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MLS 603 Moral Philosophies Underlying Professional Ethics

Ethical Ideas Involve Questions of

Logos

Liberty

Rights, divine, natural and civil

Consequences and motivations

 Subjectivity and objectivity Laws, divine, natural and civil
The problem of evil Wickedness Normative ethics and metaethics
Happiness, eudaimonia, hedonism Free will and determinism Justice
Virtue and vice Duty Means and ends
Good and evil Categorical imperative Authenticity
The good life Social contracts Reason, sympathy, conscience or compassion
Selfishness and altruism Care Intuitionism, emotivism, prescriptivism
Utility Circle of considerability Monism, pluralism, relativism, impartiality

 Is and ought, fact and value

 Ecofeminism Realism, idealism, rationalism, empiricism, pragmatism, hermeneutics, existentialism, phenomenology
Casuistry    
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