philosophy midterm 1400
Terms
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- flaw
- fallacy
- describes the way something is. stating a fact.
- descriptive
- prescriptive:
- the way things ought to be
- this is the most common in ethics
- prescriptive
- neutral
- amoral
- "self"
- ego
- emotivism
- morality based on feeling
- what is altruism?
- doing good just to do good. not receiving any gain from it.
- what did thrasymachus believe in?
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-survival of the fittest (weakest pushed away)
-justice is power-justice belongs to those who have power -
-what did socrates believe?
-was this different than thrasymachus? -
-people naturally want to do good.
-yes - justice is...
- inherently good
- justice is not only ---- but ----
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extrinsicly good
intrinsicly good. - what does extrinsic mean?
- means to an end
- what is an intrinsic example?
- you like the thing itself or you like doing something without getting any gain from it.
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what is divine command theory
-and what is an example? -
-morals based on a higher power
-ex. 10 commandments - who is the moral authority in divine command theory?
- God
- divine command theory is a form of what theory?
- objective
- comes from us.
- subjective theory
- comes from outside of us
- objective theory
- "deon"
- duty
- who came up with deontology?
- concht
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what is an example of externalities from the video "the corporation"
and why do they perform this action -
-dumping waste into a stream
-minimize cost - what is utilitarianism?
- most good for the most number of people
- who came up with utilitarianism?
- jeremy bentham
- how do you calculate utilitarianism?
- calculate the good and bad consequences
- who had different views than bentham about utilitarianism?
- john stuart mills
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-act utiliarianism:
-rule utilitarianism: -
-bentham
-mills - who agreed with bentham and believed in equal consideration?
- singer
- what is equal consideration?
- suffering is equal, pain is equal.
- what did regan believe?
- we have a duty to pets and children, but in order to matter morally, you must be able to sign a contract
- why do children and pets matter according to regan?
- because we care about them.