Transcription of Unit 1: Introduction to Ethics
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Unit One: Introduction to Ethics Unit Information 3 Unit Overview 3 Unit Aims 3 Unit Learning Outcomes 3 Unit Interdependencies 3 Key Readings 4 Further Readings 5 References 6 Multimedia 7 Why study Ethics ? 8 Section Overview 8 Section Learning Outcomes 8 What is philosophy ? 8 What is Ethics ? 11 Moral intuitions and critical reasoning 13 environmental and development Ethics 16 Section 1 Self Assessment Questions 20 Normative ethical traditions: identifying right and wrong 21 Section Overview 21 Section Learning Outcomes 21 Western ethical theories 21 Deontological Ethics 23 Teleological Ethics 26 Limitations of traditional normative theories 29 Section 2 Self Assessment Questions 30 Key ethical issues: whose arguments count?
This unit provides an introduction to the study of ethics and a brief overview of some of the main branches of philosophical thought about ethics. As well as introducing the central ideas that relate to environmental and development ethics and how these two areas of ethical study interare related, this unit shows why ethics as a discipline can
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