Ethics

Ethics

Morals, what is good

Metaphysics

What is reality, not just physical reality?

Fideism

Ethics comes from faith and not reason

Hedonism or Epicureanism

Ethics comes from what makes you happy

Emotivism

Ethics come from what you feel

Duty

Ethis come from rational values like the golden rule

Teleology

Ethics comes from ends toward our ultimate purpose

Practical thinking

Thinking about how to achieve a goal

Productive thinking

Thinking about what to make

Final end

End for which everything else is a means

eudaimonia

Greek word meaning “in good spirits”

Ethical absolutionism

Happiness always requires moral goodness

Ethical spiritualism

Happiness is in the soul and the satisfaction of bodily desires

Ethical objectivism

Happiness is something you are, not something you have

Utilitarianism

Ethics are based on what creates the greatest pleasure for the greatest number of people

Stoicism

Detachment from what can’t be changed, the will to change what can change, and the wisdom to know the difference

Subjective morality

Morality is relative to human feelings

Metaphysics (Kant)

We can only know things spatial and temporal

Good will

Ethics can only come from a moral duty, like respecting laws

Categorical imperative

Something that you must do because its morally right

Aesthetic stage

Part of life that seeks pleasure and power

Ethical stage

Part of life that’s mature and responsible

Ubermensch

The creature which humans were destined to become with no morality

Soren Kierkegaard

We must have an aesthetic stage, ethical stage, and religious stage

Friedrich Nietzsche

Morals and ethics are limits to humans, and we must evolve into an Ubermensch with none of these

Jean-Paul Sartre

God must not exist because we couldn’t have freedom with God, and everything is absurd. Receiving gifts puts you in debt

Gabriel Marcel

Ethics comes from listening to people unbiased, ethics will forever be a mystery

Dietrich von Hildrebrand

Ethics comes from good based on subjectively satisfying, objective good, and response to value

Problem

Something that can be solved because it’s an object

Mystery

Something that can never be solved because its always abstract