Introduction to the course Flashcards
Kindness is
when with no obvious pay off we are nice to another individual.
Moral differences are
matter of clashes between cultures
According to Elliot Turiel something is immoral if
there is a victim.
According to Jonathan Haidt is everything that
suppresses self interest and makes cooperation possible is part of morality.
Moral violation is when
certain behavior strikes us as wrong and it evokes an emotional response.
Not all moral violations
involve victims.
Thorndike tried to
compare how different people evaluate different actions in money.
First question by Adam Smith
How should we live? How to be a good person?
Second question by Adam Smith
How one establishes what is right and what it wrong?
Consequential approach assumes
that you always need to act in a way that promotes the best consequences,i.e. you always need to choose the option amongst all available that provides a greater good.
One of the main consquentialist was
Bentham
Ticking bomb scenario
when you need to torture someone to find out where the bomb is, you can if it will safe lots of lives.
Deontological approach
there are moral constraints of some actions regardless the consequences.
Categorical imperative
you can’t do certain things if doing them might affect many other aspects of life in a negative way.
Doctrine of double effect says
there is a distinction between doing something in order to reach a greater do and kill someone as byproduct and killing someone intentionally for greater good. (read more)
