Moral psychology

What best describes me in the moral philosophy when making conclusions that best represents my personal and workplace when making decisions is Utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is defined as an individual decides on decisions based on everyone. “Utilitarianism is a form of consequentialism because it rests in the mind that it is the consequences or results of actions, laws, policies, and so on that define whether they are good or bad, correct or wrong” (Fieger, 2014). Agreeing to our text…

What constitutes a moral action? How do we as people decide what the most morally correct options are? Depending on perspective and cultural differences basic moral values are subject to change, but that isn’t the only thing affecting how we evaluate morality. As can be illustrated by the theories of ethicists Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill, sometimes our ideas of what makes something moral are more important than the action itself. Kant was a German philosopher who was born during the 1700s…

PHI2600 Ethics Research Project Paper Abbie Guile Moral Relativism, Emrys Westacott Morals have many components that play into what is considered right or wrong, and this is where moral relativism comes in. Moral relativism is the standpoint of where the morals are coming from. This gives us more of an explanation to where individual’s morals originate from and help us understand them. An example of this could be someone’s culture, because his or her standpoint is different from someone that…

life has had to make a decision of whether to choose one alternative over the other, while neither of them would provide amiable results. This is basically the definition of what an ethical dilemma means; ‘‘a process by which individuals use their moral base to determine whether a certain issue is right or wrong’’ (Carlson et al. 2009, p. 536; see also Tenbrunsel and Smith-Crowe 2008). The way people react when being put in a similar situation, gives us a lot of feedback about them. Their…

In order to understand what is considered right and wrong, we must be able to understand ethics. Ethics are moral principles that govern an individual’s behavior, but also what a human should do in life when facing situations. In the article “Thinking Ethically” by Manual Velasquez et al, we are introduced to 4 different types of ethical approaches; Utilitarian, Rights, Fairness, and Common-Good Approach, in which we are able to analyze ethics for a more profound meaning. By grasping these…

What is an ethical dilemma? An ethical dilemma is a situation where a choice must be made between two options, but neither resolves the problem ethically. The use of the 1918 influenza as dual use research is the eptiome of an ethical dilemma. The 1918 influenza was a pandemic that killed approximately 20-50 million people (Trilla et al. 2008). Recently, it was revived from extinction to be used as dual use research. Dual use research is a termed applied to research that is intended for benefit…

wrong? How are these moral truths known to be so? A well-known proposal to answer this moral dilemma is the notion of Utilitarianism as presented by John Stuart Mill, in Exploring Ethics. Utilitarianism attempts to solve all questions of morality by presenting criteria that must be met in every situation at all times for a decision to be the morally right thing to do. Through utilitarianism, Mill hypothesizes a philosophy that is theoretically applicable to every universal moral issue. Utility…

ethical and moral or neither it is important to understand that ethics are moral principles that govern an individual’s behaviour and human conduct, and that morality is the principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong. The two are similar yet different because ethics is interested in the good that humans tend towards such as happiness and freedom, while morality is interested in the ways the humans can attain the good (Page 8, ISG) An individual cannot be judged ethical or…

Moral Status Theory: Case Study The term moral status according to encyclopedia.com is the idea of putting emphasis on certain item, thing, or an individual. There is the importance that the value placed on the thing should be well considered with much interest. Moral status is not a new idea or having definition as some think it to be. However, there is much to the understanding of the concept of moral status. For some years now, there is the ongoing debated about the human embryo, is there any…

strong beliefs about what's right and wrong. Yet even though morals can vary from person to person and culture to culture, many are universal, as they result from basic human emotions. We may think of moralizing as an intellectual exercise, but more frequently it's an attempt to make sense of our gut instincts. People go through certain emotions that causes to get upset and it can also throw their morals out of whack. You can have good morals when you're not upset but one thing can go wrong…