[PHIL202] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (66 pages long!)

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Ethics: the philosophical investigation of the nature of rightness and/or goodness [dependent on consequences]. Applied ethics: the philosophical investigation of the moral status of various kinds of actions. Meta-ethics: the philosophical investigation of the meaning of ethical claims and the metaphysics of moral value. Euthanasia: for the good for the person whom is being killed. What should we believe by asking if there are good arguments for a certain claim. An argument is made up of two parts: premises: reasons for thinking the conclusion is true, a conclusion: the claim which the premises are supposed to show must be or is likely to be true. A set of claims that support a conclusion. An action is morally right if and only if it is morally permissible. Example: is it accepted from a moral point of view. An action is morally wrong if and only if it is not morally right. Example if is forbidden from a moral point of view.

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