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FlashCards por Stacy Roberts, atualizado more than 1 year ago
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Criado por Stacy Roberts
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| Questão | Responda |
| What features of a situation might lead someone to conclude that it has a moral dimension? | -Someone has been deceived -Someone was treated unfairly -Someone was hurt -Questions of character come into view -Values conflict |
| Besides the content of a situation, what else might lead someone to consider it a moral situation? | A person comes to a moral standpoint (or point of view) one involving concern for doing the right thing. |
| What are some concepts that are common elements or moral discussions | -Duty -Obligation -Bad, wrong, immoral, wicked -Right, good, commendable -ought Right, as in having a right to do something -The greatest amount of good consequences for everyone affected |
| What sorts of interests in a situation are associated with morality? | -Compassion -Doing one's duty -Seriousness -Regard for what we are making ourselves if we repeatedly act in certain ways |
| What is ethics fundamentally concerned with? | Ethics concerns what people ought to do. It engages reflection, argument, and discussion of what is morally right or wrong. |
| What tempts people to reflects philosophically on moral questions? | -Unusual circumstances about which they have no settled ideas of right and wrong. -Moral disagreements about actions that have already taken place |
| In terms of what three elements can moral arguments be analyzed? | -Evidence -A Claim -Warrant |
| Where do moral theories enter into moral arguments? | As justifications for the warrants stated or implied in moral arguments |
| What are the six kinds of moral reasons that we will be concerned with? | -Results or consequences -Equity, or fairness -Obligation or duty -Personal connections or relationships -Solidarity or community -Self formation or character |
| What are some questions asked when pertaining to results or consequences? | What are the consequences? Which are the good consequences and which are the bad? For whom are those consequences good or bad? |
| What are some questions asked in pertaining to equity or fairness? | Would I want someone to do to me what I'm doing to them and vice versa? Does the demand for moral equity and reciprocity - fairness - overlook morally important differences? Can't we ever put ourselves first without worrying about someone else? |
| What are some questions asked in pertaining to obligation or duty? | What are my duties? What do I do when duties conflict? Are my duties always more important that other factors, say, my preferences, or are other factors sometimes more important than duty? |
| What are some questions asked in partaining to connections or relationships? | What and how much do I owe those with whom I have important primary relationships? Are there times when the consequences of an action for a stranger may outweigh in importance the consequences of the action for a friend or family member? What will, in fact, preserve and nurture my primary relationships and what will poison them? |
| What questions might be asked pertaining to solidarity or community? | What are the community's standards, and who is authorized to decide? Does this or that activity that I might engage in really subvert or uphold those standards? Can a community's demands ever be too great? How do you balance the demands of different communities when you belong to more than one? |
| What are some questions that might be asked when pertaining to self formation or character? | What is a good life? What has my life amounted to up to this point? What am I making of myself if I continue to live and act the way I am? How can I be someone that I won't mind seeing in the mirror every morning? |
| What are some of the main subdivisions within ethics? | Applied Ethics Normative Ethics Other Regarding Ethics Self Regarding Ethics Meta Ethics |
| What are some other ethical subdivisions? | Ethical absolutism Ethical relativism |
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