Flashcards in Chapter 4-5 Deck (42)
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Social Contract
An implicit agreement between members of society
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Implicit
Understood but not stated directly
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Group Property
Property that a group has a characteristic that an individual does not have
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Liberty
Ability to make choices and act on them
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Equal of Opportunity
Everyone has same opportunity no matter what
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Equality of Condition
Everyone has same amount of wealth and material goods
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Harm Principle
States that you can do whatever you want as long as you don't harm anyone else
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Paternalistic Law
Supposed to protect you from doing harm to yourself
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Excused
Never responsible for anything we do
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Judge
Responsible for something if you had intended or choose to cause it
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Communism
System in which poverty is owned community than privately
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Natural Lottery
Genetic distribution of natural talents and assets
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Distributive Justice
Distribution of wealth
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Retributive Justice
Concert of Law and Punishment
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Free will
Ability to make free choices up to you
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Determinism
View that every event has a prior cause including human choice
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Introspection
Ability to look inward in your own mind
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Infinite Regress
Series that goes back forever
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Reduction
Scientific phenomena at one level is explained in basic terms
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Oceans Razor
Simplest explanation is usually correct one
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Problem of interaction
Non physical mind can interact with physical body
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Principle of Conversation of Matter & Energy
Total matter and energy in a system remain constant
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Artificial intelligence
Research program used to simulate intelligent behavior AI
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Turning Test
Test of computer intelligence
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Egalitarian
Private property is source of most social problems
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Elitist
Such a thing as excellence should be rewarded
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Contractor
Best model for understanding society is social control
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Organicist
Society is like an organism that influence its members
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Libertarian
We value liberty above all other things
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Paternalist
We are willing to accept restrictions on our liberty to prevent harm from self
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Capitalist
Just because promote freedom and responsibility
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Socialist
Capitalism is unmoral because it promotes dishonesty and greed
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Rights Defender
Universal human rights because all human beings are equal
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Right Skeptic
No universal human rights just those given to use by law
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Materialist
Mind mental states are nothing more mind=brain
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Dualist
Non physical and mind physical body includes brain
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Hard Determinist
Determinism is true and we do not have free will
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Metaphysical Libertarian
We can tell through introspection we could have made a different choice yes free will Determinism is false
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Soft Determinist
Determinism and free will are incomparable
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Incompatibility
Determinism and free will are incompatable
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Mechanist
Machines already think
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