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Ethical egoism
What type of ethic is ethical egoism,
What is the fundamental of ethica...,
Ethical egoism holds that
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Naturalism and Bradley introduction
What is meta ethics,
What is the idea of naturalism,
Naturalists claim good can be
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Bradley - Ethical sentences express propositions
What do ethical sentences express,
How are ethical sentences cognitive,
How do ethical sentences relate t...
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Bradley - objective features of the world make propositions true or false
What should one ought to do,
How do we understand how to behave,
Morality exists
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Bradley - meta-ethical statements can be seen in scientific terms
How can we know our societal role,
How can we deduce that some acts ...,
What does evolutionary ethics sug...
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Part 1 - empirical study of our community
What does bradley conclude is the...,
How is self realisation achieved,
What does adopting the values of ...
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Part 2 - ethical language
What does bradley say ethical lan...,
How can treating students with re...
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Challenges to naturalism
What does hume suggest if ethical...,
What does hume state in a treatis...,
The fundamental of the is and oug...
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Intuitionism
When did intuitionism become popular,
What do all intuitionists fundame...,
What are these facts that intuiti...
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Intuitionism - what is good?
What does moore firstly argue abo...,
The two intrinsic goods moore hig...
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Intuitionism - universal and objective
Universal,
Objective,
What does moore suggest then abou...
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Intuitionism - intuition is not the same as common sense
Why does moore dispute that intui...
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Intuitionism - is our moral intuition infallible?
What happens with maturity,
What does the moral agent require,
What does ha pritchard claim
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Intuitionism - the contribution of H.A. Pritchard to intuitionism
What did pritchard write in 1912,
Where did pritchard agree with hume,
What does pritchard claim about t...
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Intuitionism - challenges
What are jl mackie s two ways in ...,
The issue of intuitionism having ...,
What else could our apparent intu...
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Emotivism intro
Where does emotivism originate
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Emotivism - theory that believes objective moral laws do not exist
How aren t moral statements meani...,
What categories do moral statemen...
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Emotivism - moral terms express personal emotional attitudes and not propositions
What does emotivism claim an ethi...,
What does stealing is wrong express,
What would happen if i felt diffe...
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Emotivism - ethical terms are just expressions of personal approval or disapproval
What would giving reasons to supp...,
What happens when we strip away a...,
Example of the boo hurrah theory ...
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Emotivism - explains why people disagree about morality
The difference between conflictin...,
What does stevenson ultimately co...,
What does stevenson believe moral...
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Emotivism - ethical statements are neither verifiable nor analytic
How does aj ayer consider stateme...,
What does ayer consider about the...
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Emotivism - its expressions
What does ayer consider ethical j...,
What do such statements express,
If i make the statement homosexua...
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Emotivism - challenges
No basic moral principles can be ...,
Ethical debate becomes pointless,
There is no universal agreement t...
3
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Natural Law - morality based on reason
What does aquinas argue god created,
Who can know the moral laws,
Who was aquinas influenced by
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Natural Law - the purpose of natural law
What did aristotle believe our ul...,
How could one reach perfection ac...,
What are the 2 purposes trying to...
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Natural Law - Aquinas' four levels of law
What do the 4 levels of law do,
Eternal law,
Divine law
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Natural Law - derived from rational thought
What gift did god give us,
How is natural law derived throug...
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Natural Law - based on a belief in a divine creator
What is the beatific vision
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Natural Law - as deontological and teleological
3points for deontological,
2 points for teleological
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Natural Law - as the basis of morality
What is the basic moral law
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Natural Law - the use and importance of reason
How does natural law ethics invol...,
What does the use of reason lead ...,
What does aquinas say about a hum...
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Natural Law - 5 primary precepts
How did aquinas find that humanit...,
How did aquinas reason out humani...,
If humanity was created by god wh...
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Natural Law - secondary precepts
What reasoned idea do the seconda...,
What are the secondary precepts a...,
It is of universal
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Natural Law - the importance of keeping the precepts in order to establish a right relationship with god
What is the wrong application of ...,
What can we do by applying right ...
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Natural Law - The three revealed virtues
How did aquinas developed his two...,
Are virtues attainable,
What did aquinas believed cultiva...
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Natural Law - the four cardinal virtues
What does perfecting these virtue...,
3 points about prudence,
3 points about temperance
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Natural Law - Internal and external acts
What is vital in moral decision m...,
What is an internal act,
What is an external act
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Natural Law - different types of goods
What is a real good,
What is an apparent good,
What will apparent goods do to a ...
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Natural Law - application to abortion
What does aquinas advocate the us...,
Why is abortion fundamentally wro...,
What do virtues represent
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Natural Law - application to voluntary euthanasia
What is voluntary euthanasia,
What does voluntary euthanasia re...,
What does suicide act 1961 say
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Utilitarianism - background to Bentham's Act Utilitarianism
Who is accepted as originator of ...,
What was bentham influenced by in...,
How can utilitarianism be conside...
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Utilitarianism - Bentham's theory of utility
What does utilitarianism work out,
What is the most useful end seen as,
Therefore what are seen as the be...
10
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Utilitarianism - the hedonic calculus
What was the hedonic calculus cre...,
What needs to be taken into accou...,
Intensity
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Utilitarianism - additional info to Bentham's views
It s not all about your own happi...,
Create the greatest happiness eve...,
Negative act utilitarianism
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Utilitarianism - background to Mill's utilitarianism
The two major flaws mill identifi...,
The issue of act utilitarianism j...,
An example of flaw 1
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Utilitarianism - Mill's changes to Act Utilitarianism
What did mill change about the me...,
What did mill think about just us...,
Which pleasures did mill warn aga...
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Utilitarianism - Mill's harm principle
Where did mill agree with bentham,
What is mill s one exception to a...,
Exceptions to the freedom of an i...
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Utilitarianism - Mill's rule utilitarianism
What did mill realise could help ...,
What did mill believe society cou...,
What did mill argue would improve...
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Utilitarianism - Rule utilitarianism as deontological and teleological
Why is rule utilitarianism seen a...,
Why is rule utilitarianism seen a...,
How is weak rule utilitarianism a...
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Utilitarianism - application to animal experimentation
What would an act utilitarian not...,
What would an act utilitarian the...,
What would a rule utilitarian ini...
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Utilitarianism - application to the use of nuclear weapons as a deterrent
Example of president truman apply...,
How does rule utilitarianism find...
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