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Test 5 Flashcards

1
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Man’s Power over Nature

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EX: Airplane, Wireless, and Contraceptive

Sometimes it is power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

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The Tao

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The kind of man the teachers wished to produce and the motives for producing him.
A norm to which the teachers themselves were subject and from which they claimed no liberty to depart.
Product of education.

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Conditioners

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Motivators/the creators of motives.

Produce Conscious

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De-homunculize

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(demonize) Science performs this, and it must do so if it is to prevent the abolition of the human species.

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5
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Skinner’s Totalitarian Society

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Behavioral Scientist (Harvard) who stated that we submit ourselves completely to the ‘technology of behavior’ and so change ourselves and our society from the ground up.

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Classical approach to ethics

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All are apologetic: stakes a claim and defends it

All are noetic: shared knowledge rather than shared ignorance

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Pluralist approach to ethics

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All are anapologetic: refuses to stake out a position.
All are anoetic: Arguments appeal to shared ignorance
“God does not belong in Political Theory”

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Original Sin

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Three greatest troubles of public life come from the Fall

  1. We do wrong
  2. Intellectual: we not only misbehave but misthink, do wrong and call it right.
  3. Strategic
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Progressivism

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Thinks that If only the citizens would stand aside, government would fix everything.

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Libertarianism

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Thinks that if only the government would stand aside, the market would fix everything.

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Stages of Sin

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Temptation, Toleration, Approval

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Conscience

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Weakened by Neglect
Used as a restrain/resistance.
Comes from within and without (culture)
Active force that both holds us back and drives us on.

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Antigone

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Forbidden by the king to bury her dead brother

Uses divine law to attain what she wants

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14
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Verbal Revelation

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“Law written on the heart”

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General Revelation

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Every human being receives this.

Makes us aware of God’s existence and requirements so that we cannot help knowing that we have a problem with sin.

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Special Revelation

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Transmitted by witnesses and recorded only in the Bible.

Tells us how to solve the problem of sin.

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Core Principles

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These are the laws that we CANT NOT know

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Derived Principles

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Our knowledge of these principles are Weakened by neglect and erased by culture.

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Moral Relativism

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Simply denying that the core principles are right for all.

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Mere Moral Realism

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Admits that the core principles are right for all, BUT denies they are known to all.

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Objective Needs produced by guilty knowledge

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Confession, Atonement, Reconciliation, and Justification

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22
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Noahide Commandments

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Also known as Natural Law because God had given certain general rules to all the descendants of noah.

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Natural Law

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Suffering the Natural consequences of violation of the law.

24
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Utilitarianism

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Secular versions states that the morally right action is always the one that brings about the greatest possible total happiness.

25
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Thomas Aquinas

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Gave the best summary of Natural Law

Moral law is right for all and known to all.

26
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Diminishers of the Disciplinary effects of natural consequences

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  1. Time lag: not every consequence of violating the natural law strikes immediately.
  2. Comes from us “Dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.” Escape
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Friedrich Nietzsche

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“If men took God seriously, they would still be burning heretics at the stake.

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Types of Skeptics

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Utter skeptic, Partial Skeptic, Non-skeptic

29
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Reasons for Tolerance

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To prevent greater evils or advance greater good. (classical approach)

30
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Errors of Intolerance

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Softheadedness; an excess of indulgence

Narrowmindedness: a deficiency of indulgence

31
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Definition of Tolerance

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To put up with it even though we might be tempted to suppress it.

32
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Definition of Religion

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It is an ultimate concern or unconditioned loyalty

Either acknowledged, unacknowledged, or incomplete.

33
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Aristotle

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Interdependence of all moral virtues

34
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Unity of the Virtues

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Every moral virtue depends on practical wisdom and vice versa.

35
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Compensation

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Violation of a basic human bond leads to burdened conscience to instantly establish an abnormal one.

36
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Recruitment

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Transgressors strive to gather a substitute community around themselves or require society to submit. (al-Queida)

37
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Need to Confess

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Guilt cuts us off from God and man

38
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Need to Atone

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Arises from the knowledge of a Debt that must be paid

39
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Need to Confess

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Arises from transgression against the truth.

40
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What Deterrence presupposes

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  1. Inhibition of Acts of Vice by the Threat of Legal Punishment
  2. Limited Effectiveness
41
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Hume on Public Virtue

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Observed that men act less virtuously in their public capacities than in their private because they are driven less by a craven for goodness than by a desire for honor.

42
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Filtration Strategies

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Ascription, Achievement, Examination, Approbation.

43
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Types of Rectitude and their Deviations

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Rectitude of Judgment: Lost by only seeing part of the picture
Rectitude of Passion: Lost through excess or deficiency.
Rectitude of will:

44
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Constitutional Balance

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Setting selfish groups against each other so as to Check Vice and Give Leverage to virtue.

45
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Aristotle

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Theory of balance said the Few and the Many might be balanced by a middle class.

46
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Channeling

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Virtuous motives are shaped and directed so that they give rise to the same behavior to which virtue would give rise.

47
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Augustine on the love of Glory

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Roman required a society to fixed statuses and an arena for compensation in quest of glory.

48
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Adam Smith and Alexis de Tocqueville

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Believed that commercial love of wealth requires a society to fixed statuses and an arena for competition in the pursuit of gain.

49
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G.K. Chesterton

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“The Well and the Shadows”

Wrote why he hated hitlers way of not defending the family.

50
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Paradoxes of Inculcation

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Paradox of the Treacherous Good, Paradox of Elevation, Paradox of Countervailing Vice.

51
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Paradox of the Treacherous Good

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Lesson: a man must be turned around (convert)

52
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Paradox of Elevation

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Lesson: A man must be turned in the right direction (word of God)

53
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Paradox of Conutervailing Vice

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Lesson: A man must be transformed (Gods grace)

54
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Subsidiarity

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Govt honors virtue and protects its teachers, but w/o attempting to take their place.
The state must get out of the way of the true teachers and keep other things from getting in their way.

Govt 490 (5 decks)

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