6 Impartiality
Cards (13)
- ImpartialityA democratic ethical principle that official judgements and reports should be based on objective and relevant criteria, without bias or prejudice, and not take sides
- Impartiality
- Involves treating everyone as an equal rather than necessarily treating them in exactly the same way since it has been argued that sometimes individuals may be objectively judged to require different treatment
- Deontological ethicsEthical theories that place special emphasis on the relationship between duty and the morality of human actions
- In deontological ethics an action is considered morally good because of some characteristic of the action itself, not because the product of the action is good
- Deontological ethics holds that at least some acts are morally obligatory regardless of their consequences for human welfare
- UtilitarianismAn ethical theory that determines right from wrong by focusing on outcomes
- Utilitarianism holds that the most ethical choice is the one that will produce the greatest good for the greatest number
- Utilitarianism is the only moral framework that can be used to justify military force or war
- SentienceWhether or not something can feel pleasure and pain; if it can, it has at least one interest–to avoid pain–which may imply an ethical duty to these subjects
- RationalismA belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response
- Quantitative approach to utilitarianismConcerned with aggregate utility maximization (i.e., maximizing the overall happiness of everyone) and uses a hedonic calculus to determine the rightness or wrongness of actions
- Reductionist approachAn approach that is used in many disciplines, including psychology, that is centered on the belief that we can best explain something by breaking it down into its individual parts
- Bentham's fundamental axiom states that, "It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."