PHIL 3000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Act Utilitarianism, Injustice 2, Egotism
17 Aug 2018
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Ethics law religion: religion does ask for a high ethical standard and can be used as a motivation. However, ethics should not be identified with religion because it cannot be confined to one: law incorporates ethical standards which citizens must subscribe to. However, law can deviate from ethics: ex. slavery, ethics is an examination of what we ought to do or norms of behavior. Is it possible to give a non-begging answer: we can never justify our moral beliefs and ideas. A view that that their beliefs and values are morally superior to all others: ethical imperialism a situation where a code or a ethical behavior or attitude is imposed on another community or society. Right in the narrow sense they are all right to do and all right not to do. Types of values: used to evaluate people and other things but not actions, subdivision: intrinsic vs extrinsic value a.
