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Philosophy Flashcards

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Questions that philosophy tries to answer.

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Why’s is there something as opposed to nothing in the universe?
What is the ultimate truth?
What is beauty?
What’s is the essence of good and bad? Right and wrong ?

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Molinas definition of philosophy

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Philosophy tries to answer the obvious.

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What questions and answers does philosophy deal with

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Philosophy searches for and analyzes explanations about the universe.

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What branch / areas does philosophy investigate?

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Ethics , logic , political philosophy

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Ethics branch

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Branch dealing with what is good and bad and right and wrong.

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Logic branch

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Branch dealing with structure or form of arguments

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Political Philosophy branch

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Branch deals with legitamacy of government.

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Subset of political philosophy

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What is justice? What are rights ?

What is the fairest way to distribute money?

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What do philosophers do ?

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Philosophers construct, analyze and argue.

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What are the two types of ethical theories ?

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Ethics of Conduct

Ethics of Character

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Ethics of conduct

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These types of theories tell what action or behaviors we should do

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Ethics of character

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These types of theories tell us what type of people we should be.

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Consequentialist

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The affect or the ends or results determine the rightness or wrongness of an action

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Non-consequentialist AKA Deontologist

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Something internal to an action “the motivation” determine the rightness or wrongness of that action.

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What do consequentialist care about?

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The end result

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What do consequentialist care about?

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The motivation

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What is interchangeable with non consequentialist

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Deontologist

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What three rules must meet for Deontologist?

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  1. Truth and honesty
  2. Permission
  3. Good hearted motivation
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Ethics of conduct type theories break down to what two subcategories

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Consequentialist

Non consequentialist

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What type of ethical theory does non consequentialist and consequentialist go under ?

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Ethics of conduct

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Virtue ethics

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Tell us what type of people we should be.

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Consequentialist theories include

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Egoism

Utilitarianism

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Deontologist theories include

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Divine command Theory

Kant’s theory

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Divine command theory falls under what ?

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Deontologist

Absolutist

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Divine command theory basic foundation

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Obey Gods words, laws, and commands

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Divine Command Theory

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Something is right if God or the Bible says so, something is wrong if God or the Bible says so.

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Absolutist

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ethical law should apply regardless of where you live , when you live or who you are.

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Absolutist goes with what theory

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The Divine Command

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The divine command is a combination of what

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Absolutist and Deontologist

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Relativist

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The good is what is accepted by a given community at a given time.

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What ever is accepted at the time is what’s best represents what ?

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Relativist

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Ethics

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Ethics is a system of moral principals.

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❗️What three areas do philosophers tend to divide ethical theories

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Meta ethics
Normative ethics
Applied ethics

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Deals with the nature of moral judgement, it looks at the origins and meaning of ethical principals.

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MetaEthics

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❗️Normative ethics

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Is concerned with the content of moral judgement and the criteria for what is right or wrong

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❗️Is concerned with the content of moral judgement and the criteria for what is right or wrong

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Normative ethics

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❗️Applied Ethics

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Looks at controversial topics like war, animal and capital punishment

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❗️Looks at controversial topics like war, animal and capital punishment

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Applied ethics

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❗️ How many answers can ethics give ?

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Ethics can give several answers

-there may be several answers or just some least worst answers

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Virtue ethics is highly concerned with?

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Moral character of human. Rings, The morality of particular courses of action. But it also about the goodness of individuals and what it means to live a good life

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Ethical realist

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Beileve that human beings discover ethical truths that already have an independent existence

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Ethical non-realist

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Think that human being invent ethical truths

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Consequentialism

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Teaches that people should do whatever produces the greatest amount of good consequences

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❗️Moral Absolutism

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Some people think there are such universal rules that apple to everyone.

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Ethics

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Ethics is a system of moral principals.

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❗️What three areas do philosophers tend to divide ethical theories

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Meta ethics
Normative ethics
Applied ethics

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❗️Meta ethics

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Deals with the nature of moral judgement, it looks at the origins and meaning of ethical principals.

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Deals with the nature of moral judgement, it looks at the origins and meaning of ethical principals.

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MetaEthics

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❗️Normative ethics

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Is concerned with the content of moral judgement and the criteria for what is right or wrong

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❗️Is concerned with the content of moral judgement and the criteria for what is right or wrong

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Normative ethics

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❗️Applied Ethics

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Looks at controversial topics like war, animal and capital punishment

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❗️Looks at controversial topics like war, animal and capital punishment

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Applied ethics

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❗️ How many answers can ethics give ?

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Ethics can give several answers

-there may be several answers or just some least worst answers

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Virtue ethics is highly concerned with?

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Moral character of human. Rings, The morality of particular courses of action. But it also about the goodness of individuals and what it means to live a good life

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Ethical realist

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Beileve that human beings discover ethical truths that already have an independent existence

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Ethical non-realist

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Think that human being invent ethical truths

57
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Consequentialism

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Teaches that people should do whatever produces the greatest amount of good consequences

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❗️Moral Absolutism

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Some people think there are such universal rules that apple to everyone.

Philosophy (3 decks)

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