ETHICS CRAM

Cards (20)

  • Hermeneutics
    The philosophical study of interpretation
  • Virtue
    A behavior showing high moral standards or the general quality of goodness of the person
  • Principle of Double Effect
    The principle that our action has good and bad effects
  • Golden Mean/Intellectual virtue
    The two extremes of the spectrum that Aristotle defined to measure virtues
  • Emotions
    Automatic neural responses that enter the conscious field which they find expression in the form of feelings
  • A posteriori
    A principle that can only be known through human experience
  • Aristotle
    Offered moral principles of conduct that would guide humans in attaining the "good life"
  • Natural Law
    A portion of eternal law that God instilled into man's mind so that we can grasp it naturally
  • St. Thomas Aquinas
    His ethical principles are biased towards Christian beliefs
  • Eudaimonia
    The ultimate goal or end of human life
  • Teleo
    Means "to come to an end"
  • Parochialism
    Means to be confined to a particular part and such part is elevated to a position of privilege
  • Ethics of Care
    A strand of virtue ethics that holds the idea that a moral act is centered on social and environmental relationships in which care is the main virtue
  • Regret
    A product of wrong or bad decisions and normally, these kinds of decisions are done haphazardly as dictated by upsurge of emotions
  • Virtue Ethics
    An approach to ethics that emphasizes the person's character in moral thinking
  • A priori
    A principle based on knowledge or concept that can be known independent of experience
  • Conscience
    The natural tendency of man to apply the principle of innate disposition to determine right from wrong
  • Synderesis
    An innate disposition of the human mind by virtue that we humans are able to grasp the principles of natural law without need of inquiry
  • Kant' Morality
    The strict obedience to the categorical imperative
  • Categorical Imperative
    Dictates that rational beings must treat each other as ends in themselves and never as a means to some further end