Ethics vs Morals
What is the difference between Ethics and Morals
ethics refer to rules provided by an external source, e.g., codes of conduct in workplaces or principles in religions. Morals refer to an individual's own principles regarding right and wrong.
What was Aristotle's family background?
He came from a wealthy background with parents who had a strong medical/wealthy background.
What is the first part of the conceptual framework? Provide a scenario with this stage.
Who-Agent
What is Social Determinism?
The belief that a person's actions and life choices are primarily shaped by their social and environmental circumstances.
It suggests that your family, culture, economic situation, and the society you live in have a major impact on how you behave and the opportunities you have.
Social determinism downplays the idea that individuals have complete control over their actions, emphasizing that external factors heavily influence their lives.
What is the first component of Conscience
The importance of others
What is deontological ethics?
the morality of an action should be based on whether that action itself is right or wrong under a series of rules and principles, rather than based on the consequences of the action
What are the 4 main themes of Aristotle's views
Pursuit of Happiness
Teleological
Human Excellence
The Means
What is the second part of the conceptual framework? Provide an example.
What-The Action
Does Social Determinism all you to be truly free? What theorist is associated with Social Determinism? What theory is specific to Determinism?
No, Freud and Theory of Unconscious
What is the second component of conscience.
The importance of having direction in life
What is teleological ethics?
heory of morality that derives duty or moral obligation from what is good or desirable as an end to be achieved.
I must act in such a way that the principles according to which I act should become a universal law was said by…..
Kant
What is the third part of the conceptual framework? Provide an example.
Why-The Motive
What is Freud 2’s fundamental instincts in humans
Life or Love-Eros Struggle against death
Struggle with Death-Thanatos (Human Aggression in WW1
What is the third component of Conscience
C. The importance of communication and language
What are the four ethical scenarios studied in class?
The experience of personal response
The experience of the other
The experience of obligation-I have to
This is intolerable! This isn’t fair! – The experience of contrast
The central question of where is the good, human uniqueness, face of the other and goodness translates to the responsibility of the other is philosophized by…
Levinas
What is the fourth part of the conceptual framework> Provide an example.
How-With What Means
What is superego? Who theorized it and what theory does it get associated with?
Freud, Theory of Instinct
What is the fourth component of Conscience
The importance of character and one’s body
Why do we need ethics and morals in our life today?
morals refer mainly to guiding principles, and ethics refer to specific rules and actions, or behaviors.
What is autonomy
1. independence or freedom, as of the will or one's actions. the autonomy of the individual.
2. the condition of being autonomous; self-government, or the right of self-government; independence
What is this test
A placebo
What is Naturalism?
Naturalism is the idea that the world revealed to us by scientific investigation is the one true world." a naturalist view defines the bounds of what can be believed as being possible or real.
What is the fifth component of Conscience
The importance of conscience