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87 Cards in this Set
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Derivative rights |
rights based on other rights |
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Fundamental rights |
natural right |
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Prima Facie rights |
absolute right that if misused can be taken away (it's contingent) |
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Absolute rights |
inalienable rights |
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Positive rights |
right to be served |
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Negative rights |
the right to chose |
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Moral Rights |
personal rights |
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Legislative |
legislate |
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T.H. Green |
“one who discerns right from wrong is the ‘author’ of the laws that he or she obeys” |
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Euthyphro (by Plato) |
– Is right conduct right because God said so, or God said sobecause it is right |
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Epicurus |
Greek Thinker. Ideas of death live well = dying well |
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Stuart Mill |
Believed in utilitarianism |
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Kant |
Deontology. moral is a duty not because God says its right but because it is an intrinsic principle we have. |
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Jean Sartre |
Existentialism and Humanism |
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Facticity of Freedom |
is a given you can’t escape from |
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Freud and Sartre idea |
the idea that behaviour is caused or chosen |
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Woodrow Wilson |
wanted freedom from war, freedom from want, and freedom from fear |
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Martin Buber |
Wrote I and Thou |
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Nelson Mandela |
the idea that “we are not born lovers or haters… we chose to love or hate” |
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Legal positivism |
law is defined by social rules or practices |
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Dawkins |
the idea that... “God is a meme (a thought)” |
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Meme |
“a meme is a thought shared between people like gene replicate… thoughts are also passes from one generation to another” |
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Sensus divinitatis |
Calvin. Idea implanted in each human being (like math) |
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Dostoevsky |
“If God does not exist, everything is permissible” |
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Hobbes |
Worte Leviathan, “Law: a social contract or covenant” |
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morals are rational |
Kant |
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Morals are just |
Plato |
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what is right is what is legal and lawful |
Hobbes |
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the idea of being a person necessitates morals |
Buber |
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Morals are virtues |
Aristotle |
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David Gauthier |
Nuclear Deterrence and Strategic defence |
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Constitution Principle |
Separation of Legislative, executive, and judicial. Checks and balances for each branch. Federalism. |
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US dropped bomb on Hiroshima |
1945 |
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SDI |
Strategic Defence Initiative |
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AMB |
Antiballistic Missle |
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Causes for WW1 |
Assassination for Franz Ferdinand. The standing army. The militarization of tanks, planes, armies. |
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Causes for WW2 |
The Treaty of Versailles, Rise of Hilter, Mussolini, and Hirohito, |
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Triple Alliance |
Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary, |
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Triple Entente |
France, UK, Russia |
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Jean Paul Sartre |
either we learn to get along, or we all perish together |
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Power Quote - John Dalberg |
Absolute power corrupts absolutely - |
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Weapons of Mass Destruction/WMD |
Bombs, chemical warfare, biological warefare |
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Cultural relativism |
Different societies have different moral codes, not every moral code is for everybody else. |
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Ethnocentrism |
one way of life is preferred to others |
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Constitutional things |
Please, Petition, prayer |
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Liberator theology |
The gospel is not just going to heaven. But taking care of the people here onearth as well, learn to share what we have with each other |
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Martin Luther King |
violence with violence Violence with non-violence Violence with non-existance |
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Passive resistance |
the act of nonviolent protest or resistance to authority or oppression |
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What is Evil |
Opposite of goodness. Opposition to goodness. Negation to goodness. An ontological parasite. |
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Moral evil |
Is the result of evil choices- Volitional |
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Natural Evil |
Famine, tsunamis, earthquakes |
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Metaphysical Evil |
A loss and A Lack. Loss of physical things like arms eyes or legs. A Lac |
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Want |
The material needs to survive in question. |
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Denial of rights |
not allowed the freedom to work, freedom of speech, freedom to travel |
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Locke |
Separate church and state. Government protects natrual rights (taken from the bible) No absolute ruler. |
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Hobbs |
Ruler must have absolute power. Ruler must be absolute. |
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"If we are left to our own devices we will cause chaos and it leads to revolution." |
Hobbs |
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Machiavelli said... |
we need a smart ruler |
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Bellum omnium contra omnes |
War of all. against all. |
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Magna Carta |
the right to life and limbs |
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What does democracy stand for? |
Of the people. By the people. For people - Abe Lincoln |
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Ayn Rand |
Wrote two books: The virtues of selfishness. The objective of ethics |
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Value |
is that which one acts to and keep it |
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Virtue |
is that by which one gains and keeps it |
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Reason |
Source of knowledge and guide to action |
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Self-esteem |
pride - the value of self |
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Purpose |
goals and desires must be validated by thought process |
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Fact |
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Value |
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What is good? |
To ascribe notions of right and wrong to it |
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Normative Ethics |
Consequential. Non-consequential. Analytical. |
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Consequential |
do because of the results |
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Non-Consequential |
must do regardless of the consequences |
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Analytical |
you analyze |
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Metaethics |
deals with questions of whether there are moral ethics or not |
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Cognitivism |
there are facts |
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non-cognitivism |
there are no moral facts |
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Applied Ethics |
using what we discussed in real life. Practical application |
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Ethos |
Character - appeal to character |
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Logos |
Logic - appeal to mind |
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Pathos |
Experience - appeal to emotion |
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Scientific Approach |
Study morality by observation |
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Philosophical approach |
Normative - how humans should behave |
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Meta-ethics (descriptive): |
Deals with questions of meaning of terms |
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Conceptual: |
Meaning and linguistic analysis |
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Factual claims |
Example: “Boys engage in more immoral acts than girls” |
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Normative claims |
Anything Normative, you can make a statement for or against it |
