Ethics

Ethics

The Basis of Ethics: Religion

The Ten Commandments

Other CommandmentsIf a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do.(Exodus 21:7)

Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. (Leviticus 25:44)

But all creatures in the seas or streams that do not have fins and scales—whether among all the swarming things or among all the other living creatures in the water—you are to regard as unclean. (Leviticus 11:10)

Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard. (Leviticus 19:27)

Do not plant your field with two kinds of seed.Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material.(Leviticus 19:19)

Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable. (Leviticus 18:22)

The Basis of Ethics: Society

Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-82)

The Basis of Ethics: Evolution

Reason v Emotion

Motives v Consequences

Objective v Subjective

Aristotle: The Good Life

Aristotle (384–322 BCE)

Kant: The Categorical Imperative

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)

The Categorical Imperative- Problems

Bentham: Utilitarianism

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)

Utilitarianism- Problems

Kant v Bentham

Human Rights

Applied Ethics

All that is necessary for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing

- Edmund Burke

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