Week 7 - Lecture 13 - Ethics of security Flashcards
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What is ethics?
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A subdomain of philosophy which focusses on how we ought to act
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Utalitarian ethics
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- John Stuart Mill
- Form of consequensialism
- People are driven by pleasure, not pain or fear
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Consequensialism
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The right thing to do is the thing with the right consequence
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The great hapiness Principle
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Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote hapiness
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Deontological ethics
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- Immanuel Kant
- Obligation or dury ethics
- Not the consequences, but the actions themselves are most important
- Individuals are valueable
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Categorical Imperative
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Act as if we want it to be a universal law
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A Just Society
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used to describe what a society ought to be. It generally appeals to notions of fairness, equality, and liberty
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Robert Nozich’s minimal state
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- Very minimal state / society
- Individual freedom is most important
- The state may not force citizens into helping others and prohibit activities to people for their own good / protection
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John Rawls’ Justice as Fairness
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- How do we devite basic goods?
- The ‘Veil of Ignorance’
