synthesis presentation on 7 habits,virtue ethics,utilitarianism,duty ethics
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Habits of Highly Effective Students
Virtue Ethics
Basics of Ethics and Culture
Utilitarianism
Duty Ethics
1. Be proactive
2. Begin with the end in mind
3. Put first things first
4. Think win-win
5. Seek first to understand then to be understood
6. Synergize
7. Sharpen the saw
7 Habits
Values
• Deeply held criteria
• To judge good or bad, desirable or undesirable, beautiful or ugly
Norms
• Rule or guideline
• To determine behavior in particular situations
Symbols• What things in our world mean
Language
• System of symbols to convey complex meanings
Knowledge
• The facts, beliefs and practical skills accumulated over time
Utility of anything is
Utility of anything is its usefulness in practice
The action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers
Act utilitarianism
An act is right if it results in as much good as
any available alternative
Focuses on quantity
Pleasures are all alike
Jeremy Bentham
John Stuart Mill
Rule utilitarianism
Focuses on quality
Pleasures are of two kinds:
1. Higher: mental pleasures; long termed
2. Lower: physical pleasures; short termed
Duty Ethics
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
Father of human rights or human dignity
“The Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals” (1785)