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14 Cards in this Set
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Define Argument
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A set of statements in which one or more are claimed to provide support for or give reasons to believe another statement. A premise(reason) and a conclusion
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Define validity
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The reasons given are all true and thus the conclusion must be true
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Define deduction
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An argment that is intended to be true. The reasons given garantee the truth
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Define Induction
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An argument that is intended to provide strong support for the conclusion. The truth of the conclusion is probable
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Define Metaethics
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A form of ethics that considers general questions about the nature of morality and about the meaning of moral concepts
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Define normative ethics
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Considers questions about what one ought or should do
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Define psychological egoism
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View that all men are selfish in everyting that they do, That self-interest is the reason they are acting
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Define ethnical egotism
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A view of how men out to act. Regardless of how men do in fact behave, they have no obligation to do anything except what is in their own interest.
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Define ethical relativism
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Subjectivism: Thinking/believing
If subjectivism is true there would be no false moral judgement Conventional ethnical relativism: no longer criticise other cultures All moral judgements are a matter of human opinion |
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Subjectivism
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Something is right and its actually being right
no ethnical debates No false moral judgement Each individual determines what is right or wrong |
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Conventional Ethnical Relativism
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Cultural Differences Argument
Morality is socially constructed and is relative to a society or culture |
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Ethnical Objectivism
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The view that there are objective moral principles denial of relativism
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Deontological Ethnics
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We have absolute duties that are not affected by consequences
Doing what is right is intrinsic |
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Consequentialism
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The rightness or wrongness of an act is based on an actions consequence
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