ethics prelim reviewer, Summaries of Nursing

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ETHICS =} ethos = custom or character NORMATIVE ETHICS METAETHICS {> studies the rightness or wrongness of a human action 5 5 cree DO GOOD WHAT AT ALL IS "geod... TIMES! __.. FOOD? SaaS ot SES happines’-svists=adherents of appied ethics . DIFFERENT FIELDS: BEINC ~ BUSINESS ETHICS ETHICS MORALITY - BIOMEDICAL AND "theory" of right action | — "practice”, rightness or ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS and the greater good } wrongness of human action ~ SOCIAL ETHICS 3 ws "systematic study" "prescriptive! of the underlying principles |= tels us what we ought to do af morality = exhorts us to folow the right way Terrance McConnell (1994): “Morality is characterized as an ‘end-governed rational enterprise’ whose object is to equip people with a body of norms that make for peaceful and colectively satisfying coexistence by faciitating their living together and interacting in a way that is productive for the realization of the general benefit”, ETHICS * SCIENCE OF MORALS MORALITY* PRACTICE OFETHICS _ TYPES OF ETHICS 1. NORMATIVE ETHICS (PRESCRIPTIVE) = seeks to set norms or standards that regulate right and wrong or good and bad conduct 2.METAETHICS (DESCRIPTIVE) = dims to understand the nature and dynamics of ethical principles, and the way we learn and acquire moral belefs (Sumner, 1967) 3. APPLIED ETHICS = actual application of ethical or moral theories for the purpose of deciding which ethical or moral actions are appropriate in a civen situation