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Details Title: Chapter 16 and 18 Description: ethics and free will Total Flash Cards: 38 Created: 04/20/2005 07:15:55	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term Ethics (define) Definition a code by which to live, study of concepts involved in practical reasoning Term Normative (3 types) Definition consequestialism deontological virtue theory Term Normative (4 people) Definition bible, aristotle, kant, mill Term MetaEthics (4 people) Definition Nietzsche, Ayer, Card, Kane Term Happiness (who and what) Definition Aristotle living virtuously through the Golden Mean, start young, use reason Term Who quotes Epicurus? Definition Mill Term Emotivism (who and what) Definition Ayer ethics is simply stating your (conditioned) feelings Term Logical Positivism Definition Wittgenstein Emotivism, verified scientifically, using empirical statements Term Who dealt with the euthephro problem? Definition Aquinas Term Relativism Definition the view that there are no objective or absolute values that hold for everyone all the time Term Deontology Definition study of duty Term Subjectivism Definition where one seeks approval Term (Soft) univeralism (who and what) Definition Kane All cultures have something in common, might be burried Term Divine command theory Definition no right and wrong without god Term goodwill (who?) Definition Kant Term treat people as an end in themselves, not just means (who) Definition Kant Term Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals (who) Definition Kant Term Only do actions such that you could will them to be universal laws (who) Definition Kant Term Utilitarianism (who) Definition Mill Term Categorical imperative Definition Kant Universal Law Term Freedom (Kant) Definition being able to act according to reason Term fatalism vs determinism Definition can't change the events in the world vs you can't control your own actions Term amor fati (who and what) Definition Nietzsche love of fate Term phenomenology Definition study of things as and how they appear to us Term existentialism Definition existence proceeds essence, we determine our essence Term facticity (who and what) Definition Sartre One is abandoned in the world but is still responsible for its existence Term bad faith (who and what) Definition Sartre Not recognizing your responsibility to the world and yourself Term consequentialists Definition Mill Term deontologists Definition Kant, Bible Term Virtue Theorists Definition Aristotle Term philologist (who and what) Definition Nietzsche studies words and laws Term Tower of Babel (who and what) Definition Kane pluralism Term Nihilist (who and what) Definition Nietzsche there is no set reason why humans are here Term who uses Freudian concepts and why? Definition Hospers, to show that our unconscience determines all our actions Term hard determinists Definition D'Holbach and Hospers Term who believed in complete free will? Definition Sartre and Aristotle Term Title of Aristotle's texts are... Definition Voluntary and Involuntary actions, Happiness and the good life Term Kane's texts Definition through the moral maze, the significance of free will