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Decks in this class (51)

Ethical egoism
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44  cards
Naturalism and Bradley introduction
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18  cards
Bradley - Ethical sentences express propositions
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3  cards
Bradley - objective features of the world make propositions true or false
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5  cards
Bradley - meta-ethical statements can be seen in scientific terms
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3  cards
Part 1 - empirical study of our community
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6  cards
Part 2 - ethical language
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2  cards
Challenges to naturalism
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12  cards
Intuitionism
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7  cards
Intuitionism - what is good?
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2  cards
Intuitionism - universal and objective
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3  cards
Intuitionism - intuition is not the same as common sense
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1  cards
Intuitionism - is our moral intuition infallible?
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3  cards
Intuitionism - the contribution of H.A. Pritchard to intuitionism
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12  cards
Intuitionism - challenges
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6  cards
Emotivism intro
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1  cards
Emotivism - theory that believes objective moral laws do not exist
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2  cards
Emotivism - moral terms express personal emotional attitudes and not propositions
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3  cards
Emotivism - ethical terms are just expressions of personal approval or disapproval
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4  cards
Emotivism - explains why people disagree about morality
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3  cards
Emotivism - ethical statements are neither verifiable nor analytic
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2  cards
Emotivism - its expressions
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4  cards
Emotivism - challenges
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3  cards
Natural Law - morality based on reason
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8  cards
Natural Law - the purpose of natural law
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8  cards
Natural Law - Aquinas' four levels of law
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5  cards
Natural Law - derived from rational thought
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2  cards
Natural Law - based on a belief in a divine creator
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1  cards
Natural Law - as deontological and teleological
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2  cards
Natural Law - as the basis of morality
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1  cards
Natural Law - the use and importance of reason
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3  cards
Natural Law - 5 primary precepts
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5  cards
Natural Law - secondary precepts
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3  cards
Natural Law - the importance of keeping the precepts in order to establish a right relationship with god
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2  cards
Natural Law - The three revealed virtues
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7  cards
Natural Law - the four cardinal virtues
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5  cards
Natural Law - Internal and external acts
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5  cards
Natural Law - different types of goods
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4  cards
Natural Law - application to abortion
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9  cards
Natural Law - application to voluntary euthanasia
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9  cards
Utilitarianism - background to Bentham's Act Utilitarianism
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7  cards
Utilitarianism - Bentham's theory of utility
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10  cards
Utilitarianism - the hedonic calculus
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10  cards
Utilitarianism - additional info to Bentham's views
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4  cards
Utilitarianism - background to Mill's utilitarianism
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4  cards
Utilitarianism - Mill's changes to Act Utilitarianism
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10  cards
Utilitarianism - Mill's harm principle
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3  cards
Utilitarianism - Mill's rule utilitarianism
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11  cards
Utilitarianism - Rule utilitarianism as deontological and teleological
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3  cards
Utilitarianism - application to animal experimentation
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3  cards
Utilitarianism - application to the use of nuclear weapons as a deterrent
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2  cards

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