ethics

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is a reflection on what it means to exist as a person, who is rational and free and seeks to do good

Its aim is to help students understand the implications of human freedom and the basis for acting in a way that recognizes and honors that freedom

Standards that help guide one's behavior, actions, and choices

Consistent set of rules that are widely published, generally accepted, and usually enforced

Reasoning involved
-Beyond rules
-usually considered universal
-for the survival of the society

-adhere to what is described
-Hard and fast rules
-relative society/culture
-for the survival of the individual

serve as compromise on people's boundaries.

Explicit or understood regulations governing conduct
-Forceful; you HAVE to abide by even when you don't agree
-We follow rules

-An idea or thing used as a measure, norm, or model in comparative evaluations
-Individuality; virtue; people rise up in the situation to increase their likelihood of success
-We live up to OWN standards

Moral standards

-about the kinds of actions people believe are morally right or wrong
-may be called moral values or moral principles

Non Moral standards

-unrelated to moral or ethical considerations
-either not necessarily linked to morality, or by nature lack ethical sense
-technically, religious standards, some traditions, and legal statutes are non- moral principles, though they can be ethically relevant depending on some factors and contexts

involve serious wrongs or significant benefits, ought to be preferred to other values, are not established by authority figures, have the trait of universalizability. are based on impartial considerations, are associated with special emotions and vocabulary

CHARACTERISTICS OF Moral standards

is usually depicted as being free of bias or prejudice

indicates the practical or action-guiding nature of moral standards

Moral Experience

-encompasses a person's sense that values that he or she deems important are being realized or thwarted in everyday life.
-This includes a person's interpretations of a lived encounter, or a set of lived encounters, that fall on spectrums of right-wrong, good-bad or just-unjust.

a conflict in which you have to choose between two or more actions and have moral reasons for choosing each action

individual, organizational, structural

3 levels of MORAL dilemma

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