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ETHICS MIDTERM
ETHICS CRAM
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Hermeneutics
The
philosophical
study of
interpretation
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Virtue
A behavior showing high
moral
standards or the general quality of
goodness
of the person
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Principle
of
Double Effect
The
principle
that our
action
has good and bad effects
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Golden
Mean/Intellectual
virtue
The two extremes of the spectrum that
Aristotle
defined to measure
virtues
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Emotions
Automatic
neural responses
that enter the conscious field which they find expression in the form of
feelings
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A posteriori
A
principle
that can only be known through
human
experience
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Aristotle
Offered
moral
principles of conduct that would guide humans in attaining the "
good life
"
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Natural Law
A portion of eternal law that God instilled into man's mind so that we can grasp it
naturally
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St.
Thomas Aquinas
His ethical principles are
biased
towards
Christian
beliefs
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Eudaimonia
The ultimate goal or end of human
life
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Teleo
Means "to
come
to an
end
"
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Parochialism
Means to be confined to a particular part and such part is elevated to a position of
privilege
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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
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Regret
A product of wrong or bad decisions and normally, these kinds of decisions are done haphazardly as dictated by
upsurge
of
emotions
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Virtue Ethics
An approach to ethics that emphasizes the person's character in
moral thinking
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A priori
A
principle
based on
knowledge
or
concept
that can be known
independent
of
experience
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Conscience
The
natural tendency
of man to apply the principle of
innate disposition
to determine right from wrong
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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
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Kant' Morality
The strict
obedience
to the
categorical imperative
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Categorical Imperative
Dictates that
rational
beings must treat each other as
ends
in themselves and never as a means to some further end
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