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17 Cards in this Set
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Hedonism
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Hedonism is a moral theory according to which someone's life goes best when they maximize their pleasure.
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Fact / Value Distinctive
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A fact is an objectively true statement, such as "This is a philosophy class." It is usually described with the word "is".
A Value is a moral view that someone has on an issue, and is usually described with the word "ought", such as "you ought not to murder". |
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Normative
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Normative is a view that expresses how things should or ought to be
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Descriptive
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Descriptive is a view that describes how things are.
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Success Theory
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The Success Theory is the theory according to which a person's life goes best when they achieve all of their desires.
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Objective List Theory
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The Objective List Theory is a moral theory according to which a person's life goes best when they get the things in life that are intrinsically valuable things.
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Divine Command Theory
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The Divine Command Theory is a moral theory according to which God commands whether something is good or not.
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Naturalistic Fallacy
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A naturalistic fallacy is claiming that good cannot be described by natural policies such as "pleasant" or "desirable"'
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Amoralism
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Amoralism is a moral view according to which a person has an indifference towards morality.
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Psychological Egoism
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Psychological Egoism is a moral view according to which humans are always motivated by acts of interest, even in what seems to be acts of altruism
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Explanatory Constraint
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Explanatory Constraint is a moral view according to which if something cannot be described with a list of facts, then there is no reason to believe that those list of facts exists.
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Subjectivism
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Subjectivism is a moral view according to which morality is relative to the individual
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Relativism
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Relativism is a moral view according to which morality is relative to society
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Vulgar Relativism
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Vulgar Relativism is a moral view according to which we cannot interfere with another society because what they view as "right" is right to them.
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Dogmatism
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Dogmatism is a view someone can possess in an argument in which they are sure they are right
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Humility
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Humility is a view someone can possess in an argument in which they start to consider that they could be wrong
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Agnosticism
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Agnosticism is a view someone can possess in an argument in which they have no idea who is right and who is wrong.
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