| A | B |
|---|
| definition of ethics | study of right and wrong |
| why study ethics | to discover reasonable principles that will help us decide what we ought to do and what we ought not to do and to appreciate the nature of a personal responsibility |
| Normative ethics | different theories or proposals for living rightly - a skeleton/structure |
| applied ethics | various specific ethical scenarios |
| Hasty generalization | a conclusion drawn from insufficient evidence |
| faulty use of authority | choosing one viewpoint and ignoring any others or twisting the opinion of a source |
| false analogy | assumptions without proof that if alike in some way then alike in other ways |
| Ad hominem | against the man |
| slippery slope | one step will lead to another |
| two wrongs make a right | bring up an argument that is not relevant to the issue |
| straw man | discussing a similar argument but not the actual issue |
| appeal to novelty | something is correct or better because it's new or modern |
| appeal to tradition | something that should stay the same because of tradition |
| appeal to emotion | trigger emotions (pity, fear, anger) to draw attention from the argument |
| Preconventional Morality | punishment and obedience & personal reward |
| Conventional Morality | the good boy/girl orientation & the law and order orientation |
| Post conventional Morality | social contract orientation (if law is unjust, change it) & universal ethical principal orientation |
| tradition of western eithics | philospher -> reason, logic / ideas->are new or just discovered |
| tradition of eastern ethics | speaking with authority using personal example, revelation, intuition, ancient wisdom, wisemen, insight time honored tradition ideas-> traditional |
| Socrates | philospher / teacher in Greece, he believe that forms were the true and infallable source of all human ideals |
| Plato | Socrates student/philosopher believe that morality and justice are intertwined |
| Cave | people whoare used to watching shadows and believe them to be true or real may violently attack or reject any one or idea that challenges their reality. |
| Golden Rule | treat others as you wish to be treated |
| absolutism | some things are always wrong |
| relativism | something are ok depending on the situation |
