘do not lie’ on the utilitarian ground that lying produces more bad consequences than good consequences overall. In con ...
... Bentham tended to deal with the consequences of acts. However, ‘rule utilitariansim’ justifies certain rules on utilitarian grounds. For example, one might justify the general rule ‘do not lie’ on the utilitarian ground that lying produces more bad consequences than good consequences overall. In con ...
Ethics in Dentistry:
... Those of us who are committed to morality share a set of norms, even though these norms may be very general. We all agree at least that any of the norms that we hold apply to all people, or to all who are members of the moral community. We cannot arbitrarily exclude any of those we may not like, or ...
... Those of us who are committed to morality share a set of norms, even though these norms may be very general. We all agree at least that any of the norms that we hold apply to all people, or to all who are members of the moral community. We cannot arbitrarily exclude any of those we may not like, or ...
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.""