Ethics 2

• Ethics

  This provides a justification of what makes the human person's actions good.
• Conventional

  A particular nature of ethics which tells us that something is good based on the social consensus.
• Mores

  The Latin word for 'character'
• Ethics

  It deals with the study of the morality of human action.
• Perspective

  A nature of ethics which tells us in black and white if the action is good or bad.
• Applied- ethics

  A branch of ethics dealing with concrete moral issues e.g. homosexuality or abortion.
• Morality

  The formal object of ethics
• Human Act / Act of human

  A kind of act which does not require deep thinking.
• Religion

  This relies on the divine will to deem an act as good or bad.
• Human Act

  The material object of ethics.
• God

  The ultimate source of morality in religion.
• Ethos

  The Greek word which means 'custom'
• Meta-ethics

  A branch of ethics which is primarily concerned with the study of meaning and epistemological foundations.
• Buddhism

  What religion explicitly condemns the slaughter of animals?
• Speciesism

  This is described as a prejudice or attitude of bias in favor of one's own species.
• Sentient

  This is the ability of animals to feel pain through their senses.
• Rationality

  The ability of man to employ logic and reasoning.
• Peter Singer

  Who is the philosopher arguing for the idea that animals have rights?
• One of the nature of ethics is Conventional, which means that the human person follows

  a social consensus to determine whether an act is good or bad.
• The case of abortion is deeply examined under Applied-ethics
• As an academic discipline, ethics takes human act as its material object.
• Ethics as a philosophical discipline solely relies on reason, logic, and experience.
• Religion relies on the will of the divine in determining whether an act is immoral or not.
• According to Peter Singer, animals have rights and they are equal to human beings.
• The irrationality of animals is one of the reasons why speciesism thrives to debunk the equality of man and animals.
• Speciesism refers to the belief that humans are superior than other living things because we belong to a different species.
• Under the idea of sentientism, animals are capable of making a moral judgement.
• Speciesism manifests in cases such as animal experimentations or large-scale farms.
• Humans are both rational and sentient.
• knowledge-Freedom-Freewill

  3 Essential elements of Human Act.
• conventional-perspective-logical-normative

  4 Nature of ethics
• Utilitarian-virtue-duty-naturalLaw

  Ethical Theories under Normative ethics
• Self-preservation

  At the heart of man's exploitation of nature is the first law of life which is?
• Habit

  A lasting readiness and facility born out of frequently repeated acts.
• 1970's

  What year did the birth of environmental philosophy or environmental ethics took place?
• Invincible Ignorance

  A type of ignorance which renders the act involuntary which means that the agent is free from moral liability.
• Biocentric Approach

  This is an approach to environmentalism that gives importance to all life forms.
• Passion

  In moral philosophy, these are the emotions that propel the individual to act.
• Vincible Ignorance

  A type of ignorance which emphasizes that the agent who acted out of ignorance could or should have avoided it with due diligence.
• Inner Environment

  What is the environment that is unique to humans, the environment where man encounters himself?