Ch 5 (pp.60-75) Supplement p.1-4
What is the point of morality?
1.) Why does society need morality? 2.) Why should I be moral?
Ethics Question
Are there any universal values, or are they all relative?
What is ethics?
Ethics seeks to establish and prescribe norms, standards, or principles for evaluating our actual practices.
Ethics Question
How can ethical theories help us comprehend and take stands on pressing issues that impact us all?
Ethics Question
How much government do we need? Is it ever justifiable to break the law, to commit civil disobedience? What is the relationship between the individual and the state?
Ethics Question
There is a difference between desiring to be a moral person for its own sake and being moral because of the external rewards it brings in society
Ethics Question
What is a just society?
Ethics Question
What is the 'good life,' the best life worth living?
Ethics Question
What is the justification for the government?
Ethics Question
What moral principles are rationally defensible, and which actions are genuinely good or bad?
Ethics Question
Why be moral?
Ethics Question
Without fear of punishment and social pressure would we really act morally?
Morality
a commitment to being a certain sort of person.
kantian ethics
absolute moral duties by reason and aren't affected by the consequence
feminist ethics
attempt to correct male biases in traditional ethical theory by emphasizing relationships and compassion
virtue ethics
character of the person
pluralistic society
different groups and political parties are allowed to exist
utilitarianism
group happiness= best option
contemporary society
modern or present day society
Can you be moral without being religious?
morality is possible without religion
normative ethics
morally right and wrong
nonsubjective
not shaped by personal experience, views, opinion, or knowledge
nonarbitrary
not subject to individual determination
descriptive morality
people's moral beliefs, claims, behaviors
social contract theory
political philosophy that questions the origins of society and the legitimacy of governmental control over individual people.
conventional ethical relativism
right and wrong is based on the society
ethical egoism
self interest
altruism
the belief in or practice of disinterested and selfless concern for the wellbeing of others
stoicism
the endurance of pain or hardship w/o the display of feelings and w/o complaint
ethical objectivism
universal and objectively valid moral principles that are relative neither to the individual nor to society
unabated
without any reduction in intensity or strength