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26 Cards in this Set
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Utilitarian Approach
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Founded by: Jeremy Bentham
Process of this approach: Greatest Good for the greatest number. |
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Problems with Utilitarian Approach
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Doesn't account for our own feelings, difficulty in assigning value, lying, cheating, and deception are all acceptable if you're producing the greatest good for the greatest number.
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Rights Approach
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Founded by: Immanuel Kant
Process: Treating people as an end to themselves and not merely as a means. Postive Rights vs Negative Rights (Positive= Provided by socety Negative= Call for non interference right to privacy) |
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Virtue Approach
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Process: Who do I want to be?
What kind of person should I be? Character (Who we are) > Action (Good or Bad) > Habit (repeated actions) |
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What is a virtue?
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Good Habit - Honesty, Compassion, Fidelity, Courage
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What is a vice?
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Bad Habit - Trying to avoid or break it.
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What do we need to better our character according to Aristotle?
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Self-Discipline
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What do we need to worsen our character according to Aristotle?
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Self Indulgence
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Common Good approach
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Founder: Rawls
Process: Does my choice strengthen or weaken the Common Good? Certain conditions that are equally to everyone's advantage. |
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Justice
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Treating equals equally and unequals unequally.
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Justice/Fairness Approach
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Process: Am I giving people what they deserve?
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Three forms of Justice/Fairness
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Social/Distributive, Corrective Retributive, Getting back at others; not revenge though.
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Stereotypes
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conclusions people give to specific groups of people based on looks, size, religion, etc.
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Universe of Obligation
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how you set your priorities and obligations in your own world; the groups you feel are most important to you in your life
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How can your Universe of Obligation change?
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You're UOO can change depending on what you are introduced to in your life and what you are exposed to
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When was the first shot of WWI?
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1914
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When did the US get involved and why?
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1917, 1. Lusitania: British passenger ship sunk by Germans without Warning. Killed number of Americans.
2. Zimmerman Telegram - Telegram to Mexico intercepted. |
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Weimar Republic
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German republic of 1919–33
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Reichstag
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German Capital
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Treaty of Versailles
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treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans
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Mein Kampf
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Hitler wrote a book about his life and history
- means “My Struggle” - wrote it when he was in jail |
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Feuhrer
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leader/ruler/king of Germany
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Complacency
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feeling that everything is fine until its too late
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Complicity
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participating in or associating with a wrongful act
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Concordat
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agreement with Pope and ruler of government dealing with Church matters
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Reich Church and Confessing Church:
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Christianity’s roots came from Judiasm
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