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19 Cards in this Set
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Three types of value in decision making:
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Intrinsic good, instrumental good, and a combination of both.
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Technical word for the problem of evil:
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Theodicy
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Moral character came to refer to:
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Moral virtue.
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Definition of consequentialism:
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The thought where any kind of act can be morally right if it has good enough consequences or avoids bad enough consequences.
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Three types of consequentialism:
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Maximizing-Act, Satisfying-Act, and Rule-Consequentialism.
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Two main components of consensus decision making:
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Objective values or subjective values.
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Twin pillars of Democratic government:
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Majority rules and minority rights protection.
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Another name/phrase for moral objectivism:
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Natural law.
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Moderate moral objectivism is based on the theory of:
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"Prima facie principles".
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_____ is a decision making process that works creatively to include all persons making the decision.
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Consensus.
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Utilitarianism is sometimes referred to as:
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"The greatest happiness principle".
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Who developed Utilitarianism for determining the happiness of any moral decision?
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Jeremy Bentham.
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Four types of ethical egoism:
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Psychological, personal, individual, and universal.
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_____ is the notion that it is a moral imperative to try and meet the needs of others.
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Altruism.
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_____ is based on the premise that pleasure is the only motivation behind our decision making.
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Hedonism.
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Three types of modern hedonism:
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Psychological, evaluative, and rationalizing.
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Two types of moral relativism:
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Descriptive moral relativism and Meta-ethical moral relativism.
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What is ethics?
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The philosophical process of determining reasoning and emotion for making a decision.
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Who determines right and wrong?
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In the end society/culture influences decision making, not only from the individual point of view, but also in regards as to what is accepted as morally right.
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