Ethics Prelims

• the word ethics come from greek word? that means?

  ethos, customs or habits
• ethics is often called?

  moral philosophy
• moral is from latin word? which means?

  mores, customs or habits
• science of customs or habits of society


  ethics
• refers to customs

  morals or morality
• mean habitual conduct or character

  ethics
• deals with our doing

  morality
• deals with our reasoning

  ethics
• the science of rightness and wrongness of character and conduct

  ethics
• learning of ethics does not guarantee?

  morality on part of person's practical conduct and behavior
• Ethics is study of?

  choices
• Is ethics purely intellectual exercise? Yes or No

  No
• Ethics is not a way of life. True or False.

  False
• Knowing what is right without changing the way we believe morally is useful knowledge. True or False

  False
• Is legality identical with morality? Yes or No

  No
• What legal is not moral. True or False.

  True
• relies on supernatural reason, that is divine revelation or authority

  Religion
• relies on natural reason, logic and experience

  Ethics
• It is the morality or the moral rectitude of human act or human conduct.

  Formal Object of ethics
• What are the two general areas or major parts of ethics?

  General and Special or Applied Ethics
• a division of ethics that mainly deals with morality of human acts and specific determinants of morality

  general ethics
• this division of ethics essentially applies the specific and fundamental norms and principles of General Ethics in various specific areas of human life and activity, both in the individual and social domain.

  special or applied ethics
• What are the kinds and types of norms

  technical, societal, aesthetic, ethical norm
• This norm has to do with survival, health and well being

  technical norm
• This norm is in need for group cohesion and for strengthening the bond that keep the community together

  societal norm
• This norm refers to typical perceptual forms like color, shape, movement, sound, feeling, emotio, and even touch

  aesthetic norm
• This norm refers to the ideal vision of an ideal stage or perfection of serves as the ultimate goal and norm.

  Ethical or Moral Norm
• What are the characteristics of moral principles.

  reasonability, impartiality, prescriptivity, overridingness, autonomous, publicity, practicability, universalizability
• Primarily judgments must be backed by good reasons.

  reasonability
• An ethical and moral rule are supposed to apply to everyone regardless of status.

  impartiality
• Practical, or actionguiding nature morality, commanding aspect.

  prescriptivity
• Moral standards must be supreme from all other standards

  overridingness
• – Moral standards should stand on their own logic independent of the of the arbitrariness of the majoriy

  autonomous from arbitrary authority
• Moral rules and principles must be made public if they are to serve as clear guidelines to our actions.

  publicity
• Moral rules should not be impossible to achieve or else they are not for men but for angels.

  practicability
• Moral rule or principle must be applicable to everyone, without exception, provided of course that all people are in a relevantly similar situation or context.

  universalizability
• Actions that proceed from insight into the nature and purpose of one's doing and from consent of free will

  human acts
• Actions that are essentially the result of his/her conscious knowledge, freedom and voluntariness or consen

  human acts
• they are action that is instinctive and are not control of the will

  acts of man
• actions are biological and physiological such as metabolism, respiration, blinking of eye

  acts of man