PHIL 1300 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Second-Wave Feminism, Empiricism, Golden Rule
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In the moral sense said of persons, motives, actions. Giving to charity (action) is a good thing to do. In the moral sense said of actions or would be actions. Right (noun) - a valid claim that we have against others. Political rights, legal rights, moral rights, human rights, animal rights, rights of elderly, children right, rights of nations. Duty (noun) - an obligation, something we are morally required to do; what we ought to do. Correspondence thesis: person a has a duty to x (represents action) in relation to person b just incase b has a right that a should do x in relation to b. Correlatively thesis: if a has a right of kind r, then a has a duty to allow others to excercise their right of kind r. Moral judgment - a judgment employing one of the key moral terms (good, bad, right, wrong, duty, forbidden, ought). Motive - the reason why one person does something.