Morality as a Social Contract

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  • Created on: 01-04-14 14:31
If we understand morality as a social contract this means we think morality is motivated by our...
self interest
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Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau all describe the way we lived before the Social Contract as a state of ...
nature
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Hobbes believed life in the state of nature was 'nasty, brutish and ...'
short
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One problem encountered as a result of seeing morality as self-interest is the Problem of the
Free Loader
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The ....Dilemma shows why acting in our self-interest does not always bring about the best outcome
Prisoners
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Because we didn't actually at any point sign a contract philsophers often describe our agreement to the Social Contract as ....
tacit
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The doctrine that argues that self-interest is acheiving what we would want as completely rational beings is called...
rational egosim
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Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau all describe the way we lived before the Social Contract as a state of ...

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Hobbes believed life in the state of nature was 'nasty, brutish and ...'

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One problem encountered as a result of seeing morality as self-interest is the Problem of the

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The ....Dilemma shows why acting in our self-interest does not always bring about the best outcome

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