Personal and Social Decisions
Reasoning form General ----- to specific conclusions
Deductive reasoning
Are the foundation of an individual person’s ability to judge between right and wrong.
Human Rights are____ they belong to all human beings.
Universal
The Classical Utilitarians, Jeremy Bentham and ______
Stuart Mill
How many levels of ethics exist?
Three
We make decisions with emotions
Irrational decision making
They can be shared by a larger population, but a person's ____ may differ from others' depending on their personal values.
We all have the right to believe in what we want to believe, to have a religion, or to change it if we want.
Freedom of Thought
Theory that focuses on the results or consequences of our actions and treats intentions as irrelevant.
Utilitarian
_________asks deeper questions about the nature of morality itself
Loss aversion
Occur when morals conflict with each other.
Moral Dilemmas
We all have the right to say what we think, and to share our ideas with other people.
Freedom of Expression
Often appeals to those who set very high standards for themselves.
Virtue Ethics
________Is focussed on the creation of theories that provide general moral rules governing our behavior
Normative Ethics
Is the process of drawing conclusions
Reasoning
Is the discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad and morally right and wrong.
Ethics
We all have the right to meet our friends and to work together in peace to defend our rights. Nobody can make us join a group if we don’t want to.
The Right to Public Assembly
Is an ethical theory that says actions are good or bad according to a clear set of rules.
Deontology Theory
Examines particular morally controversial topics as abortion, euthanasia, animal rights and world poverty.
Applied Ethics
Are models that people create about what will happen following different decisions
Are based on the personal values we hold dear to us.
Principles
____aims to preserve and promote the dignity and fundamental rights of the individual
Democracy
His work on personhood is an example of deontology in practice.
Is the view that, there are moral rules
Moral Realism