PHILOS 1 Study Guide - Spring 2019, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Trust Law, Time, The Dickies
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Ethics: concerned with the ? of how i ought to live. May be all sorts of elements of a good life that are not moral. Aristotelianism: life of virtuous action and engagement, with wisdom conventrestage. Stoicism: life lived in light of reason (not by passions) Normative ethics: particular theories of right and wrong such as utilitarianism or virtue ethics. Meta-ethics: nature of morality itself, rather than the ? of what is moral. Applied ethics: applications of normative ethical theory to real-world problems, euthanasia, warfare. Moral relativism: domains of judgement such as taste and humor. Different views that is moral or not depending on the person. Moral subjectivism: one way of thinking about moral relativism. Argued that whatever natural property that we tried to identify w/ moral property. Ex: one could describe an action in as much detail as one wanted but it would nonetheless be intelligible to ask whether that action was right or wrong.
