Key Terms Flashcards
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Deontological?
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From the Latin for “Duty”, ethics focused on the intrinsic rightness and wrongness of actions.
2
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Telos?
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The end, or purpose, of something.
3
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Natural Law?
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A deontological theory based on behaviour that accords with given laws or moral rules (given by God) that exist independently of human societies and systems.
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Synderesis?
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To follow good and avoid evil, the rule which all precepts follows.
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Secondary Precepts?
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The laws which follow from primary precepts.
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Primary Precepts?
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The most importance rules in life: to protect life, to reproduce, to live in community, to teach the young to believe in God.
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Practical reason?
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The tool which makes moral decisions.
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Eudaimonia?
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Living well, as an ultimate end in life which all other actions should lead towards.
