Phil 111 Examen Uno

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Ethics:

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The Study of morality using the methods of philosophy.

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We are studying applied ethics in this class

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This type of ethics applies a moral law or argument to situations and examples.

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What year did Socrates die?

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399 B.C.

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What year did Aristotle die?

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323 B.C.

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Moral Objectivism:

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*Moral rules apply to all of us, regardless of whether we accept the fact.
*A morally evil act IS evil, even if the majority of people believe its not evil.

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Moral Relativism:

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*Claim that there is no objective moral truth that we all abide by.
*Good and evil are completely dependent on whether an individual or culture views them as good or evil.
*subcategories are subjective relativism and cultural relativism.

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Problems with subjective relativism:

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1. Infallibility - SR holds that individuals are infallible in determining moral issues.
2. Moral equivalence - All sincere moral views held by each individual are equivalent.
3. Moral Disagreement is possible and shouldn't be.

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Problem w/ Cultural Relativism:

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The fact that people disagree about an historical event does not prove that a historical event did not occur.
*Whole cultures used to believe that the world was flat(wrong!)
*Nazi's and their concentration camps...