Ethics - Unit One

Virtue Ethics

• Ethical actions are commanded by a divine being

• Morality is determined by putting an emphasis on reason

• Maximizing pleasure while minimizing pain

• Character based ethics. Being rather than doing

Moral Relativism

• Morality is determined by putting an emphasis on reason

• Morality is determined by one's self interest

• Morality is subjective in nature

• Ethical actions are commanded by a divine being

Utilitarianism

• Maximizing pleasure while minimizing pain

• Ethical actions are commanded by the divine

• Morality is subjective in nature

• Character based ethics

Ethical Egoism

• Morality is determined by putting an emphasis on reason

• Morality is determined by one's self interest

• Morality is subjective in nature

• Character based ethics

Ethical Rationalism

• Ethical actions are commanded by a divine being

• Morality is determined by one's self interest

• Morality is determined by putting an emphasis on reason

• Morality is subjective in nature

Divine Command Theory

• People live together in accordance with an agreement that establishes moral and political rules of behavior

• God created the world according to natural laws

• Ethical actions are commanded by a divine being

• Who you become rather than what you should do

Natural Law Theory

• God created the world according to natural laws

• Ethical actions are commanded by a divine being

• Morality is determined by putting an emphasis on reason

• Morality is determined by one's self interest

Social Contract Theory

• People live together in accordance with an agreement that establishes moral and political rules of behavior

• Morality is determined by putting an emphasis on reason

• Focuses on being rather than doing. Who you become rather than what you should do

• a contract that states how you must act ethically and morally within a workplace

The process of determining or discovering right and wrong

• Anthropology

• Ethics

• Morality

• Metaphysics

Refers to the end result of ethics

• Ethics

• Morality

• Metaethics

• Anthropology