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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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