[PHIL 1550] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (42 pages long)
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January 26, 2016 understand it and govern their behaviour. How do we decide what is good and bad. Often understood as a code of conduct that applies to al those who can. The differentiation and categorization of intentions, actions, and decisions into good and bad. We tend to judge actions and intentions more harshly. What is good is considered to be the (cid:494)right thing to do(cid:495) What is bad is considered to be the (cid:494)wrong thing to do(cid:495) Power might does not equal right. Law many countries still punish homosexuality by death. Morality normative: emotions: hume and smith emotions (empathy and sympathy) are the, rationalist approaches: kant and mill utilitarianism (based on the. According to philosophical theory there are three main competing accounts for moral reasoning or decision making: virtue ethics outcome) and deontology (based on the actions themselves) Every day for instance, people are faced with the dilemma of whether or not.