PHI 1370 Study Guide - Final Guide: Forklift, Nurse Jackie, Virtue Ethics

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1370
• Professor: Ken Ferguson

Document Summary

A branch of philosophy concerned with principles that allows us to make decisions about what is right and wrong. There are 2 types of moral theory consequentialism: the rightness of an act depends only on its consequences and non-consequentialism: consequences are not the only thing that affects the morality of an act. Within the moral theory there are five major ethical theories, which includes utilitarianism. Ka(cid:374)t"s ethi(cid:272)s, ross"s ethi(cid:272)s. ra(cid:449)l"s ethi(cid:272)s a(cid:374)d (cid:374)atu(cid:396)al la(cid:449) a(cid:374)d (cid:373)o(cid:396)al theolog(cid:455). Ea(cid:272)h of these theo(cid:396)ies (cid:396)ep(cid:396)ese(cid:374)ts a(cid:374) atte(cid:373)pt to suppl(cid:455) (cid:271)asi(cid:272) p(cid:396)i(cid:374)(cid:272)iples that (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:271)e . nothi(cid:374)g (cid:449)(cid:396)o(cid:374)g (cid:449)ith his failu(cid:396)e to keep his p(cid:396)o(cid:373)ise. C(cid:396)iti(cid:272)s (cid:272)ha(cid:396)ge that his a(cid:272)tio(cid:374) is (cid:449)(cid:396)o(cid:374)g (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause i(cid:374) making a promise it has become an obligation. Act utilitarianism is unable to account for obligation engendered by action such as promising. Pledging for such actions involve something other than consequence: the difference between act and rule utilitarianism.