1. What is right or wrong? Who decides?
Ethics & Morality
What is right or wrong?
Who decides?

2. Ethics
Def.
Asks questions about the good life, about what is better and worse, about whether there is any objective right and wrong, and how we can know if there is….

3. What is ‘good’?

4. Based upon factual, or testable beliefs about an ethical situation
Knowing the difference in judgments?
Descriptive
[empirical]
Based upon factual, or testable beliefs about an ethical situation
Capital punishment does (or does not) act as a deterrent to violent crimes…

5. Judgments made about the descriptive facts.
Knowing the difference in judgments?
Normative
[moral]
Judgments made about the descriptive facts.
Capital punishment is (or is not) justifiable…

6. What makes an action good or bad?
Motive
Action
Consequences

7. What makes an action good or bad?
Motive
Action
Consequences
deontological
teleological