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Terms in this set (19)
The statement "Do unto others as you would like others to do unto you" is referred to as
Golden Rule
The YES or NO responses in ethical issues are known as the
ethical opinions
What is Ethics?
Is the study of morality of what is considered right or wrong.
Topics or actions that raise questions of right or wrong are known as
ethical issues
The part of human behavior that can be evaluated in terms of right or wrong is called
morality
List the 2 key criticisms discussed in Chapter 1
Relativism and legalism
What is relativism?
ethical beliefs vary widely, no universal ethical principles that apply to everyone.
What is legalism?
laws and policies to cover issues of right or wrong, ethics is irrelevant.
Some people believe that the idea of right or wrong does not exist, and the idea was created to control people's
behavior
An accepted level of behavior to which people are expected to conform.
standard
The general idea of how people should behave.
ethical principle
List the 4 major sources of ethical beliefs.
Reason, culture, authority, intuition
to expectations concerning manners or social graces.
standards of etiquette
rules of behavior imposed on people by governments.
standard of law
social expectations of people's moral behavior.
standard of ethics