Final Exam Flashcards
(22 cards)
Who is associated with compatibility?
Stace
According to stace, what is compatibility?
When an individual is in charge of the situation, he or she has freewill. When an individual is not in charge of the situation, he or she has no freewill.
What are some Criticisms of compatibility?
Based on staces terms, freewill must exist or not there is no gray area. It is black or white.
______ is the idea that you seek the greatest amount of good, for the greatest amount of people.
Utilitarianism
_____ is a series of rules that will make people happy according to Mill.
Rule Utilitarianism
What is Deontology/Kantian Ethics?
What we ought to do or what we should do
Who thought that the golden rule was flawed and selfish?
Immanuel Kant
What was John Stuart Mill known for?
Higher and lower pleasures, quality not quantity, and the rules of Utilitarianism.
______ is the idea that every person is naturally selfish.
Psychological Egoism
_____ is the idea that the ends justify the means
Consequentialism
The idea that we can choose to be selfish and that we should
Ethical Egoism
The idea of looking out for others more than themselves
Altruism
How Jesus died for us is an example of what?
Altruism
A defense of the justice or goodness of go in the face of doubts or objections arising from the phenomenon of evil in the world
Theodicy
What is also referred to as hard universalism?
Ethical Absolutism
The view that at least some moral values are universal and apply to all individuals and cultures. No grey areas, something is either right or wrong there are no in betweens.
Ethical Absolutism
What is the idea that there are shades in grey with right and wrong, there may be circumstances that make the rights or wrongs okay.
Soft universalism
The view that cultural norms determine what is ethically right and wrong
Cultural relativity
If religion could be believed in, then it should be is what he thought.
William James
The argument of whether god exists or not, and how it’s better in your interest to believe in him vs. being an atheist.
Pascal’s wager
Kierkegaard’s description of Abrahams potential sacrifice
Gods ethics overrides Abraham’s ethics. People thought he agreed the divide and command theory, may not be true, might break individual moral code if you don’t listen to gods ethics.
Critisms of Pascal’s wager
It forced you to believe in god,
