CRM/LAW C163 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Work Ethic, Tzu, Killer Croc

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Criminology, Law and Society
• Course: CRM/LAW C163
• Professor: Geoff Ward

Document Summary

04/18/2016 (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Utilitarianism (the most pleasure for the most amount of people, when the good outweighs the bad that we cause; consequentialism) Deontology (you do the right thing because it"s the right thing to do, regardless of consequences and what happens) Ethics: discerning between right and wrong, good and bad actions. Consequentialism: doctrine that the morality of an action is to be judged solely by its consequences: action based. Deontology: the study of moral obligation, ethical theory concerned with duties and rights: action based. Virtue ethics: doctrine that focuses on who we should be, rather than what we should do: don"t focus on the action; focus on who you are and what virtues you want to develop in yourself, character based. Why do we do it? (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1)