all topics

• Ethics


  Examines the rational justification for our moral judgments; it studies what is morally right or wrong, just or unjust
• Moral standards


  The sum of combined norms and values
• Non-moral standards


  Standards by which we judge what is good or bad and right or wrong in a non-moral way
• Etiquette


  The set of norms of personal behaviour in polite society, usually occurring in the form of an ethical code of the expected and accepted social behaviours that accord with the conventions and norms observed and practised by a society, a social class, or a social group
• Law


  A rule made by a government that states how people may and may not behave in society and in business, and that often orders particular punishments if they do not obey, or a system of such rule
• Aesthetic


  • A set of principles concerned with the nature and appreciation of beauty, especially in art
  • The branch of philosophy that deals with the principles of beauty and artistic taste
• Religion


  • The belief in and worship of a superhuman power or powers, especially a God or gods
  • A particular system of faith and worship
• Dilemma


  • A situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives, especially equally undesirable ones
  • A difficult situation or problem
• Culture


  Refers to the shared values, beliefs and norms of a specific group of people. Culture therefore influences the manner we learn, live and behave
• Moral development


  A process through which a human being acquires sensibilities, attitudes beliefs, skills and dispositions
• What shapes culture?


  • Political leadership
  • Big events
• Cultural relativism


  Refers to the idea that the values, knowledge, and behavior of people must be understood within their own cultural context
• Ethnocentrism


  The practice of viewing and judging someone else's culture based on the values and beliefs of one's own