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25 Cards in this Set
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Ethics?
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The value theory of how one ought to act
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Arguement?
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String of claims in which premise has a conclusion
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Validity?
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An arguement is valid if and only if its premise is true, guarantee the truth of the conclusion.
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Soundness?
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An arguement is sound if and only if it is valid or sound.
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What is the minimum conception of morality?
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The core of any good moral theory.
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2 necessary conditions for minimum conception of morality?
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-Judgments backed by good reasoning.
-Impartiality |
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What is Euthyphros question?
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What is piety?
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Conceptual Analysis?
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Necessarry and sufficiant conditions
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What is piety?
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X is pious if and only if x is God-loving.
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What is Euthyphro's diliema?
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-Is x pious b/c it's loved by God
-Is x loved by God b/c it is pious |
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What won't Mavrodes argue on theism?
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-Morality requires belief for God
-Moral terms can be defined in religious terms -Religious facts intell moral facts |
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What is a Russallian World?
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A world that arises from a chance collission of atoms.
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What is prima facia?
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First gut reaction
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Duties to moral obligations?
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-Prima facia
-All things considered duties |
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3 facts to moral obligations.
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-They're overriding
-They're performed regardless of consequenses -They are ubsurd in a Russallian world |
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Russellian Atheism?
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-Humans are accidental collections of atoms
-World's deep features -Morality is a superficial feature associated w/ humanity |
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Platonic Atheism?
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-Humans might not be an accident
-Objective goodness is among the world's deep feature |
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Platonic Atheism's strongest response?
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-Since objective goodness is among the deep features, it's unsurprising we have moral obligations
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Russellian Atheism's stronges response?
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-Moral obligation is strange, basic, and an uneplained fact
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Theological Voluntarism?
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The view that ethics depends on God's will
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3 primaray moral concepts?
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-Rightness
-Wrongness -Obligation |
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Divine Command Theory?
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An action is morally obligatory if and only if: God commands that it be performed and : if it is morally obligatory what makes it it so is God's commending that it be performed
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Divine Chrisitian Love?
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-Dichotom
-Love of neighbor |
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Cultural Relativism?
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Myth to say one culture is better than the other implies there is some moral associated with it
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Cultural Relativism is______?
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Self Refuting
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