Ethics 1
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- Any position in ethics which claims that the rightness or wrongness of actions depends on their consequences
- Consequentialism
- The descriptive theory that all human motivation is ultimately selfish or egoistic
- Psychological Egoism
- entitlements to do something without interference from other people or entitlements that obligate others to do something positive to assist you
- Rights
- The belief that there are no moral values or truth
- Nihilism
- believes hold that there is a natural order to human world, that this natural order is good, and that people therefore ought not to violate that order
- Natural Law
- ations or things which we use in order to accomplish those ends
- Means
- Kant used this term when discussing the maxims, or subjective rules, that guide our actions
- Universalizability
- A moral theory that says that what is morally right is whatever produces the greatest amount of overall pleasure or hapiness
- Utilitarianism
- focuses primarily on what sort of person one should try to be
- Virtue Ethics
- "always act in such a way that the maxim of your action can be willed as a universal law" and "Act so as to use humanity, whether in your own person or in others, always as an end, and never merely as a means" An unconditional command
- Categorial Imperative
- in any given situation, any number of prima facie obligations may apply, and in the case of ethical dilemmas, they may even contradict one another. Nonetheless there can never be an unsolvable ethical dilemma.
- Common Sense Morality
- each groups beliefs are right withing that group, and it is impossible to validly judge another groups values from the outside
- Cultural Relativism
- Any position in ethics which claims that the rightness or wrongness of actions depends on whether they correspond to our duty or not.
- Deontology
- each person out to act in his or her own self-interest
- Ethical Egoism
- each person's beliefs are relative to that person alone and cannot be judged from the outside by any other person
- Ethical Subjectivism
- the moral virtues was a mean between two corresponding vices
- Golden Mean
- conditional comman that can be put as an if...then statement. Does not apply to all people
- Hypothetical Imperative
- treats everyone as equal
- impartiality
- word that kant used to refer to our sensuous feelings, emotions, and desires.
- Inclination