Kantian Ethics and other concepts

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Normative Hedonism

pleasure should be people’s primary motivation

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Egotistical Hedonism

A person only considering their own pleasure in making choices

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Altruistic hedonism

Pleasure for ALL people is the best way to measure if something is ethical

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Consequentialism

Judges whether something is ethical or not by the consequences

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Utilitarianism

Greatest good for the greatest number of people (can be hard to value)

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Kantian ethics

Fairness, justice, respect. Also has stuff to do regarding free will and self-imposed laws

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Analytic judgements

Clarifying and stating what is already implied in the subject (All bachelors are unmarried)

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Synthetic Judgements

Adding new information that isn’t explicitly stated (All bachelors are alone)

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Maxim

A rule of conduct that a person gives to themselves

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Universalizable Maxim

could be acted on by everyone if they were in the same situation