debate phlosiphers

Question 1

moral theoirs :

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tell you what you should do, like what is right

Question 2

Consequentialist thoery

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your Action is right if leads to best possible consequences

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Deontological Theories

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your Action is right even if leads to a not so great consequence

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John Mill and Jeremy Bentham

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created Utilitarianism, The Harms Principle, Tyranny of the Majority, Marketplace of Ideas

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Tyranny of the Majority

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Majority does whatever it wants

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tHe harms principal

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Governments should not harm its citizens

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Utilitarianism

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an action is right if it promotes happiness, and that the greatest amoutn of happiness should be the guiding principle of wither the action is right.

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Paternalism

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Government acts like your parents. Ex: seatbelt laws, public edu., curfew, etc

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Marketplace of Ideas

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, you are a freer person because you decide what you should believe.
If we are censored then we cannot be independent thinkers.

Question 10

Immanuel Kant

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made kantism and Categorical Imperative

Question 11

Categorical Imperative

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We have an unconditional moral obligation to only do what we wish others would do in all circumstances and is not dependent on a person’s opinion or purpose. this is alos known as kantism

Question 12

Contractarianism

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A social contract or implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits,

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Thomas Hobbes

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Contractarianism - believe that social contract is needed, or there will be chos

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John Locke

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Contractarianism - believes Only 3 rights should be protected by the government…Life, Liberty, & Property (privacy).

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jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Contractarianism - people are good, but socity corrupts so we need social conteact

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John Rawls

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Deals with how to structure society to be the most just. made the Veil of Ignorance, Maxi-Min Principle

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Veil of Ignorance

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a device so that when you are behind it you forget who you are and what characteristics you have, like race, wealth, religion

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Maxi-Min Principle

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Maximize welfare of citizens by making sure the minimum are treated best

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Merit Based

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Everyone gets what they deserve or have earned

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Need Based

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We strive for an equal outcome in which all society or group members get what they need.

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Natural rights

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everyone has these just because they are alive. Life, Liberty & Property

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Societal Rights

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rights you possess because you belong to a society. i.e. Social Contract

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Negative rights

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rights not to have people interfere with you.

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Positive Rights

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ights that you are given. (Right to healthcare, education, etc.)

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Aristotle

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had virtue theory with 14 virtues

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Virtue Theory

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heory that emphasizes an individual’s character rather than following a set of rules

Question 27

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Nihilism-The rejection of all religious and moral principles, often in the belief that life is meaningless because there is no greater context to it.

Question 28

John Paul Sartre

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Existentialism - The theory or that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible determining their own development through acts of the will.

Question 29

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

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1) physiologicla needs 2) saftry needs 3) love and belonging 4)esteem 5) self acuzation