WGU ethics
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| Advantage to Virtue Ethics | moral motivation
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| Advantage to Virtue Ethics | doubts about the "ideal" of impartiality
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| Disadvantages to Virtue Ethics | an adequate theory of ethics must provide an understanding of moral character
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| Disadvantages to Virtue Ethics | Incomplete - emphasizes moral virutes/neglects ideas of character
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| Disadvantages to Virtue Ethics | All actions do not fit neatly into a virtue
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| Divine Command Theory | Dilemma: Concept of morality is mysterious
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| Divine Command Theory | Dilemma: The concept of morality makes God's commands arbitrary
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| Divine Command Theory | Dilemma: This conception of morality provides the wrong reasons for moral principles
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| Divine Command Theory | Supports the idea that God is a lawgiver, bud does not compel us to obey him
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| Divine Command Theory | We are free agents
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| Divine Command Theory | Supports that an act is right if God commands it, wrong if he forbids it
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| Theory of Natural Law | Rests on an idea of what world should be like
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| Theory of Natural Law | Idea that everything in nature has a purpose
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| Theory of Natural Law | World is rational in order with values
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| Theory of Natural Law | How things ought to be
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| Theory of Natural Law | Laws of reason which we are able to grasp because God has made us rational beings
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| Social Contract Theory | Thomas Hobbes
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| Social Contract Theory | moral rules need to benefit social living
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| Social Contract Theory | altruism/moral facts are key to understanding ethics: Not God
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| Social Contract Theory | Morality consists in the set of rules, govererning behavior, that rational people will accept, on the condtion that others accept them as well
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| Advantages of the Social Contract Theory | Morally binding rules are ones that facilitate harmonious social living
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| Advantages of the Social Contract Theory | We agree to follow the rules because it is to our advantage to live in a society in which the rules are accepted
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| Advantages of the Social Contract Theory | reciprocity
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| Advantages of the Social Contract Theory | impartiality
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| Disadvantages to the Social Contract Theory | we did not agree to it, our ancestors did, and we should not be excpected to uphold their contracts
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| Disadvantages to the Social Contract Theory | acceptance of the rules is based on others agreeing to them
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| Utlitarianism - Strength | the poor, undeucated should count equally with the rich
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| Utlitarianism - Strength | theory came directly out of social concerns
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| Utilitariansim - Weakness | runs into problems when sentimente is involved
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| Utilitariansim - Weakness | Not enough support for individual rights
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| Utilitariansim - Weakness | happiness cannot be measured
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| Utilitariansim - Weakness | cannot calculate all the effects for all the people
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| Ethical egoism, strength | one's duty is to promote one's self interest
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| Ethical egoism, strength | not necessarily bad if actions benefit others
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| Ethical egoism, strength | ought to do what is in our own best self interest
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| Ethical egoism, weakness | endorses wicked actions, provided they benefit person who does them
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| Ethical egoism, weakness | cannot handle conflict of interests
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| Ethical egoism, weakness | logically inconsistent
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| Ethical egoism, weakness | unacceptably arbirtrary
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