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41 Cards in this Set
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What are the 3 divisions of ethics?
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Descriptive
Normative Meta-Ethics |
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What is Descriptive Ethics?
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The study of the values that people actually hold and other morally relevant facts
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This division of ethics ask the question: "What is the case?"
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Descriptive
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What is division of ethics is the description of one's view of morality?
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Descriptive
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Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology are associated with what division of ethics?
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Descriptive
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What is Normative Ethics?
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The study of theories for determining moral rightness or wrongness and applying that in concrete situations.
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This division of ethics asks the question: "What OUGHT to be the cast?"
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Normative
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What is another name for Normative Ethics?
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Prescriptive Ethics
(prescription tells you what you ought to do if you want to get better) |
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What is Meta-Ethics?
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The study of the meaning and justification of normative ethical concepts, terms, and theories
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What division of ethics is more of a theoretical analysis?
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Meta-Ethics
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Insanity Plea comes from this idea.
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Ought implies can
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This idea implies that if you can't, you are not responsible.
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Ought implies can
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Who is associated with the Is-Ought gap?
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David Hume
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What is the Is-Ought gap?
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Logical gap between what is the case and what ought to be the case
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It is a ____________ to derived a normative conclusion from purely descriptive premises.
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fallacy
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What are the 2 approaches to Ethics?
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Virtue & Duty
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What is Ethic of Virtue?
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The focus on becoming the right kind of person.
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What is Ethic of Duty?
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The focus on morally correct actions.
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"What is the right thing to do?"
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Ethic of Duty
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DOING the right thing
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Ethic of Duty
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"What person ought I to be?"
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Ethic of Virtue
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BEING the right kind of person
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Ethic of Virtue
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What is a virtue?
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A morally positive character trait
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What is a vice?
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A morally negative character trait
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Name a few examples of virtues.
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Patience, Fortitude, Honesty, and Courage
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Name a few examples of vices.
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Impatience, Weakness of Will, Dishonesty, and Cowardice
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What is one of the main parts of Ethics? |
Normative Ethics |
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What two important questions arise when talking about Consequentialist Theories? |
"What kinds of consequences are we obligated to produce?" "Consequences for whom?" |
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What two ways can you answer the question, "consequences for whom?" |
Utilitarianism Ethical Egoism |
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What is Hedonism? |
A view that pleasure is to be maximized and pain is to be minimized. |
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Consequentialist Theories believe what? |
What makes something good or bad is the consequences |
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Most say what makes something right or wrong is the amount of ___________________. |
pleasure or pain |
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"Ego" means what in Greek? |
I |
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What is Utilitarianism? |
A view that focuses on the consequences for everyone. One ought to seek the greatest good for the greatest amount of people. |
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People say that this view is NOT fair. |
Utilitarianism |
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What view omits the principle of justice? |
Utilitarianism |
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What is Ethical Egoism? |
A view that focuses on the consequences for them-self only. One ought to seek the greatest good for oneself. |
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What view sounds very selfish? |
Ethical Egoism |
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They care what happens to other people only if it benefits them-self.
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Ethical Egoism |
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"What do I get out of it?" |
Ethical Egoism |
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Out of the two Consequentialist Theories, which one is considered "more important"? |
Utilitarianism |
