Exam 3 Vocab

Question 1

The doctrine that no valid moral principles exist, that morality is a complete fiction

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Ethical nihilism

Question 2

The doctrine that the moral rightness and wrongness of actions very from society to society and that there are no absolute universal moral standards binding on all men.

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Ethical relativism

Question 3

The prejudicial view that interprets all of reality through the eyes of one’s own cultural believes and values

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Ethnocentrism

Question 4

The view that isolated individuals make up separate universes, that only he or she is worthy of moral consideration

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Moral solipsism

Question 5

Moral principles themselves depends on one’s culture

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Strong dependency

Question 6

The ethical theory that states that all moral principles are justified by virtue of their acceptance by an individual agent him-or herself

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Subjectivism

Question 7

The application of moral principles depends on one’s culture

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Weak dependency

Question 8

When a statement has factual content we can “cognize” it’s truth value, i.e. whether it is true or false

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Cognitive

Question 9

The equating a moral utterances with emotional expressions, or merely express feelings

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Emotivism

Question 10

The problem of determining whether values are essentially different from facts, whether moral assessments are derived from facts, and weather moral statements can be true or false like factual statements.

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Fact-value problem

Question 11

The view that is a fundamental mistake to move (logically) from statements about what is the case to statements about what ought to be the case

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Fallacy of deriving ought from is

Question 12

To link moral terms with some kind of natural property

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Naturalism

Question 13

When a statement lacks factual content

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Noncognitive

Question 14

Recommending or commanding that others adopt one’s attitude

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Prescriptive

Question 15

A statement is meaningful if and only if it is either tautological or empirically verifiable

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Verification principle

Question 16

The thesis that there are objective universal moral principles, valid for all people and all social environments

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Moral objectivism

Question 17

The view that there exists an eternal moral law that can be discovered the reason by looking at the nature of humanity and society

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Natural law theory

Question 18

Moral principles that can never be overwritten; they are exceptionless

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Absolute principles

Question 19

More rules that are binding only initially, on “first appearance,” until overridden by a more urgent duty

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Prima facie duties

Question 20

A minimally-basic objective set of principles necessary for the good life within a flourishing human community

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Core morality

Question 21

The thesis that a core set of moral principles is universally valid, applying to all people everywhere

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Moderate objectivism

Question 22

A bad effect must not be the means by which one achieves a good effect

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Means-end condition

Question 23

The intention of an act must be the achieving of only a good effect, with the bad effect being only an unintended side effect

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Right-intention condition

Question 24

The ethical theory that states that all moral principles are justified by virtue of their cultural acceptance

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Conventionalism