PHI 2174 Final: Ethics Exam Review 2174.docx
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3 parts: 1- essay on virtue ethics, 2- essay on metaethics. Show both knowledge and the ability to analyze: 3- definitions, central arguments short answer. No evaluation or analysis straight memory testing. Metaethics is a brand of ethics that deals with the most basic assumptions and foundation of moral thought. What do we mean by right and wrong. They express beliefs that can either be true or false. Moral realism there are objective moral facts: ethical naturalism: Moral facts are knowable through and reducible to non-moral facts about the universe. Moral facts can be determined through empirical observation: advantage: establishes a naturalistic basis for objective morality, disadvantage: must overcome the is/ought problem and the open question argument. ** the conclusion does not follow from our 1 premise in order to make that conclusion follow from our first premise we have to insert a second premise. We must have an evaluative premise in order to have an evaluative conclusion.
