PSYC 3110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Nuremberg Trials, Social Science & Medicine, Brain Death

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3110
• Professor: Kieran O' Doherty

Document Summary

Ethics: attempts to answer questions of right & wrong, justice & crime, virtue & vice , applied ethics. Application of ethical theory to real world problems. On a daily basis you might encounter questions of right or wrong. Ethics tries to answer questions about right or wrong. Ethics as an object of study has been around for thousands of years and is deeply important to being human. Different philosophers and religions have different answers on how we answer ethical questions. The idea of what is good for the majority is good for everyone (utilitarianism) But then you have cases like nazi germany where this isn"t true. There are many ways of defining right or wrong. In the course you have seen many examples where issues have an ethical dimension. Evidence suggests that it is a good thing. But what if someone says they don"t want to vaccinate their kids. Normative question example: essay question on who has the responsibility.