Ethics
ETHICS
It refers to the discipline of studying an understanding human behavior and idea ways of thinking.
MORALS
It is also the individual’s personal conduct
DESCIPTIVE STUDY OF ETHICS
It is how people particularly groups, make their moral valuations without making any judgement either for or against these valuations.
NORMATIVE STUDY OF ETHICS
Conforming to or based on norms.
MORAL ISSUE
A helpful tool to recognize that a situation calls for a moral valuation.
MORAL DECISION
The choice of what to act or perform.
MORAL JUDGMENT
Judging someone’s action.
MORAL DILEMMA
An individual can choose only from a number of possible actions and there are compelling ethical reasons for various choices and not just for one obvious answer.
MORAL THEORY
It is a systematic attempt to establish the validity of maintaining a certain moral principle.
FRAMEWORK
A theory of interconnected ideas and a structure through which we can evaluate our reasons for valuing a certain decision or judgment.
IMMORAL
If we fall short to the moral thing.
GOVERNANCE
It is basically guidance towards the good desired through rules determined by reason, or more simply according to law.
PROMULGATION
It is the way to communicate to the people involved in enforcing them to better in terms of compliance of the law.
ETERNAL LAW
The assertion of the Divine wisdom that directs each being toward its proper end.
NATURAL LAW
Our natural inclination to act properly and our participation to eternal law as rational creature.
HUMAN LAW
Refers to all instances wherein human beings construct and enforce laws in their communities.
DIVINE LAW
Refers specifically to the instances where we have percepts or instructions that come from divine revelation.
ETIQUETTE
The rules governing the proper way to behave.
MANNERS
Refer to a set of rules or customs that dictate how people should behave in social situations.
POSITIVE LAW
Refers to all the different rules and regulations that are posited or put forward by an authority figure which require one’s compliance.
CULTURAL RELATIVISM
It is what ethically and relatively acceptable or unacceptable depends on one’s culture.
BERNARD BARUCH
“Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening.”
SUBJECTIVISM
It is the recognition that the individual thinking person (the subject) is at the heart of all moral valuations.
PSYCHOLOGICAL EGOISM
It states that all human actions as a matter of pursuit of self-interest.
SIMPLICITY
It conveniently identified a single basis that accounts for all actions.
PLAUSIBILITY
It is plausible that self-interest is behind person’s actions.
PLAUSIBLE
It means reasonable.
UTILITARIANISM
It operates in the understanding of ethical actions as supposed to be always aiming at the greatest good for the greater number of people.
UTILITY
It refers to the consequences of actions and behavior as useful.
JEREMY BENTHAM
Born on February 15, 1748 in London, England
An advocate of economic freedom, women’s right, animal’s right, abolition of slavery, and separation of church and state.
PANOPTICON
A system for penal management.
FELICIFIC CALCULUS
It is a framework in evaluating pleasure and pain.
JOHN STUART MILL
The author of the essay UTILITARIANISM (1861)
YUKTESWAR GIRI
GOOD MANNERS without SINCERITY are like a BEAUTIFUL DEAD LADY”
JUSTICE
It is a respect for the rights toward society’s pursuit for the greatest happiness of the greatest number.
LEGAL RIGHTS
Rights are based on the right of the citizens and the state expressed in rules
MORAL RIGHTS
It also defined as personal standards of behavior or belief concerning what is right.
NATURAL
It also refers to some kind of intuition that a person has, one which is so
apparently true to him that I unquestioned.
THOMAS AQUINAS
“Doctor of the Roman Catholic”
SUMMA THEOLOGIAE
It is a voluminous work of Thomas Aquinas that comprehensively discusses
many significant points in Christian theology.
THEORIES ABOUT ETHICS
SUBJECTIVISM
PSYCHOLOGICAL EGOISM
ETHICAL EGOISM
TWO (2) STRONG POINTS of PSYCHOLOGICAL EGOISM
1.SIMPLICITY
2.PLAUSIBILITY