LECTURE 3: VALUES Flashcards
“Only _____ are moral.”
men
A kind of morality wherein there is no explicit moral decision (e.g. animals as they act on instinct or from positive and negative reinforcement, cause and effect, and simple problem solving)
Pre-reflective Morality
Two kinds of reinforcement
Classical Conditioning and Operant Conditioning
This is the deliberate human action of some decisive or active agency.
Conduct
This is to be able to make choices and act on them.
Freedom
This is to be obliged to make choices and budget our own lives ; this is our duty to ourselves to exercise our freedom as a rational moral being.
Obligation
“Freedom in making choices is your ________ to yourself to exercise your capacity for deliberation and________ by thinking about the consequences that your actions might entail before making a decision.”
obligation ; reflection
“To decide your own values is to decide to ________.”
philosophize