Unit 2 Ethics
Ethical Words Worksheet
Consequentialist Morality - the ability to produce practical moral judgements. At the very least, any moral theory needs to define the standpoint from which the goodness of the consequences are to be determined.
NonConsequentialist Morality - judges the rightness or wrongness of an action based on properties intrinsic to the action, not on its consequences.
Psychological egoism - the view that humans are always motivated by self-interest, even in what seem to be acts of altruism. It claims that, when people choose to help others, they do so ultimately because of the personal benefits that they themselves expect to obtain, directly or indirectly, from doing so.
Ethical egoism - the normative ethical position that moral agents ought to do what is in their own self-interest. It differs from psychological egoism, which claims that people can only act in their self-interest.
Care Ethics - our sense of right and wrong and our beliefs about rights we possess and duties we owe others.
Utalitarianism - the doctrine that actions are right if they are useful or for the benefit of a majority.
Act Utalitarianism - a utilitarian theory of ethics which states that a person'sact is morally right if and only if it produces at least as much happiness as any other act that the person could perform at that time.
Rule Utalitarianism - a form of utilitarianism that says an action is right as it conforms to a rule that leads to the greatest good, or that "the rightness or wrongness of a particular action is a function of the correctness of the ruleof which it is an instance.
Universal ethical egoism - the universal doctrine that all persons should pursue their own interests exclusively.
Duty Ethics - concerned with what people do, not with the consequences of their