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10 Cards in this Set
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Descriptive statements |
Claims about the way the world is i.e. the world is round |
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Normative statements |
Claims the way the world ought to have been i.e. I should get dressed before noon |
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Philosophical Ethics |
Philosophical Ethics is the reasoned attempt to resolve important practical dilemmas. Its conclusions are action guiding. That is, it tells us which actions are permissible |
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Moral agent |
Anything that can act for moral reasons (who can say, “I will do x because it is the right thing to do”) |
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Moral patient |
Entities toward whom or which we may have duties; we will have to take the interests of such entities into account in ways that may affect what we are justified in doing. The interests of moral patients count in our moral deliberations. |
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Environmental ethics |
The investigation of the scope of our duties to certain non-human entities: non-human animals, plants, species, ecosystems, the biosphere |
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Meta-ethics |
Studies abstract questions, like what is "good" and "right" |
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Permissible |
Class of actions that are morally allowed/or right - split into optional or obligatory |
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Impermissible |
Class of actions that are morally disallowed/or wrong |
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Supererogatory actions |
One of two optional actions: going above and beyond the call of duty |
