front 1 What is ethics? | back 1 Ethics is a branch of philosophy that seeks to understand the nature, justification, and founding principles of mural rules and the systems they compromise. |
front 2 Micro-ethics | back 2 Individuals view of right and wrong = personal ethics. |
front 3 Macro-ethics | back 3 "Global" view of right and wrong laws, religion, norms, morals, codes of conduct. |
front 4 Philosophical ethics | back 4 Injury about ways of life and rules of conduct, general pattern or way of life. |
front 5 Religious ethics | back 5 Religion provides a moral code for appropriate behavior, prospect of divine justice helps us tolerate the injustices in life. |
front 6 Situational ethics | back 6 Refers to a particular view of ethics, in which absolute standards are considered less important than the requirements of a particular situation. |
front 7 Two ancients philosophers helped shape the early development of ethics. | back 7 Socrates and Confucius |
front 8 Socrates | back 8 The father of ethics. Socrates taught Plato who taught Aristotle. |
front 9 Confucius | back 9 Influenced by the political conditions of his region. Initiated Confucianism. |
front 10 Normative ethics (2 types) | back 10 Virtue and nonconsequential |
front 11 Virtue ethics | back 11 Consequential theories, utilitarian ethics, ethical egoism |
front 12 Nonconseguntial theories | back 12 Duty-based ethics, denotological ethics |
front 13 Alternative approaches | back 13 Aristotle's virtues, natural law ethics, ethical relativism |
front 14 Meta-ethics | back 14 Ethics of ethics. Considers general issues such as, the meaning of "right/wrong" or "good/bad" the origins of morals, whether moralityshould vary for different people, etc. |
front 15 Normative ethics | back 15 Involves the standards which right and wrong are determined within or guided by a society. 3 different approaches: virtue-based, consequential, duty-based |
front 16 Virtue - Based Ethics | back 16 Individual values determine ethical issues, encouraging the practice of virtuein habits. |
front 17 Consequential Ethics | back 17 This balances good over bad consequences. Utilitarianism una egoism. |
front 18 Utilitarianism | back 18 The most widely known approach to this area, resolves ethical dilemmas maintains that what is best for the majority is the best solution. |
front 19 Egoism | back 19 Decisions are made for a persons own self-interest. |
front 20 Duty - based ethics | back 20 Deontology or rights- based ethics. Kant's ethics |
front 21 Deontology | back 21 Does not permit the greater good to override an individual's right. |
front 22 Kant | back 22 Consequences are irrelevant. |
front 23 Maxims | back 23 Are rules of action that guide behavior and can become universal laws. Maxims are objective and based on rational thought. |
front 24 Natural law ethics | back 24 Thomas Aquinas. What is good and is proper to human nature. Humans naturally inclined toward moral codes. |
front 25 Applied ethics | back 25 The issue must be controversial in the sense that there is more than one viewpoint. The issue must be classified as a moral |
front 26 Ethical relativism | back 26 Not one ethical theory that covers every situation, it's all relative. |
front 27 Virtue ethics | back 27 Highest good for people. Right actions evolve from character, and the virtuous person has the type of character that does the right thing. |
front 28 Ethical decision making | back 28 The entire healthcare profession and services are based on decisions. Professional knowledge combined with skill plus a caring attitude make for the best patient care knowledge. |
front 29 Three-step ethical decision-making model | back 29 Is it legal? It is balanced? How does it make me feel? |