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ETHICS Midterm Reviewer

This document provides an overview of ethics and discusses several key concepts. It defines ethics as the empirical study of moral decisions and describes how ethics examines what is morally right and wrong. It also outlines the differences between normative ethics, which addresses human behavior and whether acts are right or wrong, and meta-ethics, which studies the meaning and interpretation of moral statements. Additionally, it discusses the importance of ethics in allowing people to distinguish right from wrong and make rational decisions, while being sensitive to others.

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ETHICS Midterm Reviewer

This document provides an overview of ethics and discusses several key concepts. It defines ethics as the empirical study of moral decisions and describes how ethics examines what is morally right and wrong. It also outlines the differences between normative ethics, which addresses human behavior and whether acts are right or wrong, and meta-ethics, which studies the meaning and interpretation of moral statements. Additionally, it discusses the importance of ethics in allowing people to distinguish right from wrong and make rational decisions, while being sensitive to others.

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ETHICS Midterm Reviewer

Module 1 – What is Ethics?


1.0 Ethics (or moral philosophy)

 described as the empirical study of moral decisions.


 a discipline concerned with what is morally good and evil, right and wrong.
 often refers to any scheme or philosophy of universal ideals or beliefs.
 Greek word “ethos” - tradition, habit, character, or attitude.
 not only about the nature of specific courses of action, but it is also about the goodness of people and
what it means to lead a decent life.
 a systematic analysis of the nature of human actions. It is concerned about the correctness and
wrongness of the act. - is deemed to be right or wrong, based on the intent, circumstances, or character
of the act itself.
 a very important discipline because it involves critical thinking, as it explores and describes
fundamental beliefs, standards, ideals, and traditions.
 a higher level of human discipline.
 ethics is divided into normative and meta-ethics.
Normative Ethics

 which concerns human behavior in general, is to address our questions about the essence of human
behavior.
 examine whether or not a particular act should or should not be carried out.
 seeks to examine how human beings respond to a moral question.
 aims to clarify and prescribe common expectations on what human beings should do to interact with
others in society and in a meaningful way.
 two fields of normative ethics: moral philosophy and applied ethics or practical ethics.
 Moral Philosophy
o deals with moral ideas such as what human beings "must do or how human beings should be."
o deals with our moral obligation, the meaning of the act, or the purpose of the act.
 Applied Ethics
o applied ethics is a philosophy that discusses strong and basic moral issues linked to abortion.

Meta-Ethics

 a discipline that relies on meaning.


 a science that is seeking to address non-moral questions about morality.
 refer to questions about the nature of moral statements, the purpose and significance of moral facts,
and concerns about the interpretation and justification of moral statements.

1.1 Importance of Ethics


 Ethics is a set of rules that allows us to say right from wrong, good from the bad. Ethics can provide
true, specific guidance to our lives.
 Several views on the importance of ethics were profounded and these are the following:
(1) through ethics people can determine the difference between right from wrong, good and bad;
(2) people can eliminate actions that do not conform to what is right;
(3) people will be very careful to the actions and decisions to make;
(4) people will not be disturbed of the internal and external factors of not doing the right thing;
(5) establish good habits of characters of a person;
(6) come up to rational decisions in facing an ethical dilemma;
(7) it makes a person responsible in the family, school and society; (8) a person becomes sensitive to
the needs of others more than himself or herself; and
(9) reminds a person to fully need conscience in decision making and a person can acknowledge the
actions made.

1.2 The Differences of Moral and Non-Moral Standards and Characteristics of Moral Standards

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