Introduction to Ethics
About This Book
We are constantly faced with making choices. Some of these will be trivial such as what outfit to wear today, some will be much more serious issues, even involving life and death. We offer that all decisions we make are fundamental to our character, and that they will shape the kind of people we become. This is why decisions have to be made carefully, and with ethics in mind. While there are not usually simple answers to our questions and decision-making, this does not mean there is NO answer, o
| Category | humanities |
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| Subject | Ethics and moral philosophy |
| Year | 2023 |
| Authors | |
| Chapters | 32 |
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| License | Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Chapters
- Ethics, as a field of study, is sort of like a tree with 10,000 branches—branche
- 3 Ethics Explored
- 4 Types of Ethics
- 5 Professional Ethics
- 7 Ethical Dilemmas in Philosophy
- 8 The Origins of Philosophy: The Greeks and Us
- Primary Navigation
- 14 What is Ethical Judgement?
- 15 Rationalization as Excuse
- 16 Defense Mechanisms
- 17 What Should You Do?
- 18 Taking Action
- You are an employee at a fast-food restaurant in charge of the grill. It’s busy
- 24 Logical Fallacies
- 29 Moral Relativism
- 31 Types of Relativism
- 33 Analysis of Relativism
- 34 Egoism
- 36 Divine Command Theory (Part 1)
- 37 Divine Command Theory (Part 2)
- 38 Utilitarianism
- The ethical theory of utilitarianism, the idea that we have to maximise the amou
- 43 Kantian Ethics (Overview)
- 46 Kantian Ethics (Criticisms)
- 48 Aristotle’s Doctrine of the Mean
- 49 Virtue Ethics
- Sexism and Gender Discrimination
- Introduction
- 57 Animal Rights
- 60 Electronic Forum
- 63 Writing Essay Exams
- 64 Guidelines for Philosophy Papers