Ethical Theory

- To types of Ethical theory: Social ethics, virtue ethics

Social ethics: rightness of an action with respect to others members of society

Virtue ethics: about master oneself, about what person you will want to be

(they influenced one each other)

- Basic classification: Deontological ethics, consequentialism ethics

Deontological ethics; Kant doctrine, concerns procedures

Consequentialism ethics; J. Bentham, J.S. Mill, about teleology (it means results), what results are the
best

-Normative theory: whether or not ethical statements are statements of facts, is there a moral
knowledge?

Cognitivism:

some things could be known throughout reasoning or seeing

We can know and we have a method

Non-cognitivism:

truth or falsity cannot be applied to moral philosophy claims.

There is nothing to know or we have no method to know

- teleological ethics: virtual ethics and consequential ones

Virtue ethics: virtuous one

Consequential: assestment of our actions

Act conseq.  an action X is right if and only if resulting X is at least as good as the results of any
alternatives actions.

Rule conseq.  and action X is right if and only if X is in accordance with certain code or rules

Critique  consider ends, they don’t justify the means (or the other way around); too
demanding critique, horrendous deeds, integrity challenge.