Theory Flashcards
Greek Tradition
Happiness is based on personal virtue
Supportors Thucydides Socrates Plato Aristotle
Religous Traditions
Jewish Bible
Christian Bible
Divine Command
Moral Law
Ethics based on fixed universal laws
Double effect principle
Stoicism
Natural law
Epictetus
Natural Law
Natural law is self-evident
Restraind by human reason
Aquinas
Social contract
Social contract defines ethics
Naturalistic fallacy
Theory of justice
Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Rausseau, Jefferson, Rawls
Kantism
Categorical Imperative
Formulations
Duty
Kant, Royce
Consequential Ethics
Ethics based on consequences
Hedonism and Epicurianism
Ethics based on pleasure
Moderation
Epicures
Hedonism and cyrenean
Ethics based on pleasure with no contraints
Ultilitarianism
Good consequences must be greater than bad consequences
Act utilitarianism
Rule utilitarianism
Greatest happiness principle
Bentham
mill
Altruism
Most good for others
Egoism
Most good for myself
Modern capitalism
Psychological egoism
Ethical egoism
Smith and Rand
Feminist ethics
Ethics of care
based on caring, concern, not hurting
Gilligan and Noddings
Ethics of virtue
Moral character traits
