Health Sciences 2610F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Meta-Ethics, Relativism, Human Factors And Ergonomics

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2610F/G
• Professor: Ken Kirkwood

Document Summary

Ethics deals with: 1) community having a sense of what is allowable (what can people do or no?) We need to think about those questions regarding morals in medicine. Moral judgement you saying this should or should not happen making a moral judgment. Those questions always come up in our daily lives. Before talking about ethics, you know there are usually assumptions about what is good need to be clear about what is good or not before getting into the issues (what is in your beliefs/ethics) meta-ethics. Meta-ethics are the fundamental beliefs and/or knowledge (knowing) that contextualize your ethical beliefs. Need to always know why is something wrong or right. Making decisions based on principles and things we believe in that make sense, even though it might feel bad. Meta ethics is pure theory about right and wrong all of the ideas about making an ethical judgement. There is no meta-ethical approach to reality just theory.