ARBUS202 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ethical Egoism, Virtue Ethics, Professional Ethics
20 Mar 2016
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Ethics: the study of theoreical foundaions of moral principles which govern individual behaviour and the applicaion of those principles. Ethics is not only a mater of rules, customs culture or complying simply complying with laws and eiquete. Important source of moivaion and guidance in human conduct. Ethical reasoning is more subtle than applying the appropriate algorithm to a situaion and mechanically calculaing correct results. Involves reasoned applicaion of moral theories to a given situaion. Cultural relaivism: the view that behaviour and values and relaive to a paricular culture and so dependent on the accepted norms of the paricular culture or society in which they take place. Thus it is wrong to standardize right and wrong. Ethical relaivism: the view that moral values are relaive to paricular environments: morals are subjecive to the ethical norms of diferent cultures, socieies, or environments in which they take place. This theory is problemaic because not all customs or pracices should be tolerated (ex.
