Religious Studies 1022A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Crisis Management, Deontological Ethics

• School: Western University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: Religious Studies 1022A/B
• Professor: Corrine Walsh

Document Summary

Function of humans ability to use reason: humans as rational creatures, goodness/virtue exercise of reason. Role of philosophy - state and rationally defend what morally should be. Two concerns of ethics: individual character what does it mean to be a good person", social rules governing human conduct, especially rules of right and wrong (morality) Modern social context the individual and a dualistic public-private society. Ethics is not: private, list of do"s and don"ts, crisis management. Ethics is a systematic re ection upon individual, community, institutional, and social morality, values and character. Ethics as a constant movement: descriptive = the "is", prescriptive = the ought". Worldview: english we use it to mean world outlook, framework we use to make sense of the world. Loyalties out embodied existence: faithful allegiance. Prejudices to pre" judge": the formation of a judgment without direct or actual experience. Mode of decision making how you justify what you ought to do: teleological, deontological.