Kinds of Ethics
Morality
Isms Etc.
To Lie or Not to Lie
Principles
100
Ethics as it pertains to an empirical account of standards that actually guide behavior, as opposed to those standards that should guide behavior.
What is Descriptive Ethics?
100
Refers to the aspects of ethics involving personal, individual decision-making.
What is Morality?
100
As an ethical theory, it holds that all people act only from self-interest and falls under the Consequentialist umbrella of theories.
What is Egoism?
100
Refers to individuals' completeness within themselves, often derived from the consistency or alignment of actions with deeply held beliefs.
What is Personal Integrity?
100
Ethical rules that put value into action.
What are principles?
200
Ethics as it pertains to the norms that establish standards for determining what we should do, how we should act, what type of person we should be.
What is Normative Ethics?
200
Those obligations that one is bound to perform, regardless of consequences, and may be derived from basic ethical principles, from the law, or from one's professional role.
What are Duties?
200
An important perspective within the philosophical study of ethics that holds that ethical values and judgments are ultimately dependent on, or relative to, one's culture, society, or personal feelings, and where relativism denies that we can make natural or objective ethical judgments.
What is Ethical Relativism?
200
It is the goal of virtue ethics, it is defined as a set of traits, dispositions, and habits, that along with rational deliberation, accounts for how a decision to act will be made.
What is Character?
200
From the Greek "self-ruled" it is the capacity to make free and deliberate choices; it is what explains the inherent dignity and intrinsic value of individual human beings.
What is Autonomy?
300
Ethics as it pertains to how we should live together with others and how organizations ought to be structured, and involves questions of political, economic, civil, and cultural norms aimed at promoting human well-being.
What is Social Ethics?
300
Those beliefs that incline us to act or choose in one way rather than another, and that can involve different types such as financial, religious, legal, historical, nutritional, political science, and aesthetic.
What are Values?
300
An ethical theory that tells us that we can determine the ethical significance of any action by looking to the consequences of that act; typically identified with the policy "the greatest good for the greatest number."
What is Utilitarianism?
300
Experiences are interpreted through our own understanding and concepts, but psychologists and philosophers, have long recognized that individuals cannot perceive the world independently of their own conceptual framework thus ethical disagreements can depend as much on a person's conceptual framework as on the facts of the situation.
What are Perceptual Differences?
300
Those moral rights that individuals have simply in virtue of being a human being.
What are Human Rights?
400
An approach to ethics that studies the character traits or habits that constitute a good human life, a life worth living; it is these that provide answers to the basic question of "what kind of person should I be?"
What is Virtue Ethics?
400
Standards or guidelines that establish appropriate and proper behavior, and may include perspectives such as economics, etiquette, or ethics.
What are Norms?
400
Ethical theories, such as Utilitarianism, that determine right or wrong by calculating the consequences of actions.
What are Consequentialist Theories?
400
Requires a persuasive and rational justification for a decision which is developed through a logical process of decision-making that gives proper attention to such things as facts, alternative perspectives, consequences to all stakeholders, and ethical principles.
What is Ethical Decision-Making Process?
400
A framework for ethics that grounds decision-making in fundamental principles such as justice, liberty, autonomy, and fairness, and asserts that individual rights and duties are fundamental and thus can also be referred to as rights-based or duty-based.
What is Principle-Based Framework?
500
Those properties of life that contribute to human well-being and a life well lived, and include such things as happiness, respect, dignity, integrity, freedom, companionship, and health.
What are Ethical Values?
500
When one is facing an ethical decision, it is the ability to envision various alternative choices, consequences, resolutions, benefits, and harms.
What is Moral Imagination?
500
Individuals within a business setting are often in situations in which they must make decisions both from their own personal point of view and from the perspective of the specific role they fill within the institution; ethically responsible decisions require the recognition that these perspectives can conflict.
What is Personal and Professional Decision-Making?
500
A decision-making omission occurring when decision-makers fail to notice gradual changes over time.
What is Change Blindness?
500
Involves reasoning about what one ought to do; aims at determining what is reasonable for us to do.
What is Practical Reasoning?
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