Philosophy Flashcards
(29 cards)
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Philosopher
Kant
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- motives greater than action
- Always duty that is universally accepted(following what others do)
- Need to treat people like ends not means
- Act Rationally (as much as possible)
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Philosopher
Pence
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- Free until being unrational
- Do good
- Don’t do bad
- Treat sim cases similarly
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Philosopher
Socrates
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- Always challenge and question
- Try to learn from everyone
- hard to find where piety comes from(God, human, someone in between)
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Philosopher
Utilitarianism/Stuart Mill
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- Increase Pleasure and Decrease Suffering
- Need to improve societal happiness(gvt job)
- Problem: Need to judge everyone’s happiness –> Stress –> decreasing your happiness
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Philosophy
Sandel’s Justice
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- Promote Virtue
- Respect Freedom
- Maximize Welfare
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Philosopher
Plato
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- Develop virtue
- Gain at 30(fit to rule) and God
- Inate within humans
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Philosopher
Aristotle
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- Good upbringing and exp will help develop and understand virtue
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Philosopher
Stoics
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- Self-preservation defines morality
- Beyond self-preservation and nature harmony ==> Morality
- Innate
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Philosopher
Aquinas
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- Withdraw from Sin and Fear God
- Summary: More Charitability ==> More Morality
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Philosopher
Rousseau
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- Age-related morality through stages
- Morality through ages
- Age of sensation, idea, and marriage
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Philosopher
Durkheim
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- Socialization
- Loves rules and punishment
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Philosopher
Dewey
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- Wanted a better edu sys that focuses on morality and significance
- Development leads to increased rationality, socialization, and morality
- Exp
- Intentions
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Philosopher
Freud
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- Better to be irrational
- Develops through age
- Self-preservation
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Philosopher
Social Learning
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- Socialization
- Experience
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Philosopher
Piaget
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- Age-development
- Moral rules: Morality of constraint and morality of cooperation
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Philosopher
Kohlberg
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- How moral judgements are created and how they change
- Stages that you must go through and can’t go back
- Socialization
- Wanted better edu.
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Philosopher
Gilligan
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- Male and Female have distinct moral interpretations
- M: right and justice
- F: care and resposibility
- F ones Underappreciated
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Philosopher
Hoffman
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- Empathy essential in moral development
- Development structure through age
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Justice
Parts of Justice
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- Promiting Virtue
- Respecting Freedom
- Maximizing Welfare
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Act Vs Rule
What are Moral Rules
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- Have a basis which cannot be undermined
- Include philosophies we all believe important: don’t kill, steal, lie etc.
- breaking rule ==> punishment
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Ethics Basics
How do we know something
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- Knowedge
- Either building up from foundation or floating on uncertainity
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Ethics Basis
What is Ethics
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- Action
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Govt Job
State of Nature
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- When there’s no govt
- nasty, brutish, short
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Govt Job
Social Contract
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- What ppl give to another in exchange for smth else
- Ppl(liberty) to govt(safety)
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# Govt Job
Veil of Ignorance
* **John Rawls**
* No consideration of identity
* True feelings and equality under law
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# Morality: Neuroscience
What helpful behavior leads to
* Mutualism
* Reciprocity
* Altruism
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# Morality: Neuroscience
Process to Moral Development
1. Self interest ==> Collaborative Foraging ==> increased socialization ==> role division ==> trust ==>
2. "We before Me" ==> Pressure from group ==>
3. Morality of Right/Wrong
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# Morality: Neuroscience
Neurobiology
* Executive: Prefrontal Lobes
* Emotional: Limbic
* Survival: Stem and Peons
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# Morality: Neuroscience
Utilitarian Thinking Areas
* Insular Cortex: Disgust of moral wrongs
* *Dorsolateral* PFC: Strategy and no emotion
* Anterior Cingulate Cortex + Ventromedial PFC:Emotional decision making
* Work in opposition until one wins over
