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In dit paper heb ik het contractualisme van Scanlon uitgelegd. Met deze contractualistische theorie probeert hij het utilitarisme om te vormen. Zijn kritiek op het utilitarisme is namelijk dat dit het individu over het hoofd ziet. Daarom heb ik ook het utilitarisme uitgelegd en dan specifiek de theorie van Harsanyi, waarbij deze kritiek omzeild wordt. Het is een duidelijke uitleg van zowel het contractualisme als het utilitarisme en het debat hiertussen. Ik kreeg er een 8 voor. De feedback van m...

Thea 201 Final Exam Questions and Answers Already Passed Ethical reasoning consists of following the rules set out by moral and legal codes. False Justice-based ethics takes for granted that people are autonomous and independent from one another, while care-based ethics assumes that people are interconnected through relationships of dependence. True Match the Ancient Greek individual with the correct description. Pericles-Leader of Athens during The Golden Age of the fifth century...

According to Epicurus, which desires may be occasionally satisfied when doing so does not lead to discomfort or pain? correct answer: desires that are natural but not necessary According to Aristotle, human happiness consists of: correct answer: pleasure Which of the following ideas was central to Thomas Hobbes's philosophy of values? correct answer: Good and evil simply denote that which a person desires or hates. Which of the following is considered a moral evil by Plato? correct ...

According to Epicurus, which desires may be occasionally satisfied when doing so does not lead to discomfort or pain? correct answer: desires that are natural but not necessary According to Aristotle, human happiness consists of: correct answer: pleasure Which of the following ideas was central to Thomas Hobbes's philosophy of values? correct answer: Good and evil simply denote that which a person desires or hates. Which of the following is considered a moral evil by Plato? correc...

Normative Ethics correct answer: search for and justification of moral standards, or norms; rationally establish the proper guides for our actions and judgments; evaluative; stating what is right Meta-ethics correct answer: the study of the meaning and justification of basic moral beliefs; what does it mean for an action to be right applied ethics correct answer: the use of moral norms concepts to resolve practical moral issues; what to do in a specific case Descriptive Ethics correc...

What is theory (a looking, viewing or beholding (NOT creating, making or doing) an explanation) a building is not a theory Theory Proposed explanation of empirical phenomena, made in a way consistent with the scientific method Theory proposed explanation of empirical phenomena Ontology the study of the nature of being or reality Epistomology the study of knowledge Positive Theory Descriptive - assertions about reality Not unbiased Positive Thory ...

The following topics are covered in these notes: 1. Meaning of philosophy 2. Theories of justice 2.1 Consequentialism 2.2 Utilitarianism 2.3 Deontology 2.4 Ubuntu 2.5 Virtue ethics 2.6 Social contract -Types of contractualism -Advantages of social contract -Types of consent 3. Equality v. Equity 4. Kant's theory

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