PHIL215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-3: Virtue Ethics, Reflective Equilibrium, Professional Ethics
7 Dec 2016
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Ethics is the student of the theoretical foundations of moral principles governing individual behaviour and the practical application of those principles. An ethical dilemma is a situation involving the conflict between moral impurities where to comply with one necessitates the transgression of the other. Perceptive theories of ethics include the judgement of an act as right or wrong as well as recommending or forbidding types of conduct. Descriptive theories of ethics include the non-judgemental empirical study of ethics in particular societies. Absolutism is the view that there exists a universally correct moral position. Relativism is the view that moral values are relative to particular environments. Cultural revitalism is the view that behaviours and values are relative to particular cultures and the accepted norms of the society they take place in. Ethical revitalism is the view that moral values are relative to particular environments and the accepted norms of the culture and society they take place in.
