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104 Cards in this Set
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Kant said that morality-
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dealt with reason
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True or False :To Nietzhe noble meant to see oneself as center of all value
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True
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True or False:Utilitarianism-you should not cheat on this test b/c you have a duty to be honest.
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False
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Mill agues that Epicureanism
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is a doctrine not worthy of the swine.
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True or False: Utilitarianism is classified as deontological ethical theory b/c it maintains that what makes an action right are its consequences.-
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false
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True or False:Since rulers are not in the inferior position of slaves, they need not subscribe to slave values and are beyond good and evil
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True
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Nietzhe believed that striving for power was right
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Nietzhe believed that striving for power was right
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True or False: Since rulers are not in the inferior position of slaves, they need not subscribe to slave values and are beyond good and evil
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true
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True or False: Using the rule of utilitarianism means making ethical decisions on a case by case basis.
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False
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One prob. W/ Utilitarianism means making according to Kant and deontologists
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it is not possible to deny minority rights.
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True or False: Natural rights can be taken away easily
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false
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True or False: Psychological egoism is a single motive theory
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true
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Kants categorical imperative states
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if you cannot universalize the maxim of your actions, you should not do it.
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Nietzhean- virtures
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pride and selfishness
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Moral relativism is frequently derived from culturally relativism
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culturally relativism
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Mills answers the question “how can I know what is right"
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the principle of utility can tell us what is right
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True or False: Moral relativism precludes moral progress and criticism.
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True
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If you were told that 80% or adult Americans practice contraception, this would involve
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descriptive ethics.
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True or False: justice” means that equals should not be treated equally
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False
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True or False: Nietzche said that Christianity was not a slave morality
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False
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One of the reasons ethical relativism is generally rejected as a theory is
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it denies the concept of moral progress.
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Nietzhe: Nationalism or No Nationalism
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no nationalism
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True or False: Philosophy is primarily an eastern view of viewing reality
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False
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The denial of the existence of, objective transcultural moral &/ or moral standards of rationality
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moral relativism
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True or False: “Respect for persons” means that individuals should be treated as autonomous agents
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true
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The etymology of ethics
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what is customary
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True or False: Descriptive ethics tells how one ought to behave
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false
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If you are asked to consider the consequences of an action primarily it terms of how it will affect your, quality of life you are being asked to the principle of
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ethical egoism
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Bentham & mill believed in
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Utilitarianism
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One way not to state the categorical imperative
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is always treat persons as ends in themselves
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“act only according to that maxim [rule] by which can at the same time will that it should become a universal law
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Kants explaination to the categorical imperative
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Most Greek philosophers including Aristotle advocate
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virtue ethics
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Hedonists want to promote
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pleasure & privation of pain
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The ethymology of deontology is
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the study of binding duties.
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True or False: Kant wanted to find the grounds for a universal objectively grounded ethics
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True
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True or False: Nietzche approved of Utilitarianism
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True
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According to kant the only good w/o qualifications is
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Goodwill
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REN means
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humanness
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Scrotes argues that the charge of atheism is self-contradictory
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there can be no divine activities w/o gods and Melets has acknowledged that Socrates does believe in divine activities.
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Teleologist like Artistotle thinks that
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all things have a purpose and that constitutes them good
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Etyhmology of philosophy is
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the love of wisdom
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By telling the story of the oracle of Delphi Socrates is claiming that
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he created enemies in his attempt to prove that del was wrong and that’s why he has been dragged into court.
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True or False: Socrates thought a wise man should fear death
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false
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Socrates trial is in
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Plato's apology
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When comparing the allegory of the cave to the divided line,
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the cave is to the realm outside of the cave as the visible realm is the intelligible realm.
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True or False: According to Socrates, an experience of what is good (say telling the truth) is a def. of the good b/c it states what the essential characteristics of being good are
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false
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A Sustain reflection on how one should live is
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Ethics
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Aristotle said that philosophy begins in wonder meaning
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philosophy aris out of the ability of humans to be reflective and philosophy arises out of a natural human curiosity.
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By form Plato means
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essence and idea
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To claim that doing good is intrinsically valuable means
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you should do what is good because it is good and not in order to gain something.
