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| What are the 2 principles when discussing ethics? |
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Definition
1. Q's of meaning come before Q's of truth.
2. The Principle of Charity. |
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| Explain "The Principle of Charity" |
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Definition
| -each person derserves to have their veiws heard and interpruted. |
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| What are the 4 steps of "The Principle of Charity?" |
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Definition
1. Hear what the person has to say.
2. Take what they said and make it as strong as possible.
3. Take the material and then evaluate it.
4. Draw your conclusion. |
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What are Independent Moral Facts?
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Definition
| Moral facts are not dependent on beliefs, opinions, and choices. |
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| What are Dependent Moral Facts? |
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Definition
| Moral facts depend on beliefs, opinions, and choices. |
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What is assumed from the Devine Command?
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Definition
1. That God is omnipotent (unlimited authority), omniscient (infinite understanding), omnibenevolent (all meaning), omnipresent (present everywhere).
2. Whatever God approves, permits, and commands is right.
3. Whatever God commands is manditory and nessesary. |
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What is the Benefit-Flexible Theory?
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Definition
| God can direct commands to one individual for one action or up to all individuals for a type of action. |
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| What are the immediate concerns with the Benefit-Flexible Theory? |
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Definition
| How do we know what is approved? what is commanded? and what is right? |
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What is Divine Revelation to each person?
What are the problems with this? |
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Definition
God directly tells each of us what to do.
Problems: people claim that God doesn't talk to them. |
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What is Divine Revelation to chosen individuals?
What are the problems with this? |
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Definition
God directly tell chosen individuals what to do, and then they relay the info to everyone else.
Problems: how do we trust what this person tells us is the truth. |
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What are the problems with religious texts?
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Definition
1. Does god command that we do the right thing because its right or does God's cammands make the right thing right?
2. Impossibly idealistic Demands: Is it possible to live your neighbor in the correct way all the time?
3. Things that seem wrong to us, is approved in the texts. Ex: slavery, women as property.
4. Things that seem right but are disapproved in the texts. Ex: women as equals to men
5. The problem of interpretation. Ex: people think that angels have wings.
6. Which text is the right text and what happens if you chose the wrong text. |
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| What is Ethical Reletivism? |
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Definition
| What is morally right and wrong varys from person to person. |
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| All people in a culture have the same rights and wrongs. |
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What is Extreme or Individual Relativism?
What are the Advantages and Problems? |
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Definition
Each person has their own moral code.
Advantages: Individual Freedom, tolerance- what is right for me may not be right for others. "the whatever way of thinking"
Problems: Evil people think that evil things are good and morally okay. |
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