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MODIFIERS AND MORAL PRINCIPLES Flashcards

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Characteristics of Moral Principles

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Reasonability
Prescriptivity
Impartiality
Overridingness
Autonomous from Arbitrary Authority
Publicity
Practicability
Universalizability

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Something is right and wrong regardless of what the majority decides or says

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Autonomous from Arbitrary Authority

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A moral rule should be applicable to everyone, without exception, provided of course that all people are in relevantly similar situations or context

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Universalizability

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Prime and ultimate importance

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Overridingness

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passions do not lessen voluntariness, but may even increase accountability. This is because they are the direct results of the will which fully consents to them instead of subordinating them to its control.

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Consequent passions

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negation of knowledge

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IGNORANCE

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Acts done because or out of intense fear or panic are simply _____. Moral accountability is extinguished because consent was not exercised when the act was performed. Actions in this sense exempts the agent from any moral and legal responsibility.

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involuntary

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We can always challenge on logical grounds the tyranny of numbers and tide of public opinion matters of right and wrong

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Autonomous from Arbitrary Authority

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essence of morality

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Reasonability

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Further means that ethical standards must not be over what an ordinary human is capable of doing

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Practicability

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renders an act involuntarily. A person cannot be held morally responsible or liable if he is not aware of the state of his ignorance.

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Invincible ignorance

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They are the factors that affect to a considerable extent man’s inner disposition towards certain actions.

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MODIFIERS OF HUMAN ACTS

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Moral standards must have hegemonic authority

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Overridingness

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Should not lay too heavy burden on people

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Practicability

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Moral standards are supposed to apply to everyone regardless of one’s status and situations in life

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Impartiality

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Any moral norm must be workable

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Practicability

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Self-interest does not have a place in a proper moral standard

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Impartiality

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The obvious reason for this is that principles are made and promulgated to render advice as well as assign praise or blame to certain behavior

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Publicity

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Keeping them in secret defeats the very purpose why they are created.

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Publicity

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You do not hide something that you really think is genuinely good and noble.

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Publicity

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Moral standards should stand on their own logic independent of the arbitrariness of the majority

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Autonomous from Arbitrary Authority

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Acts done with fear are ___________. This is so since the person acting with fear is acting in spite of his fear, still very much in control of his conduct. The person concerned remains responsible of his action.

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voluntary

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passions do not always destroy voluntariness, but they diminish accountability for the resultant act.

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Antecedent passions

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use or application of force or aggression

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Violence

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We want to make a genuine ethical claim, we must not allow our own invested interest to prevail and decide on matters of right and wrong.

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Impartiality

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This means that they should tower over all the other standards or norms of evaluation, whatever may be.

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Overridingness

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These modifiers affect human acts in the essentials qualities of knowledge, freedom, voluntariness and so make them _____ perfectly human.

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less

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5 modifiers of human acts

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Ignorance
Violence
Passion
Fear
Habit

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If moral principles are indeed impartial and of primordial value, then by all means, they have to be made public.

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Publicity

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Moral principles are intended to advise people on what to do or to avoid

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Prescriptivity

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This is significant precisely because the moral accountability of the doer of the action is also increased or decreased, as the case may be.

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MODIFIERS OF HUMAN ACTS

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strong emotion that influences human actions to strongly commit to do an act

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Passion

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readiness , born of frequently repeated acts, for acting in a certain manner.

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HABIT

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as a strong or powerful feeling or emotion. They are those bodily appetites or tendencies as experienced and expressed in such feelings as fear, love, hatred, despair, horror, sadness, anger, grief and the like.

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Passion or concupiscence

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Moral rules should not be impossible to achieve or else they are not for men but for angels

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Practicability

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For what use is a norm if it is simply impossible for anyone to follow

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Practicability

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The morally right thing to do is always the thing best supported by sound arguments

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Reasonability

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usual way of behavior that someone has unconsciously do
repetition of action
sometimes automatic and involuntary actions we normally do

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Habit

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Thus, moral rules are not subject to the whims and caprices of those in power.

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Autonomous from Arbitrary Authority

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Disturbance of mind; threat; harm

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Fear

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Moral rules should not advance the interest of the few or worse, of one person alone

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Impartiality

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Practical or action-guiding nature of morality

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Prescriptivity

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absence of knowledge or unaware of something or someone chooses not to learn something

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Ignorance

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Actions done by force of habit are ________ in cause, unless a reasonable effort is made to counteract the habitual inclination. This means that if the person will simply let his habit take control of his action without doing anything about it whatsoever, then we can say that one is morally accountable by allowing the habit to determine one’s act.

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voluntary

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They are not the only standard where human actions can be judged or assessed but they should take precedence over others

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Overridingness

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does not excuse a person from his bad actions;on the contrary it actually increases their malice

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affected or pretended ignorance

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Moral judgments must be backed up by good reasons or argument, if we want to discover the truth about what’s good and bad, we must let our feelings be guided as much as possibly by reason

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Reasonability

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It would be self-defeating therefore to just keep them from public knowledge

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Publicity

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it is deliberately aroused by the will in order to ensure a more prompt and willing operation

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consequent passion

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It tries to influence the way we act in accordance with certain rules of conduct

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Prescriptivity

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Any action resulting from violence is simply __________. The person whose physical external conduct emanates from and controlled by violence should always be in defiance in terms of one’s will.

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involuntary

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We can be confident that something is right if it is reasonable

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Reasonability

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should always be offered to unjust aggressors. But if resistanceis impossible,o r if there is a serious threat to one’s life,a person confronted by violence can always offer intrinsic resistance by withholding consent; that is enough to save one’s moral integrity.

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Active resistance

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it arises spontaneously before the judgment of reason and before the will can control the psychological situation

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Antecedent passion

55
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This simply means that moral rules and principles must be made public if they are to serve as guidelines for our actions

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Publicity

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