ETHICS CHAPTER 1

What is the study ethics?

• It focuses on the right things only

• It focuses on what is ethically good and evil, right and wrong

• It focuses on morality, good and evil ethics

What do we look at in ethics?

• We look at people's ethics to judge them.

• We look at the good society and equity of behaviours.

• We look at relations to rights, duties, the good of society, equity, or certain qualities.

This is one of the example of ethical questions in relation to ethics.

"Will you choose your happiness for ________ or is it for everyone else?"

Alias's friend came to him and shared his secret that he has anxiety disorder.

In this situation, what should Alias do?

• Tell the secret to other friends.

• Keep the secret to himself.

• Keep the secret but if someone close to him asks, he will tell that person.

This is one of the aims of domains of ethics.

Aim: To describe and explain how people actually behave and think when dealing with moral issue.

• Normative ethics

• Metaethics

• Descriptive ethics

The purpose of metaethics.

• The purpose is to question all of the assumptions that inform descriptive ethics.

• The purpose is to question all of the assumptions that inform normative ethics.

• The purpose is to learn something important about the moral characteristics.

Logical Arguments: The backbone of critical and moral reasoning.

• FALSE

• TRUE

Doing ethics requires that moral norms and judgments follow the principle of universalizability.

• The Universal Perspective

• The Dominance of Moral Norms

All persons are considered equal and should be treated accordingly is one of the elements of ethics.

What element of ethics is this?

When moral principles conflict in some way with non-moral norms, moral principles override the others.

What element of ethics is this?