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WHAT IS ETHICS?
Ethics is the branch of study dealing with what is the proper course of action for man. It answers the
question, "What do I do?" It is the study of right and wrong in human endeavors. At a more fundamental
level, it is the method by which we categorize our values and pursue them.
ETYMOLOGY
ETHICAL THEORIES
JEREMY BENTHAM
An English philosopher
He wrote about the greatest happiness principle of ethics.
He said that “Happiness is the greatest good”
Identified as the natural moral preferability of pleasure.
NATURE OF MAN
CONFUCIUS
SUBJECTIVISM – we value that the person is the sole determinant of what is normally good or
bad
PSYCHOLOGICAL-EGOISM – theory that is motivated by self during actions or desire, situation,
self-interest, self-serving motive at the root of everything
ETHICAL-EGOISM – prescribes that we should make our ends as our own interest; act in a way
that is beneficial to others, but we should only do that if it is ultimately beneficial for ourselves
CULTURAL RELATIVISM – observable or acceptable in one culture may not be in other culture
BIOETHICS
• Created in 1932 by Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor (Rotary International President 1954-55), when asked to
take charge of an aluminum cookware company facing bankruptcy.
• Translated into over 100 languages and published in thousands of ways as a simple measuring stick of
ethics.
• Is it the TRUTH?
MIDTERM
EXISTENTIALISM – concerned with finding self and the meaning of life through free will, choice, and
personal responsibility.
ONION
Symbolizes “TRUESELF”
“AGERE SEQUITUR ESSE” – action follows being
2 KINDS OF LAW
SOURCES OF LAW
1. SUICIDE
Latin “SELF” (pronoun) and “TO KILL” (verb)
The act of human being intentionally causing his/her life.
Causes/Reasons
Despair/Loneliness
Mental Health Disorder (Depression, Alcoholism, Schizophrenia, Drug Abuse)
Financial Difficulties
Interpersonal Problems (Family, Love life, Other Undesirable Experience)
Methods
Hanging
Pesticide Poisoning
Firearms/Bladed Objects
Blunt Force Trauma (Jumping from a building/bridge, transmission line)
Stepping Infront of a train
Car Collision (*Allusion – one moving object collided with one not moving object)
Exsanguinations, Bloodletting, Slitting of one’s wrist/throat
Kamikaze (honorable death)
Hara-kiri (suicide bombing)
2. STERILIZATION
Vasectomy (male)
Ligation (female)
3. EUTHANASIA
4. DRUG ADDICTION
5. ALCOHOLISM
6. ABORTION
7. SELLING OF ORGANS
FINALS
COMMUNITY
LAW ENFORCEMENT
PROSECUTION
“prosecute”
Probable cause (findings)
o Facts and circumstances antecedent to the commission of the crime sufficient for a
cautious man reliable.
JUDICIARY
CORRETIONAL
LAW
RELIGION
o “THEOS” – God
SEXUAL ETHICS – is a study of a person’s sexuality and the manner by which human sexual conduct must
be exercised
PORNOGRAPHY – is the explicit manifestation of sexual matters presented in different forms of media