Ethics Revision Mock A2
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- Created on: 31-12-17 09:28
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- Ethics Mock Revision
- Utilitarianism
- Jeremy Bentham
- Motivation of Humans
- Avoid Pain
- Pursue Pleasure
- The Hedonic Calculus
- Duration
- Repetition
- Intensity
- Number of People Affected
- Remoteness
- Certainty
- The Principle of Utility
- "The rightness or wrongness of an action determined by its utility (usefulness)"
- Utility is the amount of pleasure or pain produced
- Act Utilitarianism
- Whenever possibly utilitarianism must be applied. But to each individual situation
- Motivation of Humans
- John Stuart Mill
- Higher Pleasures
- Pleasures of the mind
- Lower Pleasures
- Pleasures of the Body
- Rule Utilitarianism
- A set of rules used strictly in every situation
- Higher Pleasures
- Preference Utilitarianism
- Utilitarianism applied to a situation keeping in mind the preferences of the people involved.
- Jeremy Bentham
- Situation Ethics
- 4 Working Principles
- Pragmatism
- The decision must work towards love
- Personalism
- Puts people ahead of decision making
- Positivism
- First place to love
- Relativism
- Each situation treated independantly
- Pragmatism
- 6 Fundamental principles
- Only true good is love
- Love and justice are the same
- The ruling norm of decision making is love
- Love is an attitude not a feeling
- Only the end justifies the means
- Love's decisions are made situationally
- 4 Working Principles
- Kantian Ethics
- The Hypothetical Imperative
- "I want this to happen; so i must do this. If i do this; then this will happen"
- The categorical imperative
- The Kingdom of Ends
- A society where everyone is entitled to be treated as an ends and not a means.
- Everyone should act as though everyone else has the same human rights as them
- Humans as Ends
- A moral code treating humans with respect and not a means to an end.
- Universalism
- For it to be morally valid the person must believe that in the same situation everyone else would do the same
- The Kingdom of Ends
- Good Will
- Good will is the only pure motivation for any moral action
- Duty for Duty's sake
- The only acceptable reason for wanting to put good will into action is a sense of duty
- The Hypothetical Imperative
- Utilitarianism
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