PHILO( FREEDOM IN THE CONTEXT OF MORALITY) Flashcards

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Deals with the systematic questioning and critical
examination of the underlying principles of
morality.

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Ethics

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Ethic Comes from the Greek word

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Ethos

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characters of a culture

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Ethos

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Morality comes from the latin word

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mores

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the customs including the customary behavior of a particular group of
people

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mores

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Meant to answer the question “What is good?

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Normative Ethics

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It pertains to certain norms or standards for goodness
and badness, rightness of wrongness of an act.

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Normative Ethics

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Questions the basis of assumptions proposed in a
framework of norms and standards by normative
ethic

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Meta-Ethics

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where its standards of
morality are based

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moral framework

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Examines the presuppositions, meanings, and
justifications of ethical concepts, and principles.

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Meta-Ethics

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describes how we apply normative theories to specific issues

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Applied Ethics

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Folkways

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by William Sumner

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Our notion of what is right stems from man’s basic
instinct to survive by who?

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William Sumner

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formed from society

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Sanctions, customs and habits

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threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule

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Sanctions

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a traditional and widely accepted way of
behaving or doing something that is specific to
a particular society, place, or time.

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Customs

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settled or regular tendency or practice,
especially on that which is hard to give up.

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Habits

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As an existentialist

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Jean Paul Sartre

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he claims that “man is condemned to be free.”

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Jean Paul Sartre

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an unconstrained free moral
agent in the sense that he always has a
choice in every aspect of his life.

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man

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“Man is condemned to be free.”

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The statement asserts that freedom is inherent in the human condition, and therefore, man is entirely responsible for how he utilizes it.

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“Man is nothing else but that which he
makes of himself” who wrote this?

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Jean Paul Sartre

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Humans are shaped by their present decisions, not their past or circumstances, and have the freedom to define their own life path and identity.

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“Man is nothing else but that which he
makes of himself”

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“You are free, but this freedom is not
absolute”who wrote this?

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Jean Paul Sartre

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You are free, but this freedom is not absolute
a remark implying that, while individuals have the freedom to create and act on their own decisions, this freedom is not limitless.
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He wrote the book entitled, Ethics: The Modern Conceptions of the Principles of Right
John Mothershead
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two conditions for morality
Freedom and obligation
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assumed when one is making his choices
Freedom
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agent that is taking full responsibility for his actions
Freedom
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one’s duty to himself to exercise this freedom as a rational moral being.
Obligation
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a deliberate human action
Conduct
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It is the result of reflection where the human person is endowed with the capacity to think using his rationality and to weigh the consequences of his actions
Conduct
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not capable of the act of deliberation or reflection.
animals
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What animals have is
Instinct
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why are some animals able to solve simple problems?
Animals have pre-reflective morality since they are not capable of what human can do
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is budgeting actions.
moral judgements
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the most important class of moral judgements because it has reference to the judger’s own future.
moral decision
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Not all moral judgements are
moral decisions
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wrote the book entitled, Moral Reasoning: Ethical Theory and Some Contemporary Moral Problems
Victor Grassian
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He introduced the confusion between “what one ought to do and what one would be inclined to do?
Victor Grassian
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Answers the question what we ought to do according to a normative ethical system
Intellectual choice
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Deals with how a person will act according to a given situation
Practical choice
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Our quest however, is not the psychological one of what an individual would as a matter of fact be inclined to do in a given situation but, rather, the normative one of what he morally ought to do. The mere fact that an individual might be inclined to act in a particular way does not show that is the way he should ac
Victor Grassian
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was one of the most influential philosophers in the history of philosophy.
Immanuel Kant
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The thing as it appears to an observer
Phenomena
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The thing-in-itself
Noumena
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The thing-in-itself
Das ding an sich
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claimed that man’s speculative reason can only know phenomena and can never penetrate to the noumenon.
Immanuel kant
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an ethic based on duty.
Deontological ethics
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Deontological Ethics came from the greek word
Dein
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– something that we are unconditionally obliged to do, with no regard to the consequences
categorical imperative
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Provides a priori knowledge (before experience)
Pure Reason
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– Provide a posteriori knowledge (after experience)
Pure Intuition of Space and Time
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responsible for our capacity to recognize what is good through the will
Practical reason
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Immanuel Kant called he practical reason as?
Godwill
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which he claimed as the only thing good in-itself, without qualification
Immanuel Kant called this the Goodwill
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Act only on that maxim, through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law
It means that we should only act on principles that we would want to become universal laws, applicable to everyone in all situation. Kant believed that this principle was a fundamental requirement for moral behavior and that it was a necessary condition for any action to be considered morally right
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Act only on that maxim, through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law who quote is this?
Immanuel Kant
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Teleology came from the root word
telos,meaning end, goal, or purpose
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It is mostly base on consequences.
Theological ethics
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s construed as the maximization of pleasure and the avoidance of pain in order to promote happiness
Utilitarianism
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is the summum bonum or the ultimate goal for utilitarianism
happiness
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had the notion that pleasure is quantifiable
Jeremy Bentham
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Bentham’s Hedonic Calculus
Intensity Duration Certainty
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was more concerned with the quality of pleasure rather than the quantity.
John Stuart Mill
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are usually employed for propaganda purposes.
Emotive term
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They are considered emotive because they are emotionally loaded
Emotive term
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A value statement in nothing else than a command in a misleading grammatical form.
Alfred Jules Ayer
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an attempt to make a universal statement using “all” based only on a few cases observed.
Hasty generalizations
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inference that A is the cause of the occurrence of B.
(Post Hoc Fallacy)
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This is a defense mechanism recognized by psychologists
Rationalization
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This is the process of offering justifications or reasons to cover-up or clothe an already arrived at decision meant to hide one’s true negative or destructive motive, to become an acceptable course of action.
Rationalization
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Quality of pleasure
John Stuart Mill
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Pleasure if quantitable
Jeremy betham