PSYC 2030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Eth
29 Jan 2015
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* branch of philosophy dealing with values and motives. * the rules or standards governing the conduct of a person or group of persons. * a particular system of principles and rules concerning duty, whether true or false; rules of practice in respect to a single class of human actions; as political or social ethics. 1953: governing code; apa asked its members using critical incident procedure to provide examples of unethical conduct that they had first-hand knowledge of. Set of principles that is morally correct. * cultural relativity: examples from clinical practice miles & august study. Banality of evil evil isn"t something that is exotic but banal. Case of homosexuality: there is now biological evidence in genes/hormones that help to explain this phenomena against the law to discriminate against them (1st edition of book: 1955 was seen as psychological/pathological disorder, in need of treatment) but editions over the years have changed.
