Fall Semester Exam Review

Unit 1: Intro to Ethics & Morality

● ‘Philosophy’ definition

● Types of philosophy

● ‘Ethics’ definition

● What’s at stake when we do ethics?

● Drawbacks of not doing ethics

Unit 2: Relativism

● Objectivity vs subjectivity

● Absolutism

● Cultural relativism

● Subjective relativism

● Implications of moral relativism

● Relativism as self contradictory

● Relativism as impracticable

● MLK & relativism

● MLK - Negative vs positive peace

Unit 3: Secular Ethics - Utilitarianism

● Consequentialism

● Optimific

● Principle of utility

● Hedonism & pleasure

● Disinterested & benevolent spectator

Unit 3: Secular Ethics - Kant & Deontology

● Deontology

● Hypothetical imperatives

● Categorical imperatives

● Perfect duties

● Imperfect duties

● Principle of universalizability

● Means - ends principle

Unit 3: Secular Ethics - Virtue Ethics

● Aristotle on character types

● Moral exemplar

● Emotions related to virtue

● Meaning of virtue

● Virtue vs vice

● Continence vs incontinence

● Eudaimonia

Unit 3: Secular Ethics - Rights Theory

● What is a right?

● John Locke on rights what rights people have, source of rights

● Tom Regan on rights

● Experiencing subjects of life

● Rawls on rights