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Focus on and weigh the benefits against the means.
(Is it wrong to cheat on an exam if good grades allow you to get a good job so that you can help the poor? Is it wrong to lie to your family if it keeps the family at peace?)
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What is an example of duty based ethics?
Duthy based ethics are based on the rights or duty. Duty based ethics focus on the reason for doing an action and not the consequences. Tete Adjevi-neglokpe
What is the difference between Ethics of Doing and Ethics of Being?
Ethics of doing is based on one's political thinking. Ethics of being is based on an individuals way of moral thinking.
Relativism is a subset of the following ethical system?
Freedom-based ethics
What will be an example of virtue based ethics?
Virtue based ethics are positive quality or traits that are indications of moral excellence. Some examples of virtue based ethics are friendliness, generosity and bravery.
What are the examples of compliance based ethics and integrity based ethics?
a higher rank official in the US NAVY
What are other names for entitlement-based ethics?
Entitlement-based ethics are when ethical decisions are based only on selfish reasons. Nothing else is considered and the person making the decision cares only what the impact will be for them. Other names of this type of behavior is selfish, egotistical, and inconsiderate.
A problem that occurs when using a duty-based approach to ethics is?
a problem that accurs when using a duty-based approach to ethics is
What is the difference between consequence- based ethics and ruled-based ethics?
A consequence is a result of an act: unprotected sex ---> you get pregnant ---> NOW you know and tell your kid: Protect!That is an insight from consequences and leads you probably to an ethics based on consequences.Ruled b. ethics is an ethics which DEMANDS following rules and threatens with consequences: Do this and that! If not, you have to carry consequences!
What is social ethics?
Ethics are social because it is acted in community Ethics based on Bible/Christian perspective to begin with The link between ethics and Christianity is something governed from the past and linked to today's society. THUS... Christian Social Ethics is : Christian morality based on a community
What is Christian ethics?
Ethics are social because it is acted in community Ethics based on Bible/Christian perspective to begin with The link between ethics and Christianity is something governed from the past and linked to today's society. THUS... Christian Social Ethics is : Christian morality based on a community
What is the difference between ethics based on religious beliefs and ethics based on reason alone?
An ethics based on religious beliefs claims that right and wrong are determined by something supernatural or divine such as a god. As Plato argued, a problem with this view is that it seems to make right and wrong arbitrary. Must not the Divine have had a good reason to say that some acts are right and some acts are wrong? If the Divine did have such a good reason, then ethics is based on reason that is beyond the Divine; if the Divine did not have such a good reason, then ethics is arbitrary. .
What is ethics concerned with?
Ethics in general is concerned with human behavior that is acceptable or "right" and that is not acceptable or "wrong" based on conventional morality.
