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Are you able to name and describe the three major ethical systems we have discussed in class, both the philosophical and theological names?
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Philosophical
Deontology: Duty/Obligation Moral Absolute Utilitarianism Consequencetialism: Weighing Good/Bad Consequences Virtue Ethics Acts aim toward a goal Theological Basic Goods Theory Human Flourishing Proportionalism Virtue Ethics |
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Critique of Deontology?
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supports divine postivism
that is god makes the rules |
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Developer of Deontology?
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Kant
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Developer of Utilitarianism/Consequenctialism?
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John Stewart Mill
Jeremy Bentham |
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Developer of Virtue Ethics(P)?
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Aristotle
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Developer of BGT?
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German Grisez
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Developer of Proportionalism?
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Dan Curran
Joseph Selling Richard McCormick |
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Developer of Virtue Ethics(T)?
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Stanley Haverwas
Servay Pinkaers Alisdar McIntyre |
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Critique of Utilitarianism?
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No intrisnically evil acts
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Critique of Virtue Ethics?
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Acts aim at some goods to make us happy (What makes
people happy isnt always good) |
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Formulations of the Categorical Imperative?
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1) Act as though what you do would become universal law.
2) People should be treated as ends in themselves & "NEVER AS" as ameans |
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Example from scripture that is analogous to Deontology?
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Law is a duty/obligation
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Four Sources?
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Scripture, Tradition, Reason, Experience
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What source is important for BGT?
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Tradition and Scripture because it supports divine positivism
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What source is important for proporttionalism?
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Experience and Reason because of human flourishing
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what source is important for virtue ethics?
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Reason becuase it is rational to it
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3 fonts of moral act
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Intention, Object (what was done), Circumstances
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Single pre-requisite
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Free will and/or freedom
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Two conditions that constitute an intrinsically evil act?
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fundamental purpose. who has the right?
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four condtions of PDE?
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1. action itself must be good or indifferent.
2. my motive must be to achieve the good effect. 3. The good effect must not occur by means off the bad effect 4. there must be a proportionate reason for tolerating the evil act. |
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Ethical system more inclined to PDE?
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Deontology because deontologists wants the PDE. Not Utilitariansim because they are more interested in consequences. Not Virtue Ethics because they dont know what they want to be.
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Examples of intrinsically evil acts?
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Direct Killing and lying
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Four Models by Ian Barbour
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Conflict-->
Independence-->both address issues no overlapping Dialogue-->Sciences raises ?'s that it cant answer--> ?'s that religion usually address Integration-->Enough overlapping between both |
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What is Law?
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Law is a rule of conduct given by a competent and responsible authority, to promote the common good
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