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Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that "involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior". The field of ethics, along with aesthetics, concerns matters of value; these fields comprise the branch of philosophy called axiology. |
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- Normativity
- Consequentialism
- Deontology
- Care ethics
- Virtue Ethics
- Divine Command Theory (technically metaethics, not normative?)
Concepts
- Fact-value Distinction
- Is-ought fallacy
- Normativity (ought)
- Reason to
- Act
- behave
- feel #to/expand
- Value
- Commands
- Prohibitions
- Permissions
- Justification, imperiousness #to/expand
- Reason to
- Responsibility
- Accountability
- Obligatory vs praiseworthy
- Acts can be morally obligatory vs morally praiseworthy
- Failing obligation implies Blame, culpability, fault
- Whereas not doing something praiseworthy just means you didn't do something above and beyond.
- Acts can be morally obligatory vs morally praiseworthy
- Tragedy of the Commons
- Rights
- Ethical Code, Principle
- Forward thinking vs backward thinking, as in Retributive justice vs deterrence #to/expand
- Life (concept)
- Politics & Sociology
- Equanimity #to/expand
- Guilt (emotion)
- Shame
- Moral absolutism
- Banality of Evil
- Descriptive Ethics
- Wittgenstein Forms of life
- Matthew Arnold - Sweetness and light
- Iris Murdoch - Being understanding
- Irony, wit, Satire, Humor, Absurdism
- Seriousness, principled, stoic vs play, danger, humor, etc.
- Existentialism, Aesthetics
- Virtue
- Vice
- Stoicism
- Epicureanism
- Hedonism
- Objectivism
Rational/analytical/objective/individualistic/quantitative
- Deontology
- Consequentialism
- Justice
- Fairness
- Equality
- Choice
- Social contract (contractarianism)
- Arrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Free Will, Compatibilism
- Fine print, terms of service
- legalism, legalistic, life as court of law and lawyerly reasoning and perception
- Legitimacy, Authenticity
- Power (physics), Authority
- Quantitative
- impersonal, uniform, impartial, simplicity and elegance
- Punishment, Retributive justice, Discipline
Sympathetic/compassionate/collective/social/relational/generative/creative/qualitative
- Care ethics
- Virtue Ethics
- Altruism (ethics)
- Sentience
- Grace
- Empathy
- Forgiveness
- "Be the bigger man"
- Sympathy
- Compassion
- Generosity
- Moral Circle Expansion
- Getting on same team
- Camraderie
- fraternity #to/expand
- Identity (philosophy)
- Common good
- Beneficence (ethics)
- Reason/justice analysis a la Carol Gilligan and Nel Noddings critiques
- When there is poverty of impetus or nothing indicating response, reaction, redress, etc. - what is the justification/rationale for action? - Creative, generative/generous, altruism. #to/expand
- non-justice-based ideas - not reactive. Proactive, not reconciling but creating, putting in the world, etc.
- extend an olive branch
- faith-like, non-rational, altruism, beneficent actions, generosity, grace
- generation, creation of good
- Pay it forward
- leave the world a better place than you found it
- leave no trace
- Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense—the creative act.
- Qualitative
- particularity, embededness, partisan, partial, stakes, personal, complexity and ornateness, baroqueness, a la Alan Watts, prickles and goo #to/expand
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