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