ethics vocabulary for test 2
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- holiste
- whole
- recidivism
- rate of return
- Infanticide
- mass killing of babies
- polyandry
- woman has more than one husband
- farthur
- in principal "measurable"
- polgamy
- man has more than one wife
- further
- can not be measured
- antropologist
- (Ruth Benidict) scientific study of an origin
- sentient
- posesing reason
- repetoire
- range or number of skills... of a person or group
- aberrant
- deviating from what is normal
- inversion
- taking on gender role of opposite sex
- afront
- intentional offence or insult
- dicta
- law
- infirmity
- A failing or defect in a person's character
- pyre
- when someone dies you burn the body on a pile of wood
- injurious
- harmful
- apartheid
- practice of racial segrigation
- hedonism
- any ethical theory witch makes pleasure or pain basic fundamental in evaluating morality is a form ofhedonism
- impetus
- an impelling force, an impulse
- privation
- absence
- postulate
- basic principal
- reverance
- respect for
- visceral
- instictiue
- catagorical
- absolute
- epicurcus
- (greek philosopher) belief that pleasure is the highest good
- imperitive
- (noun) comand
- deontology
- look at the action (kant)
- maxim
- general truth
- features of punishment
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1. unpleasent
2. deliberately imposed
3. for an offence
4. by an authorized agent - manifested
- shown
- vitiated
- lessen the effects of
- exogamic
- marraige outside of a spacific group
- affinal
- related by marriage
- megalomaniac
- an obsession with extravagant things or actions.
- consequences of punishment
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1. rehab
2. deterent
3. direct prevention - retributiuism
- theory/ eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth/ punishment is a good thing
- relativism
- wether it is right or wrong is based on time, place, or religious beliefs (benidict)
- objectivism
- either right or wrong (kant, mill, rachels)
- meta-ethics
- theories about ethical theories
- intrinscally good
- good period
- extrisically good
- getting goodness from the results
- impungers
- those whose attack as false or questionable those who challange
- teleology
- look at the results of the action
- indissoluble
- not able to be broken up into smaller peices
- psychology
- the theory of life
- refutation
- the act of refuting
- greatest happiness principal
- weather that action promotes the greatest happiness for the reatest number of people involved
- superfluous
- unnessisary
- desirable
- worthy of being sought
- Genicide
- mass killing of a culture or race
- utilitatianism
- based on results of punishment