Summary: Applying Ethics A Text With Readings | 9780495094999 | Jeffrey Olen, et al

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  • There is only one correct moral code which applies to everyone, everywhere, at all times.

    Ethical Absolutism
  • The rightness and wrongness is relative to each person.

    Individual Relativism
  • Ethical statements are used to evoke a predetermined response.

    Emotivism
  • Measure the morality of an action on the basis of the consequences.

    Consequentialist Ethics
  • Only pleasure is worth having for its own sake.

    Hedonism
  • The moral action is the action producing the greatest amount of Christian love.

    Situation Ethics
  • We should live according to nature as God planned.

    Natural Law
  • More concerned with cultivating character rather than following rules.

    Virtue Ethics
  • You are excused because you couldn't have been expected to know how to prevent the consequences.

    Ignorance of Consequences
  • People could not help what they did.

    The excusability of Constraints
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