Final Flashcards
Nonmoral (amoral)
Value neutral
Immoral
Morally wrong
Regulative ideas
Transcendental ideas
Bridge gap between phenomenal and noumenal
Kantian idealism
Knowledge = mind + sensations
Critical philosophy
Kants effort to asses pure reason
Phenomenal reality
The world as we experience it
Noumenal reality
Reality independent of our perceptions
Theoretical reason
Empirical world
Practical reason
World through our eyes
Hypothetical imperatives
Rules that tell us what to do under specific conditions
Categorical imperative
Act as if the maxim of thy action were to become a universal law of nature
Practical imperative
Principle of dignity
Kingdom of ends
Everything is an end
Psychological hedonism
All beliefs are based on pleasure
Impossible to do otherwise
Ethical hedonism
The belief that although possible to avoid pleasure.
It is wrong to do so
Principle of utility
Always act to premote the most happiness
Mill changed benthams hedonism to include
Quality to pleasure
Higher
And lower
Absolute idealism (hegelian)
Monistic
Ansolute Mind
Dialetic (hegelian)
3 step pattern
Thesis, orginal idea
Antithesis, new idea
Synthesis, combination of both