IHS 3112 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Normative Ethics, Universal Rule, Descriptive Ethics
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Mi(cid:272)(cid:396)oethi(cid:272)s: a(cid:374) i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual (cid:448)ie(cid:449) o(cid:374) ethi(cid:272)s (cid:271)ased o(cid:374) o(cid:374)e"s pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)al life tea(cid:272)hi(cid:374)gs, traditions, and experiences. Macroethics: more a global view on ethics. Ethics can be used in three distinctive ways: 1. Philosophical ethics: inquiry about ways of life and rules of conduct: 2. General pattern/ ways of life: (example: religious ethics: 3. (cid:862)mo(cid:396)al code(cid:863): (cid:894)e(cid:454)a(cid:373)ple: p(cid:396)ofessio(cid:374)alis(cid:373)(cid:895) Bioethics: making better decisions when faced with diverse and complex circumstances. We study ethics to help us make sound judgements, good decisions, and right choices; if not right choices, then the better choices. Code of conduct: generally, prescribes standards of conduct: example: defining the rules expressing duties of professionals. Differences between standards, principles, and rules: standards: used to guide human conduct by stating desired trait, principles: describes responsibilities that do not specify what the required conduct, rules: specify specific conduct. Moral judgement: concerned with what an individual/group believe to be correct behavior in a given situation.
