ETHC 3P82 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Preference Utilitarianism, Ethics In Religion, Virtue Ethics
21 Jan 2017
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How should human beings live their lives: religious ethics: explains human well-being in religious terms, philosophical ethics: provides justifications that must be applicable to all people regardless, of their religious starting points. An ethical framework: an attempt to provide a systematic answer to the fundamental ethical question, ethical frameworks provide reasons to support their answers, helps us explain decisions. Not only do ethical frameworks attempt to answer the question of how we should live, but they also provide reasons to support their answer. As the previous chapter suggested, accountable decision-making requires giving reasons to justify our actions. Ethical frameworks seek to provide a rational justification for why we should act and decide in a particular way. Anyone can offer prescriptions for what you should do and how you should act, but philosophical ethics answers the (cid:498)why? (cid:499) question as well by connecting its prescriptions with an underlying account of a good and meaningful human life.
