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35 Cards in this Set
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What is ethics
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Figuring out all morals and why the exist. where they come from
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the order of who you ethically treat well.
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1. self
2. family 3. close friends |
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What are the two types of people that are morally sane.
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1. Gemeinschaft
2. Geselschaft |
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Gemeinschaft definition
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small town (defined by relationships with others
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Geselschaft
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being dependent, on your own disconnected from others.
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Sacrates
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Never wrote anything but plato wrote most everything he said
"all i know is i know nothing" |
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What form of writing did plato use?
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he wrote in play form
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Who was plato to Sacrates?
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Plato was considered Sacrates "disciple"
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What did plato do after Sacrates died?
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Plato used his voice to promote his own thoughts
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What is Essence
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the underlined of beauty
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Platos thoughts
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he thought everything perfect come from an alternate universe that all things are perfect. very set on his beliefs.
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How Plato view the world?
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he thought of the world as an imperfect copy of the real world.
Beauty Justice Perfection |
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Apriori
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the seeing of the perfect
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Aposterior
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the not seeing perfect
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Who was the Virtue theory made by?
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Socrates ethics
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what is the Virtue theory
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Good life ---> happinesss ----> Eudaimonia
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What is Eudaimonia?
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a state of supreme and complete contentment
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What is Anhedonia?
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the opposite of Eudaimonia (robs life of all pleasure)
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What must you have in life to be Edaimonia?
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sound/ harmony
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What is supreme enlightenment?
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1. Wisdom
2. Temperance 3. Courage |
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The 3 parts of life that have to be balanced to have supreme enlightenment
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wisdom/ reason, appetite, and passions
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If the virtue theory was in place what would there be no need for?
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Rules
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Plato said there are only 3 types of people that do not understand they are:
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1. children
2. savages 3. idiots (special needs) |
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Who taught Aristrotle?
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Plato taught him everything he knew but he went out on his own and modified everything.
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What aristotle believed
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that knowing how to be virtuous doesn't mean you are virtuous
must develop virtuous habits to be virtuous people can and knowingly do evil things |
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Epicurus
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epicurian- likes the finer things in life
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Epicurus beliefs there are only two types of pleasure they are:
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1. Physical or active (can be replenished)
2. mental |
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Epictetus wrote a book called:
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Enchirideon
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what was Epictetus book about?
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things out of your own control
1. wealth 2. appearance 3. station in life (status 4. health |
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What did Epictetus believe?
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stop trying to control what you can not control. Control what you can such as emotional reactions to thing you can not control.
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Stoictizum:
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if you hate your life then just end it.
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Descriptive Ethics is
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1. what social well-being is? and its evolves
2. at what degree is exceptable |
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Who was Hobbes?
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a dirty judge/ englishmen
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Aplus- animals
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top of the chart (food chain)
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Are Humans Aplus- animals
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no.
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