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2 types of virtue identified by Aristotle
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Intellectual and moral
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2 types of good identified by Aristotle
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Intrinsic and instrumental
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Final good identified by Aristotle
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Happiness
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3 considerations for categorical imperative
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Maxim
-can it be universal law -would you will it to be universal law |
Theorists of consequential ethics
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Mill, Bentham, Gyekye, Maimonides
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Theorists of agent focus ethics
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Hume, Socrates, Laozi (or other Daoists)
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Theorists focusing on principle or non-person to determine 'ethical'
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Aquinas, St. Catherine of Siena
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Term for Kant's type of ethics
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Deontological
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2 branches of utilitarian ethics
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Individual/community
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2 branches off community ethics
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Act/rule
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What would be true about Natural Law?
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-It was proposed by a medieval philosopher and is used today by some philosophers
-it suggest that determination of "rightness" is a process of discovery (discovering what the Divine has already infused within) -it implies that there are universally- moral laws within the universe |
What theorist would insist that context is essential to the determination of "ethical"?
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Aristotle
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Catherine's "you must know yourself and understand yourself well to be able to set your life in order" reflects what other philosopher?
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Socrates
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What would be consistent with Hume's view in regards to determining "ethical"?
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-it is an a posteriori determination
-the determination is inevitably and appropriately subjective |
What are the three major foci in determining "ethical"?
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Agent, Outcome, Transcendental
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