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