Basics Flashcards
Define virtue ethics
If you are good, your actions will be good
Define ethics
A discipline that structures, defends or rejects concepts of right or wrong behavior
Define duty ethics
There are clear actions you must fulfill, whether you want to or not
Define consequential ethics
What are the results of an act? Cost-benefit analysis
Define theology
Systematic thoughts about God. Have to be communal
What is rationalism?
The argument that all things can be explained through reason, and anything that can’t be explained is irrelevant
What is empiricism?
The idea that your perceptions and experience will show you what is right. But perceptions can be flawed
Freud and ocd in relation to religion?
Repeated actions (rituals) that
If they are omitted cause discomfort (compulsion/duty)
And are unique (religion is shared)
Rationalism according to Marx
Actual suffering protests suffering
Religion is a human expression
Why is religion distracting according to Marx?
It wastes energy that could be used in other ways.
If you take religion away, people will see the full horror of their lives and want to change them
People can’t see the results of their labor
Religion coerces labor (like cathedral building)
“Family resemblance” in religion
There is no one thing all religions have, but if you put them close to each other you will see similarities
