Utilitarianism
What is the main goal of Utilitarianism?
What is maximizing good.
What is the main goal of the Rights ethical perspective?
What is respecting the rights of everyone involved.
What is the main goal of the virtue ethical perspective?
What is treating everyone equally or proportionally.
What is the main goal of the common good ethical perspective?
What is serving the community as a whole.
A trolley is hurtling down a track towards five people. You can flip a switch and divert the train to run one person over instead of five. What would the Utilitarianism response be to this ethical dilemma?
What is flip the switch to run one person over.
Who are stakeholders?
What is people/groups that an ethical dilemma could have an impact on.
A trolley is hurtling down a track towards five people. You can save the five people by pushing a very large man onto the track. What would be the Virtuous response to this ethical dilemma?
What is not pushing the man onto the track.
What makes Fairness & Justice different from Common Good?
What is Fairness & Justice focus only on equal treatment of everyone
What differentiates common good from Fairness & Justice?
What is the focus on making the ethical decision that will be equally advantageous to everyone.
A trolley is hurtling down a track towards five people. You can flip a switch and divert the train to run one person over instead of five. The catch is that the single person on the other track is your mother. What would the Utilitarianism response be to this ethical dilemma?
What is run your mother over to save five people.
In the future genetic engineering has been advanced to the point where children can be genetically engineered to not have certain genetic diseases? Under the rights ethical perspective, would you support the utilization of this research?
What is no.
A trolley is hurtling down a track towards five people. You can flip a switch and divert the train to run one person over instead of five. The catch is that the single person on the other track is your mother. What would the Virtuous response be to this ethical dilemma?
What is save your mother.
What is the Fairness & Justice ethical response to genetic editing of children?
What is preventing it from happening since it obstructs the rights of the child.
In the future genetic engineering has been advanced to the point where children can be genetically engineered to not have certain genetic diseases? Under the common good ethical perspective, would you support the utilization of this research?
What is yes.
Who was credited with creating Utilitarianism and when did they create it?
Who is Jeremy Bentham in the late 1700's.
Who is credited with creating the Rights ethical perspective?
Who is Immanuel Kant.
Who is credited with creating the virtuous ethical perspective?
Who was credited with creating the idea of Justice?
Who is John Locke.
Who were the three main people credited with establishing the concept of Common Good?
Who is Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero.
Is Utilitarianism focused on making rules?
What is no, it is focused on results.
Is the rights ethical perspective focused on the results of an ethical decision?
What is no, it is focused on established rules and equity.
You are working on creating a safer switch device at your work. You learned that this switch is being used in landmines which you are morally opposed to. What is the virtuous ethical approach to this dilemma?
What is you should stop working on the project.
Who was responsible for expanding on the ideas of Justice to establish that Fairness was also included in that ideal?
Who is John Rawls.
You are working on creating a safer switch device at your work. You learned that this switch is being used in landmines which you are morally opposed to. What is the common good ethical approach to this dilemma?
What is you should continue to work on the project to make them as safe as possible.