7 questions
The ethical action is the one that provides the most good or does the least harm.
The Rights Approach
The Common Good Approach
The Utilitarian Approach
The Virtue Approach
The view that ethical actions treat all human beings equally-or if unequally, then fairly based on some standard that is defensible.
The Fairness or Justice Approach
The Rights Approach
The Utilitarian Approach
The Common Good Approach
The view that ethical actions ought to be consistent with certain ideal virtues that provide for the full development of our humanity.
The Utilitarian Approach
The Rights Approach
The Common Good Approach
The Virtue Approach
The view that the interlocking relationships of society are the basis of ethical reasoning and that respect and compassion for all others-especially the vulnerable-are requirements of such reasoning.
The Rights Approach
The Fairness or Justice Approach
The Common Good Approach
The Utilitarian Approach
The belief that the ethical action is the one that best protects and respects the moral rights of those affected. This approach starts from the belief that humans have a dignity based on their human nature or on their ability to choose freely what they do with their lives.
The Utilitarian Approach
The Rights Approach
The Common Good Approach
The Virtue Approach
What is ethics?
What we feel is right or wrong
Following culturally accepted norms
The standards of behaviour people ought to follow
Religious imperatives
Following the law.
What is a worldview?
Our beliefs that form a lens through which we see what happens around us.
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What the world could see if it had eyes
Our beliefs about the value of the world.