PHLB09H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Primary Care Physician, Euthanasia, Palliative Sedation
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Moral theory and ethics: how we ought to behave, what is right and wrong, what has value and why. Morality: a formal system meant to generate co-operative behavior and regulate interpersonal social relations through practical action guidance and conflict resolution. Metaethics: involves considering whether morality can exist, whether morality can be justified, what the nature of morality is, what the sources for morality are, and what is the nature of moral statements. Normative ethics: comprises the statements and principles that tell people how to behave to live a moral life. Applied ethics: the study of morality and the problems associated with very specific practical contexts, such as medicine, research, business, engineering, or advertising. Subjectivism: the view that an individual decides what to do according to his own conscience because all i(cid:374)di(cid:448)iduals a(cid:396)e e(cid:395)uall(cid:455) (cid:858)(cid:396)ight(cid:859) a(cid:374)d (cid:374)o one is wrong. Ethical relativism: the view according to which a majority in the individual culture, society, or country decides what is morally correct.
