Germany Jahrgangsstufe 13 Catholic Religious Education
Chapters: 2
1. Human sociality in light of faith
Foundations of ethics · Ethics of life areas
- Ethics: How to Decide What Is Right – Ethics (moral philosophy) asks what we ought to do and why. Values such as honesty, kindness, fairness and respect guide choices. Three main theories help: consequences (utilitarianism, Bentham and Mill: most good for most people), duty (Kant: act on rules you could want everyone to follow; treat people as ends, never only as means) and virtue (Aristotle: build good character; virtue is the mean between extremes). Conscience is our inner sense of right and wrong. Freedom brings responsibility. Meta-ethics asks what "good" means and whether values are universal or relative. Applied ethics deals with the environment, animals, work, friendship and peace.
2. Existential questions and Christian answers
Truth claims: what can I know? · Christian ethics: what should I do? · Future hopes: what may I hope? · Life plans: what is a human?
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