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Ethics ✔✔Philosophy that seeks to understand the nature, purposes, justification & founding principles of moral rules and systems they comprise
Moral Philosophy (Ethics) ✔✔The discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad, right and wrong.
Microethics ✔✔An individual's view of what is right and wrong based on personal life experiences.
Macroethics ✔✔A more global view of right and wrong.
Philosophical Ethics ✔✔Inquiry about ways of life and rules of conduct.
General Pattern (Way of Life) ✔✔Religious Ethics
Moral Code ✔✔Professional ethics and unethical behavior
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Bioethics ✔✔Addresses difficult issues as the nature of life, the nature of death, what sort of life is worth living, what constitutes murder, how we should treat people who are especially vulnerable and the responsibilities we have as human beings.
Morality ✔✔A class of rules held by society to govern the conduct of its individual members.
Morals ✔✔Ideas about what is right and wrong.
Standards ✔✔Used to guide human conduct by stating desirable traits to be exhibited and undesirable ones to be avoided.
Principles ✔✔Responsibilities that do not specify what the required conduct should be.Professional need to make the judgement about what is desirable in a particular situation based on accepted principles.
Rules ✔✔Specify specific conduct; they do not allow for individual professional judgement.
Moral Judgments ✔✔Judgments concerned with what an individual or group of believes to be the right or proper behavior in a given situation. 2 / 3
Normative Ethics ✔✔The attempt to determine what moral standards should be followed so that human behavior and conduct may be morally right. Concerned with establishing standards or norms for conduct.
General Normative Ethics ✔✔Critical study of major precepts of what things are right, what things are good and what things are genuine.
Applied Ethics ✔✔The application of normative theories of practical moral problems.
Descriptive Ethics (Comparative Ethics) ✔✔Deal with what people believe to be right and wrong.
Normative Ethics ✔✔Prescribes how people ought to act.
Meta-Ethics ✔✔Seeks to understand ethical terms and theories and their application.
Consequential Theory of Ethics ✔✔Emphasizes that that the morally right action is whatever action leads to the maximum balance of good over evil.
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