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True or False: according to Confucianism you can develop a virtuous character without education
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false
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True or False: Process ontologists unlike substance ontologies emphasize “thingness” ass the most fundamental reality.
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false
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True or False: according to Confucianism we can all lead the good life even if there is social disorder, the family structure is in disarray and the govt’ is corrupt.
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True
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True or False: Good Government according the Confucian view is not possible unless the moral character of individuals is nurtured and developed
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True
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True or False: the Confucian ethic would be much improved if Confucius like jesus had developed the idea of the golden rule
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False
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According to Kessler,philosophy consists of
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a set of believes and dogmas usually based on some kind of intuition of divine revelations about which can be certain
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True or False: William James definition of philosophy stubborn attempt to think clearly
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True
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Ethical questions concerning philosophy
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what is the morally right way to live? How can I know what is morally right, how can I decide morally difficult cases
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Xiao
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familial love
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The mean between undue humility and empty vanity is
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Proper Pride
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De
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The excellence of Power
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process-ontologies, unlike substance ontologies emphasize thingness as the most fundamental reality
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False
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Sartre
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free
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True or False: reversion is the action of the Dao Means the nature follows a cyclical pattern.
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True
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True or False: Daoism opposites are harmonized by nature,
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True
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Dao De jing
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Opposites are complementary
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Thomas S Kuan
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Paradigm shift
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True or False: Daoism go w/ the flow philosophy
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True
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True or False: Derek Partit, who wrote the selections “divided minds and the nature of persons believes that persons are separately existing things.
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False
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Doors & windows are cut out to make a room but it is on its own is non-being that the utility of the room depends.-
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The utility of the world depends on the Dao just as the utility of a room depends on the empty spaces which allocates entrances, exits and views
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True or False: one of the “big problems” in philosophy is that of freedom and determinism
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True
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True or False: Materialism claims that ideas are most real
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False
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The existentialists believe that in the late 20th century
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are fortune to have cultural roots and security.
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Why does it follow according to sarte, that including what I will do, I choose for all
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Why does it follow according to sarte, that including what I will do, I choose for all
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True or False: aburdity, according to camus, lies in the opposition between the human need for meaning and the unconcerned and meaningless universe
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True
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True or False:satre says that people often live in “Bad faith” by refusing to accept responsibility
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True
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True or False: Daniel Dennett Explores wherere the self is in the brain or body.
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True
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Existence precedes essence means
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1st humans exist, then they define themselves by the choices they make
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According to cammus- fundamental philosophical question
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the problem of suicide
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despair is the feeling we get to according to sarte, when we realize that god is going ot send us to hell.
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False
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michel Foucault- believes that we are restrained in many ways by the recogniezed underlying rules and assumptions of our culture.
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True
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True or False: Thomas Kuhn believes that science is goal oriented
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False
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One way of out of existential dilemma is to
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Revolt
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True or False: descartres believed in mind and matter he was a monist
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False
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Dao means
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Road or Way
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Paradigm
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set of working assumptions accepted by most people in intellectual community of a particular area.
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A Major proposition in darwins work is
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evolutions moves from the primitive beginnings but towards no goal
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True or False: existentialism believe that there is a set of human natures & that man is largely determined
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False
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Deontology
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belief that ideas are the only reality or the most important part of reality
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Determinism
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events caused by set of antecedent events
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Dao means
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Nameless
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True or False: Sarte said that man is nothing else but what he makes himself and is responsible for what he is.
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True
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Deontology
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A theory (such as Kants) that stresses the importance of the motive of doing one's duty as a determining factor in assussing the moral value of actions.
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Metaphysics
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idk
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Cosmology
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origins
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ontology
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what is really, real
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Epistemology
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Knowledge, knowing.
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anxiology
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values
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Esthetics
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what is ugly or beautiful
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ethics
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right vs wrong behavior
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Logic
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correct vs incorrect reasoning.
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Logic number one
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Old, syllogistic, Aristotle
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Logic number two
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New, Symbolic, russell
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Utilitarianism
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A moral theory holding that the value of an action resides in its utility or use for the production of pleasure or happiness.
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