Philosophy Exam 1

For my PHL 118 exam (first exam)

33 cards   |   Total Attempts: 188
  

Cards In This Set

Front Back
Feelings are often the starting point of moral reflection, blank and blank.
Immediate reactions and attachments to beliefs
Dogmatist
Being so unshakeably committed to a belief that no reasonable kind of evidence would convince one otherwise
These tend to believe that moral answers are obvious
Dogmatist
Ethis is open-minded and welcomes blank.
Complexity
Rationalizer
Thinks that moral opinions require justification
Rationalizers engage in...
Offhand self justification
Rationalizers are more concerned with what then what
Protecting oneself rather than finding the truth
We should think of ethical disclosure as a cooperative activity rather than a blank. a dialogue rather than a blank.
Competition, debate
The three major types of ethical thinking
1) Ethics of Happiness
2) Ethics of the Person
3) Ethics of Virtue
The Work of Ethical Thinking
1) Grouding ethical arguments
2) Focusing Key Questions
3) Mapping Ethical Debates
4) Prompting Change
Grouding ethical debates
Providing a deeper justification.
Focusing key questions
Clarifying what principles and values are at stake in a complicated moral issue and showing how they're related
Mapping Ethical debates
Revealing why different approaches to a moral question come in conflict
Prompting Change
Identifying in consistencies in the way we think
pointing out logical implications of our views
transforming the concepts involved in moral judgement
The Ethics of Happiness
Utilitarianism
Weighing consequences
equal consideration