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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