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Ethics PDF
Ethics PDF
1. Epistemology
2. Metaphysics
3. Ethics
4. Aesthetics
5. Logic
Epistemology
- study of knowledge
Metaphysics
- meta: beyond
Ethics
- Study of morality
Aesthetics
- study of beauty
Logic
Ethics
- focuses on dilemmas
Ethics
- ethos: character
- individual character
- domain of philosophy
Morality
- moralis
- human relations
- domain of theology
Characteristics of Ethics
1. Amoral
2. Nonmoral
- gun, knife
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Scientific Approach to the Study of 4 ASPECTS OF THE APPLICATION OF
Morality MORALITY
- approach is most often used in the social - religious morality is concerned with human
sciences and deals with human behaviour beings in relationship to a supernatural
and conduct
being
• philosophy
- morality and nature are concerned with
- observers make no value judgments as to human beings in relationship to nature
NORMATIVE ETHICS
- social morality is concerned with human
- deals with norms (or standards) and beings in relationship to other human
prescriptions of society
beings
ANALYTIC ETHICS
- analyzes ethical language and the rational
foundations of ethical system
SYNTHESIS OF APPROACHES
- ethics demands a reasonable synthesis of
ethical views
- beyond ethics
- theories