Actions are intrinsically right or wrong regardless of the consequences
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Descriptive Ethics
This describes and explains different ethical practices. Not judgemental
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Emotivism
Atheory that is non cognitive that holds all moral judgements are simply expressions of positive or negative feelings [AJ Ayer + CL Stevenson]
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Immoral
An act that is considered bad or wrong
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Intuitionism / Ethical non-naturalism
A theory that states that moral truths are known by a special kind of perception
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Meta Ethics
The study of the meaning of ethical statements and terms such as "good" "bad" "right" and "wrong"
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Morality
This concerns which actions are right and wrong, rather than the character of the person
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Normative Ethics
A term for an ethic which asks and judges which actions are right and wrong
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Prescriptivism
A theory that contends that moral statements are not describing an opinionbut have an intrinsic sense that others out to agree and follow
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Relativism
Different ethical systems that claims each culture or beliefs are right within that culture and that it is impossible to judge another culture objectively [JL Mackie]
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Teleological
Any theory that judge the rightness or wrongness of a given act by consideration of the consequences
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Objective
Truth is objectively real irrespective of one's individual viewpoint {Cognitive}
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Subjective
Each persons' values and beliefs are relative to that person alone and can't be judged externally {Non Cognitive}
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Ethical Cognitivism
"Definism". Naturalists believe that statements of fact (is) can imply statements of moral obligation (ought)
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Ethical Non Cognitivism
The theory that ethical statements cannot be derived from empirical sense experience
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Ethical Naturalism
The theory that moral values can be derived from empirical sense experience
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
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Actions are intrinsically right or wrong regardless of the consequences
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Deontological Ethics
Card 3
Front
This describes and explains different ethical practices. Not judgemental
Back
Card 4
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Atheory that is non cognitive that holds all moral judgements are simply expressions of positive or negative feelings [AJ Ayer + CL Stevenson]
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