What is ethics?
Vice
A habit of unacceptable behaviour
Everyone shares core values desiring
- Life - Happiness - Ability to accomplish goals
Types of Ethics
- Meta-ethics - Normative ethics - Applied ethics
Ethical principles
- The golden rule - Slippery Slope - Universalism - Collective utilitarian principle - Risk Aversion - No free lunch - The new york times test - the social contract rule
Morality may vary by:
1) Age 2) Gender 3) Religion 4) Education 5) Cultural Group 6) Ethnic Background 7) Life experiences
Human beings Needs basic primitive survival instincts
1) Food 2) Shelter 3) Protection 4) Social Connection
Two ways to view the world
1) selfish point of view 2) ethical point of view
Virtue
A habit that inclines people to do what is acceptable
Moral
A individuals or society rules of conduct. - value judgements about right and wrong behaviour
True
A person who acts with integrity should apply the same or standards in all situations.
Moral code
A set of rules that establishes the boundaries of generally accepted behaviour, these rules are expressed in statements about how people should behave to form the moral code.
Ethics
A system of moral principles derived from a greek word "ethos" which means custom habit, character, disposition. - Ethics affect how people make decisions and lead their lives - its a rational examination of morality - evaluation of people's behavior - Describes codes or rules of behaviour
Law
A system of rules that tells us what we can and what cannot do. Laws are enforced by a set of institutions(police,court)
Integrity
Acting according to a code of principles
Legal acts
Acts that conform to the law
Moral acts
Acts that conform to what an individual believes to be the right thing to do
Rules
Advance the good of members over time
Society
Association of people organised under a system of rules
Normative ethics
Concerned with the content of moral judgements and the criteria for what is right or wrong
Selfish point of view
Consider only own self and its core values
Creative thinking
Creating something new or original or brainstorming
Education
Critical thinking and creative thinking
Meta-ethics
Deals with the nature of moral judgement it looks at the origins and meaning of ethical principles
What is the use of Ethics?
Ethics provide us with a moral map, a framework that we can use to find our way through difficult issues
Examples of virtue
Generosity, loyalty and fairness
Examples of vice
Greed, envy, anger and vanity.
Critical thinking
Involves logical thinking and reasoning
Ethics
Is a set of beliefs about right and wrong behavior within a society.
Applied ethics
Looks at controversial topics like war, animal rights, and capital punishment
Examples of Ethics
Lying and cheating
What is the difference between morals and ethics?
Moral or one's personal beliefs about right and wrong. Ethics describe standards or codes of behavior expected of an individual by a group.
Examples of morality
Murder and theft
True
Peoples virtues and vices help define their personal value system
Ethical point of view
Respect other people and their core values
Human beings need
Social connection such as family, friends and society
Morality
Social conventions about right and wrong that are so widely shared they become the basis for an established consensus.
Norms
Standards of proper or acceptable behavior
Personal value system
The complex scheme of moral values by which they live
Software piracy
The practice of illegally making copies of software or enabling others to access software to which they are not entitled.
Ethics doesn't give right answers
True
Society dictates what are acceptable as norms or standards of appropriate behaviour
True