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25 Cards in this Set
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...When we have strong feelings, we may be tempted to ignore reason and go with the feelings...
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Rachels, Subjectivism in Ethics
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...if the sources of please were precisely the same to human beings and the swine...
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Mills
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...all things partake in eternal law...
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Aquinas
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...civilian life and property should not be subjected to military force...
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Lackey
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...what rules should we follow to maximize happiness?
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Rachels, Debate Utilitarianism
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...excellence seems to come to those who possess it as a gift from the gods.
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Plato, Meno
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...suppose God commands truthfullness to be right...
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Rachels, Morality on Religion
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...if each person looks after his or her own interests, everyone will be better off..
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Rachels, Ethical Egoism
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...rational people...would prefer rules of war that would maximize expectable utility...
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Brandt
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...the "laws of nature" describe not only how things are, but also how they ought to be...
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Rachels, Morality on Religion
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...pleasure and freedom from pain are the only things desirable as ends...
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Mills
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...what matters is not whether an animal has a soul... its whether they can experience happiness and unhappiness...
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Rachels, Utilitarianism Approach
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...there are two types of laws...
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MLK
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...the unexamined life is not worth living...
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Plato, Apology
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...Reason appears to bethe most advanced and delicate human faculty...
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Callicott
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...we should not think so much of what the majority will say about us...
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Plato, Crito
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...virtue is distinguished by the pleasure and vice by the pain...
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Hume
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...it could be that the practice was objectively right (or wrong) and that one or the other was simply mistaken...
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Rachels, Cultural Relativism
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...when they are tied down, in the first place they turn to knowledge and secondly they remain in place...
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Plato, Meno
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...the natural law ... is the same for us all, both as to rectitude and as to knowledge...
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Aquinas
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...utilitarianism requires him to be as strictly impartial as a disinterested and benevolent spectator...
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Mills
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...I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust...
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MLK
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...substantial destruction of lives and property of enemy civilians...
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Brandt
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Morality is...
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Rachels, What is Morality
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