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70 Cards in this Set
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What is right |
What is rational(self evident), just, good, legal |
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Oedipus |
Kills his father; determination |
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Rational |
If someone says something is wrong, it must make sense in your mind. You know 2+2=4 because you already know it. If to be wrong is wrong, then to do wrong is wrong |
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Ring of Gyges |
Plato |
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You are good based on |
Visibility, mortality |
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Absolute Right/Inalienable Right |
Your right to life. Not conditional. |
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Prima Facie Right |
are conditional. |
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Fundamental Rights |
The right to procreate, as enforced by the state |
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Natural Rights |
the right to procreate, as is enforced by nature itself |
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Moral Right |
You can choose to drink, you can choose to get married, you can choose to break the law. |
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Legal Rights |
legislated |
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Positive Right |
The right to receive service |
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Negative Right |
the right to choose without interference. |
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The Golden Mean |
Aristotle |
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Vice (lack) |
Stingy, dishonest, impatient |
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Virtue |
Generous, honest, patient |
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Vice (extreme) |
Pushover, too honest, complacent |
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Epicurus |
Pleasure, happiness, lack of pain |
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Higher pleasure |
people use their minds to solve the problems in the world |
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Lower Pleasure |
eat, drink, and be merry in moderation; prudence |
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hedonic calculus |
avoidance of pain |
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Epicurus |
“We should not fear death” |
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Albert Camus |
live in the context of absurdity rather than trying to rid ourselves of this absurdity by committing suicide |
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Pain |
an indicator for death |
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Reason |
the art of calculating conduct. |
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Epicurus |
“Is right conduct right because God said so, or God said so because it is right?” |
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Epicurus |
“An impious person is not one who rejects the beliefs of many but who attaches to God the beliefs of many.” |
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Plato |
“It is better to be just than to be unjust.” “If to be wronged is wrong, then to do wrong is wrong.” |
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Dostoevsky |
Guilt and Moral Compass |
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Epicurus said we should not fear: |
God or death |
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Altruistic |
others first (christianity) |
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Agapism |
Love |
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Essence precedes existence |
your purpose precedes your existence |
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Existence precedes essence |
your purpose is formed after you’re born. |
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Consciousness |
the capacity to know that one knows what one knows. |
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declarative statement. |
True or false |
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moral statement. |
True nor false |
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Aristotle on Deontology |
Nothing can be right or wrong without a point of reference. |
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Kant on Deontology |
Non-consequentialism and categorical imperative |
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Non-consequentialism |
What is right is right, regardless of consequence |
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Categorical imperative |
The rule is good regardless of the result |
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Deon |
Duty |
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Universalizability |
act only according to that maxim by which you can also will that it would become universal.” If something is really good, it should become a universal law. If it’s not good for everyone, then it’s not good for you. |
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Humanity as an end in itself |
Act in such a way that you always treat humanity whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never as a means, but always as an end” |
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Formula of Autonomy |
“every rational human being must act as if he/she were through the maxim. Always a legislating member in a universal kingdom of ends. |
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Seneca |
“consider each day as a separate life” |
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Kant |
Goodwill is only good will if your good thoughts are followed by good actions. |
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Act Deontology |
The act is good regardless of the consequence |
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Rule Deontology |
The rule is good regardless of the consequence |
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Martin Buber |
I-thou and I-it relationships |
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I-thou |
this relationship is a means relationship. Person to person. |
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I-it |
this relationship is a means to an end relationship. Person to object |
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Moral Autonomy Principle |
Choice/option, Freedom of choice |
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Utilitarianism |
Stuart Mill |
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Hypothetical Imperative |
based on desired consequence. The rule is good because of the result . The result determines the rule |
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Utility principle |
does it work, how to make a practical decision |
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Rule utilitarianism |
The rule is good because of the result. |
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Act Utilitarianism |
The act is good because of the result. |
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Doctrine of intentionality |
End justifies the means. |
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Index |
Printed a list of books that you could not read |
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Excommunication |
the church will throw you out to teach you lesson because there is no salvation outside of the church. |
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Interdict |
the whole country is excommunicated |
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Theistic Imperative |
what is right is right because God said so |
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Categorical Imperative |
an unconditional moral obligation that is binding in all circumstances and is not dependent on a person's inclination or purpose. |
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Hypothetical Imperative |
the result determines the rule |
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Facticity of freedom |
All are free. If all are free, you cannot be unfree. |
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Sartre |
No freedom from making choices. No exit from freedom |
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Choice |
implies projection of what is not, and negation of what is. |
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Humanistic Existentialist |
We either get along together, or we perish together |
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Womb to tomb |
everything in between the womb and tomb is important |
