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Introduction to Ethics
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- 1What features of a situation might lead someone to conclude that it has a moral dimension?-Someone has been deceived
-Someone was treated unfairly
-Someone was hurt
-Questions of character come into view
-Values conflict - 2Besides the content of a situation, what else might lead someone to consider it a moral situation?A person comes to a moral standpoint (or point of view) one involving concern for doing the right thing.
- 3What are some concepts that are common elements or moral discussions-Duty
-Obligation
-Bad, wrong, immoral, wicked
-Right, good, commendable
-ought
Right, as in having a right to do something
-The greatest amount of good consequences for everyone affected - 4What sorts of interests in a situation are associated with morality?-Compassion
-Doing one's duty
-Seriousness
-Regard for what we are making ourselves if we repeatedly act in certain ways - 5What is ethics fundamentally concerned with?Ethics concerns what people ought to do. It engages reflection, argument, and discussion of what is morally right or wrong.
- 6What tempts people to reflects philosophically on moral questions?-Unusual circumstances about which they have no settled ideas of right and wrong.
-Moral disagreements about actions that have already taken place - 7In terms of what three elements can moral arguments be analyzed?-Evidence
-A Claim
-Warrant - 8Where do moral theories enter into moral arguments?As justifications for the warrants stated or implied in moral arguments
- 9What are the six kinds of moral reasons that we will be concerned with?-Results or consequences
-Equity, or fairness
-Obligation or duty
-Personal connections or relationships
-Solidarity or community
-Self formation or character - 10What are some questions asked when pertaining to results or consequences?What are the consequences?
Which are the good consequences and which are the bad?
For whom are those consequences good or bad? - 11What are some questions asked in pertaining to equity or fairness?Would I want someone to do to me what I'm doing to them and vice versa?
Does the demand for moral equity and reciprocity - fairness - overlook morally important differences?
Can't we ever put ourselves first without worrying about someone else? - 12What are some questions asked in pertaining to obligation or duty?What are my duties?
What do I do when duties conflict?
Are my duties always more important that other factors, say, my preferences, or are other factors sometimes more important than duty? - 13What are some questions asked in partaining to connections or relationships?What and how much do I owe those with whom I have important primary relationships?
Are there times when the consequences of an action for a stranger may outweigh in importance the consequences of the action for a friend or family member?
What will, in fact, preserve and nurture my primary relationships and what will poison them? - 14What questions might be asked pertaining to solidarity or community?What are the community's standards, and who is authorized to decide?
Does this or that activity that I might engage in really subvert or uphold those standards?
Can a community's demands ever be too great?
How do you balance the demands of different communities when you belong to more than one? - 15What are some questions that might be asked when pertaining to self formation or character?What is a good life?
What has my life amounted to up to this point?
What am I making of myself if I continue to live and act the way I am?
How can I be someone that I won't mind seeing in the mirror every morning? - 16What are some of the main subdivisions within ethics?Applied Ethics
Normative Ethics
Other Regarding Ethics
Self Regarding Ethics
Meta Ethics - 17What are some other ethical subdivisions?Ethical absolutism
Ethical relativism
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- This is an introduction to the subject of Ethics. (Best if used by Jerry Law's Ethics students at Orange Coast College)
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- Stacy Roberts
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