Phil 101

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Deontology

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Rejects consequences as basis of morality
Duty: Principles regarding certain kinds of acts
Consider intention and motivation as morally relevant.

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Ross' Ethics

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-Conditional Duty. Overriding duty and intuition.

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Conditional Moral Duty

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Duty that i ought to fulfill if there is no more important moral duty that also applies and should override it

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Overriding Duty/ Actual Duty

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One conditional duty that turns out to be more important than the others and becomes the duty to be fulfilled.

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Intuitionist

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Maintains that we simply know, by intuition, what our general moral duties are, with no further explanation.

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Absolutist

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Holds that no moral duty may be overridden ; all duties remain binding regardless of circumstances

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Objectivist

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Can allow for flexibility in how ones moral duties might apply in particular circumstances.

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Good Will

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The only thing of fundamental worth, according to Kant. Freely choose to do something because it is ones moral duty and that duty is dictated by reason.

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Categorical imperative

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General, All encompassing principle

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Hypothetical principle

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A conditional principle that tells us what we should do if we satisfy some condition.

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Principle of Ends

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Treat everyone that is effected by your action as an end and never as a mean only.

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Mean

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Something used as a tool to attain a desired end

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End

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Goal that is valued for its own sake and that it is to be attained by employing some means

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Maxim

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A rule of conduct or behavior that one can act in accordance with

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Principle Of universal law

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Act only in accordance with a maxim that you can at the same time (rationally) will be a universal law or principle.