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10 Cards in this Set
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ETHICS |
The examination of what it means to be a good or bad human being and what makes human actions right or wrong |
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VIRTUE THEORY |
Focuses primarily on human beings as moral agents in order to determine the nature of a good human life |
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INTEGRITY |
Soundness, wholeness, or completeness across different areas of our lives |
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MORAL RELATIVISM |
Theory that there is no objective foundation for ethics |
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CULRUTAL RELATIVISM |
Different cultures have different ethical beliefs |
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UTILITARIANISM |
Concerned with discovering the supreme principle of action that can be used to judge any act as right or wrong |
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THE PRINCIPLE OF UTILITY |
Actions themselves are neither right or wrong |
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DEONTOLOGY |
One universal law |
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THE CATEGORIAL IMPERATIVE |
If an action cannot be universalized, then it is morally wrong, and vice versa |
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MORAL RIGHTS |
Rights that are the same for all human beings by virtue of their humanity |
