Community College of Denver: History
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The Good Life |
Freedom |
Rights, divine, natural and civil |
| Virtue and Vice | Liberty | Laws, divine, natural and civil |
| Happiness, eudaimonia, and hedonism | Free will and determinism | Justice |
| Good and Evil | Duty | Means and Ends |
| Consequences and motivations | Categorical imperative | Authenticity |
| Selfishness and altruism | Social contracts | Reason, sympathy, conscience or compassion |
| Utility | Care | Intuitionism, emotivism, prescriptivism |
| Normative ethics and metaethics | Circle of considerablity | Monism, Pluralism, Relativism |
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Is and ought, fact and value |
Subjectivity and objectivity | Realism, idealism, rationalism, empiricism, pragmatism, hermeneutics, existentialism, phenomenology |
Deontological/Nonconsequentialist Theories: theories defining the right action independently of/prior to considerations of good/bad outcomes.
- Divine Command: moral principles are determined by God.
- Natural Law: moral principles are revealed by reason with reference to natural needs.
- Kantian Ethics: moral principles are revealed/determined by reason with reference to logical consistency.
- Contractualism: moral principles are determined by hypothetical/actual agreement between specified parties.
- Intuitionism/Prima Facie (Guiding) Duties: moral principles are revealed through intuition.
Teleological/Consequentialist Theories: theories holding that one ought to live one's life so as to maximize "the good" and or minimize "the bad" (i.e., the good is prior to the right).
- Whatever I expect to promote my (long-term) interests (Ethical Egoism).
- Utility, summed impersonally over all affected entities (Utilitarianism).
- Human excellence (Virtue Ethics/Perfectionism).
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