Essay On Prima Facie Duty

SEVEN PRIMA FACIE DUTIES
This concept was taken from module 2"ethical theories and approaches", sub topic 2" utilitarianism and feminist approach".
This is a description if the deontological ethics which was propounded by W.D.Ross in the yea2877-1971. According to him he said there are several prima facie duties that we can use to determine what, concretely, we ought to do. A prima facie duty is a duty that is binding (obligatory) other things equal, that is, unless it is overridden or trumped by another duty or duties. Another way of putting it is that where there is a prima facie duty to do something, there is at least a fairly strong presumption in favor of doing it. An example of a prima facie duty is the duty to keep promises. "Unless stronger moral considerations override, one ought to keep a promise made."
The seven prima facie duties include the following;
1. Duty of fidelity: this duty is also known as the duty of promise keeping. It could be explicit or implicit promises made to patient. According to this ethics it says that we are bound by a duty to keep to our promise once it have been made. Example, once you promise a patient that

This duty has to do with trust. When you promise someone a thing, it creates a feeling of trust in such a one and if you don 't keep to the promise the trust is broken. Trust is something that is hard to regain once broken. When i make a promise to my kids i try as much as possible to keep to the promise i made to avoid them losing trust in me. It does not matter if there was hitches on the way, what matters to whomever a promise was made it is that it is fulfilled at the end. Though the time the promise was supposed to be fulfilled was elapsed but if you come explaining the reason for the delay and fulfilled the promise the trust will still be there. On the other, if after the delay you were still not able to fulfill the promise, the person loses trust in