ETHICS

by : neo , nindi , jazlyn , charlene

 what is ethic ?
Ethic is a moral of principle or set of moral
values held by an individual group.

Ethics studies not how human beings do or act,

but rather how they should act, ethic deals with
human value judgements and morality
 ethics as a shared knowledge in the “knowledge community “
Ethics as a shared knowledge is a guideline on ethical concepts
that are generally accepted around the world.

Medical ethics
● Ethics that can shape the personal morals of individuals
● Set of values that professionals refer to any confusion

In this case, ethics is related to knowledge authorities and

accepted by the members of a group they are shared with, that is
becoming personal knowledge of each individual.
 levels of generality in ethics

- Meta-ethics

- normative ethics

- applied ethics
 theoretical perspective in normative ethics
1. did you evaluate with emphasis on the moral agent and
intentions?

1. did you evaluate with emphasis on the choice itself ,

and moral rules of right and wrong?

1. did you evaluate with emphasis on the effect on others?

1. did you evaluate with emphasis on the moral code of

the surrounding society?
did you evaluate with emphasis on
the moral agent and intentions ?
moral agent is the person
making the choice. when we
focus on the moral agent we
tend to focus only on one from
the two moral intentions and
moral characters. moral
intentions are choices made
with a purpose in the first
place. while moral characters
can also be explained as virtue
ethics which is a right act done
by a good person would do if
they are in the same situation
did you evaluate with emphasis on
the choice itself?
this talks about moral
principles where the moral
agent recognizes obligations to
follow. these obligations can be
based on reasons, where the
approach is called deontology
and based on authority, such as
religious teaching.
did you evaluate with emphasis did you evaluate with emphasis on
on the effect on others ? the moral code of the surrounding
society?
this talks about the consequences this talks about how the moral
of our choices to others. There are 3
types of consequences:
agents acts as expected in the
social context, for example
● immediate consequences
ethic of care where the moral
● longer term consequences
● the broader possible agent acts out of concern for
consequences the welfare of others within
their group of relations
so the moral agents, has to choose
the action that will gives greatest
happiness to the majority , through
imagining the consequences and
reasoning to make prediction. This
act is called utilitarianism.
 ethics and controversy
Moral controversy often catches attention in society and
people often call for ethics to help find resolutions. the
methods of ethics do not always allow a tidy solution
because there isn’t just a single line of thinking that
everyone will agree with.
But ethics does give many clear answers, regardless of
what line of argument you take, you can end up with
considerable agreement.
Examples: its wrong that in a world of plenty, millions of
children die of hunger.
 ethics and responsibility

Ethical responsibility is the ability to recognize, clarify and act

upon multiple basis according to the standards within a given
context.

Evidence of ethics and responsibility:

● Collaborations or teamwork
● Leadership roles
● Service learning
 ethics relation to cas
CAS have an aim of making the moral agent understand
deeper about ethical education.
● we do duties that we think is right to do this approach
is called deontology
● the attitude we develop from these actions are called
virtue of ethics
● how we build relations with others through CAS is
called ethics of care.
CAS also has an aim to let us understand the impact of our
action which is also called acting utilitarianism. so we can
see that CAS presents all the ethical perspective.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
● http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/introd
uction/virtue.shtml
● TOK Book