Introduction to Ethics 2030 Study Guide PDF
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This study guide for the Introduction to Ethics 2030 final exam covers various ethical theories, including Act utilitarianism, Absolute Deontology, and Virtue Ethics. It explores different ethical perspectives and arguments, like the Doctrine of Double Effect, and focuses on the role of different theoretical arguments in shaping ethical understanding, including the distinction between Moral Patients and Moral Agents.
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Study Guide for Final Introduction to Ethics 2030 Normative Ethics Be able to explain and compare and contrast the following theories: - Act Utilitarianism - Absolute Deontology - Moderate Deontology - Kant and the two formulations of the Categorical Imperative - Moral Monism -...
Study Guide for Final Introduction to Ethics 2030 Normative Ethics Be able to explain and compare and contrast the following theories: - Act Utilitarianism - Absolute Deontology - Moderate Deontology - Kant and the two formulations of the Categorical Imperative - Moral Monism - Ross' Moral Pluralism - Virtue Ethics - Weighted Beneficence - Egalitarianism - Welfarism - Error Theory - Emotivism - Social Contract Theory - Divine Command Theory - *Post-hoc* Rationalization Be able to explain the following arguments/positions: Normative Theories, Arguments, Distinctions and Principles - The Doctrine of Double Effect - At least one Utilitarian Response to the charge that it is too demanding - The Three Major Theories of Welfare and how they differ from each other - William's Integrity Objection to Consequentialism - Positive v. Negative Duties - How and why Situationism Causes Problems for Virtue Ethics - Kant's rejection of the Golden Rule - *Prima Facie* and Proper Duties - *Eudemonia* - The Open Question Argument and why it is a problem for Analytic Naturalism - How Synthetic Naturalists respond to the Open Question Argument - Analytic/Synthetic Distinction - The Non-Identity Problem and how it creates conceptual problems for those who think we have a moral obligation to future persons - Marginal Cases - How the case of Fred shows eating factory farmed meat is morally wrong - The Causal Impotence objection to meat eating and at least one of the ways Norcross responds - Distinction between Moral Patients and Moral Agents