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    This document provides an overview of the key concepts in ethics that will be discussed, including: 1) It outlines the main branches of ethics - normative ethics, metaethics, and applied ethics. 2) It discusses the main ethical theories that will be analyzed - consequentialism, non-consequentialism, ethical egoism, act utilitarianism, rule utilitarianism, and Kantian deontology. 3) The purpose of ethical theories is to provide frameworks for determining right and wrong and to establish overall moral standards through critical assessment of competing views.

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    GEETHIC - A philosophical study of morality; not scientific

    CHAPTER I 1. Normative Ethics


    The Value of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell - What is morally right/wrong?
    - Sought in its uncertainty 2. Metaethics
    - No philosophy = a life imprisoned in prejudices derived from common sense - Analysis of nature of moral judgements and specifying appropriate
    from habitual beliefs of his age methods
    3. General Normative Ethics
    Branch Problem Methods - To advance and provide a reasoned justification of an overall theory of
    moral obligation, thereby establishing an ethical theory that provides a
    Philosophy as an Academic Pursuit of Wisdom general answer

    Metaphysics 4. Applied Normative Ethics


    - Does God exist? (God is omnipotent; Philo > a problem) - To resolve particular moral problems
    - Can we time travel?
    - Are we free? CHAPTER II
    Epistemology
    - Are we capable of knowing?
    - What is knowledge? Topic – subject matter
    - Can we know the laws of nature? Issue – dilemma

    ETHICS Ethical issues


    - What is a good person? - uncertain answers / black and white
    - Is there a universal standard of morality? - whether or not
    - Dialectic (Socratic method) which is the logical analysis, phenomenology,
    feminism, post modernism
    CHAPTER III

    ETHICAL THEORIES

    The Functions of Ethical Theories in Ethical Discussions


    - Ethical theories as frameworks determining what is right and morally
    wrong
    - Provides an ordered set of moral standards
    - Competing ethical theories needs critical assessment

    Common Formula of an Ethical Principle


    - An action X is good if it is y; an action x is bad if it is z

    General Ethical Theories


    1. Consequentialism
    2. Non-consequentialism
    Teleological Ethics
    1. Ethical Egoism
    2. Act Utilitarianism
    3. Rule Utilitarianism
    Deontological Theory
    1. Kantian

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