Glossary of Ethics

Virtue – A show of kindness and being sympathetic towards others.

Relativism – The moral of a action whether is to be right or wrong in one society.

Utilitarianism – Is a theory of a action in resulting for someone’s happiness and receiving from it.

Imperative – A principal that’s morally necessary such as in a marriage vow, the husband and the wife make vows to promise and love each other for an eternity.

Inclination – Following your desires, instead of following the main objective.

Intrinsic – Is a value that is consider a lie to ethics and itself is not an intrinsic value.

Injustice – Defined as the opposite of justice.

 Ambition – Honoring our desires, our values, our dreams and achieve them if you put your mind to it.

Coterminous – Based on human life

Utility – Actions or behaviors promote happiness or pleasure in the right way, however in the wrong way they tend to produce unhappiness or pain.

Benevolence – An normative statement of a moral obligation to act for the other’s benefit and prevent or remove harms that can happen.

Zealous – A lawyer that’s been informed ethical obligations to the client.

Vexation – Is a form of greed, ignore, anger and arrogance.

Commensurability – Two values of reasons and goods.

Incommensurability – Cannot be compared to each other in a certain way.

Self-indulgent – A unnecessary trait that can lead to unnatural behavior.

Sanguine – A person who experience sadness in rare moments and has something on their mind that would want to do something to get their mind off.

Metaphysical – Concerned with the primary sense or senses of reality, goodness of persons, the rightness of actions, and the best value in consequences.

Divagations – To wander or stray from a course or subject.

 Interdependent – Common set of principle that shares with one’s family or community that involves mutual and physical responsibility.

Secular – Is a theory of beliefs, ideology, moral institution, prioritizes, and religions.

Governance – The act of process or power of exercising authority or control in an organizational setting.

Good Faith – Based on the belief in the accuracy of the information or concern being reported.

Wickedness – Meaning of evil intend at will.

Ethical Paradox – It’s a choice to make when there’s between two possible moral imperatives that the observations are not in accordance with experiences or expectations.

Ethical Egoism – People who acts in their own self-interest than any one else.

Prudent – Similar to Virtue, it deliberate about what is good and advantageous to oneself, others, and life as a whole.

Karma – It does not only consider the action, but also a person intentions, attitude, and desires before and during the action which makes the person to live in a moral life, so they avoid an immortal life.

Moral Culpability – An explanation that puts forth by the person who may consult the immoral action from being caused due to intentional immorality.

Welfare –  The only thing which we have a moral reason to promote for its own sake of ethical value.

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