This document discusses ethics, including its major components and views. It defines ethics as how people behave based on their beliefs about right and wrong. There are three major components of ethics: meta-ethics, which examines the meaning of moral terms; normative ethics, which investigates how one ought to act morally; and applied ethics, which analyzes particular moral issues. The document also outlines different ethical views like deontology, utilitarianism, and natural rights. It distinguishes between personal and professional ethics as well as the difference between ethics and law.

1. ETHICS

2. Contents
• What’s Ethics
• Major Components Of Ethics
• Ethical Type / views
• Rights
• Personal And Professional Preference Of Ethics
• Definition of Law
• Ethics Vs. Law

3. What’s Ethics?
The way people behave based on how their belief about what
is right and wrong influence behavior.
Study of what it means to “do the right thing”
Ethics comes from the Greek “Ethos” meaning, character, or
what a good person is or does to have a good character.
(Jay Black and Chris Robert)

4. Major Concepts Of Ethics
• Meta - Ethics
• Normative Ethics
• Applied Ethics

5. Meta - Ethics
Meta-ethics is the branch of ethics that seeks to
understand the nature of ethical properties, statements,
attitudes, and judgments.
1. What is the meaning of moral terms or judgments?
2. What is the nature of moral judgments?
3. How may moral judgments be supported or defended?
Meta-ethical questions

6. Normative Ethics
Virtue Ethics Deontology Ethics
Consequentialism Ethics of Care
Pragmatic Ethics Role Ethics
Concept of Normative Ethics
Normative ethics is the study of ethical action. It is the
branch of philosophical ethics that investigates the set of
questions that arise when considering how one ought to
act, morally speaking.

7. Applied ethics
Applied ethics is the branch of ethics concerned with the
analysis of particular moral issues in private and public
life
An emerging typology for applied ethics
Decision ethics
Professional ethics
Clinical ethics,
Business ethics,
Organizational ethics,
Social ethics,

8. Ethical Views
Ethical theory concerned with duties and rights.
How people accomplish their goals is usually(or always)
more important than what people accomplish .
 Deontological View

9. Example of Deontology

10. A system of ethics according to which the rightness or wrongness
of an action should be judged by its consequences. The goal of
utilitarian ethics is to promote the greatest happiness for the
greatest number.
Examples for Utilitarianism:
Where there are 10 people on a boat and everyone will die unless
one gets thrown off. A utilitarian would throw someone off the
boat-probably the weakest/oldest one
 Utilitarianism
Ethical Views

11. Ethical Views
Theory of Universal rights that are seen as inherent in the natural of
people and not depend on human action or belief.
Examples:
Right to drive a car.
Right to life
Socialization and relationships
 Natural Rights

12. Rights

13. Personal And Professional Preference Of Ethics
 Personal Ethic:
Personal ethics refers to the ethics that a person identifies with in
respect to people and situations that they deal with in everyday life.
 Professional Ethics:
Professional ethics refers to the ethics that a person must adhere to in
respect of their interactions and business dealings in
their professional life.

14. Definition of Law
The system of rules that particular country or community
recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and may
enforce by the imposition of penalties.
A rule, usually made by a government, that is used to order
the way in which a society behaves.

15. Ethics Vs. Law

16. Created by: Fathima Sasna