Introduction The Nature Of Ethics And Moral Reasoning

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Where does the word philosophy came from

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Philo (love) sophia (wisdom)

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What does philosophia equate to

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Love of wisdom

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Philosophy as love pursuit or study of knowledge wisdom or truth especially as to the nature of things

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Pre socratics plato aristotle

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Philosophy as the handmaid of theology who’s purpose is to elucidate revealed truths and combat heresy

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Medieval philosophy

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Philoosphy as meaning which the world has for you or as the meaning one has created or invented in life

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S E frost Jr and Jean paul sarte

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What are the three concepts of philosophy

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Value system
Reflective activities
Foundationalism

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Reconstructed belief

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Value system

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Same term to refer to the activities directed to these presuppositions

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Reflective actvities

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Intellectual presuppositions on which is rooted our epistemological metaphyscial and ethical judgments beliefs and actions

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Foundationalism

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Branch of philosophy which is also called moral philosophy

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Ethics

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This is where we ask and attempt to answer foundational questions about key areas or matters of human life and experience

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Ethics

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Philosophers asks questions not about how to interoret a certain novel or painting but basic foundational questions such as what kind of things do or should count as art

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Aesthetic

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Philosophers ask about structure or composition of some chemical or biological but about such matters as whether sceintific knowedge gives us reality as it is

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Philosophy of science

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Seek to understand the nature of law itself the source of its authority the nature of legal interpretation and the basis of legal responsibility

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Law

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This asks questions about good life

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Ethics

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These are customs including customary behavior of a particular group of people of different cultures

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Mores

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Morality comes from the word

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Mores

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View that ethical values and beliefs are relative to the various individuals or societies that hold them there is no objective right or wrong

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Ethical relativism

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Outlook and attitudes of individual person

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Individual ethical relativism

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Ethical values vary from society to so iety and that basis for moral judgments lies in the these social or cultural views

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Cultural ethical relativism

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2 forms of ethical relativism

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Individual and cultural ethical relativism

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Principle of regarding and valuing practices of a culture from a point of view of that culture and to avoid making hasty judgments

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Cultural relativism

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5 claims of cultural relativists

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1 different societies have different moral codes
2 moral code of our society determines what is right or wrong
3 no mor@ truths that hold for all people at all times
4 the moral code of our own society has no special status but one among many
5 It is arrogant for us to judge other cultures we should always be tolerant of them

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The morally right thing to do in anh circumstance is determined by what there are the best reasons for doing

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James rachel