Ethics extra credit

1. Virtue Ethics (pay attention to the "golden mean!")

Focuses on character and becoming a certain kind of person. Golden mean: desirable middle ground between two opposing vices

Utilitarianism

moral theory should apply to everyone. It focuses on everyones happiness and wellbeing, not just on one person’s interest

Deontology

prioritizes the action, and ficuses on duty/rules regardless of the consequence.

Intention, action, consequence

The sequence of morality ___->___->___

Act Utilitarianism

choose the ACTION that creates the most happiness or benefit for the most people

Rule Utilitarianism

People should follow rules that generally produce the greatest happiness and well being for the greatest number of people.

Deontological normative ethical theory

Divine command theory is a type of which normative ethical theory

Normative ethics

The moral principles that guide decision making for ethics

Meta ethics

What do morals/ideas terms mean?

Applied ethics

Applying ethics to real-life issues

Virtues

Human excellence that allows humans to make good decisions

Examples of virtues

Wisdom, kindess, respect, discernment, selfess

Teleology

Prioritizes outcome/consequence

good actions> justify> whatever happens

Deontology

Trolley Problem

Utilitarianism & deontology