ETH 201 Notes Basic Ethics Theories, Fall 2016
Lebanese American University · Moral Reasoning · 1 page · Dr. Mahmoud Baassiri
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B. AS Ic ET H IC. AL T H EO R I E Ss visualunitime © Mark Barry 2012 (adapted from Michael Hills The How and Why of Love (Matthias Media, 2002) & Andrew Cameron's Ethics lectures at Moore Theological College)
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DEONTOLOGY
Actions are right in and of
themselves
* DIVINE COMMAND THEORY
- Actions are right if God
commands them
* Immanuel Kant (1724 -1804)
TELEOLOGY
Actions are right because
they achieve the purpose of
the agent
* NATURALISM - Actions are right
as they align with the natural
order of the world
* Aristotle (384-322 BC)
CONSEQUENTIALISM
Actions are right because of
their consequences (i.e. the
end justifies the means)
¢ UTILITARIANISM - Actions are
right if they achieve the greatest
good for the greatest number
* Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
* John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
* Peter Singer (1946-)
ACTION ETHICS VS AGENT ETHICS
thinking about doing
thinking about being
EMOTIVISM
Right living is an expression
of the emotions, rather than
of rationality
* Charles Stevenson (1908-1979) /
POSITIVIST EMOTIVISM
INTUITIONISM
Right living is instinctive
(ie. morality is universally
accessible)
* W.D. Ross (1877-1971)
VIRTUE
the moral character of the
agent
Aristotle (884-322 BC)
STOICISM
G.E.M. Anscombe (1919-2001)
Alasdair Macintyre (1929-)
Stanley Hauerwas (1940-)