The Existence of God
This argument, made by Descartes in the Meditations, depends solely on an understanding of the essence of God.
What is the ontological argument?
This is what consequentialism says we should focus on when determining good and bad.
What are the consequences of our actions?
What is the view that different races have different essences, or essential characteristics?
What is racial essentialism?
This figure, spoofed by Voltaire in Candide, made the argument that God has created the "best of all possible worlds".
Who is Leibniz?
These are the three kinds of moral theories we have looked at in this class.
What are Deontology (Kantian Ethics), Consequentialism (Utilitarianism), and Virtue Ethics?
What is the view that race does not exist, and that we should radically change the way we speak about them?
What is racial eliminativism?
This is what distinguishes Adams' argument from the existence of God from those of, say, Descartes and Aquinas.
What is a argument from moral ontology?
This is the distinction between Normative Ethics and Meta-Ethics.
What is a focus on the means of determining "What we should do?" versus a focus on "What should our moral systems do?"
When Beauvoir claims that "one is made, not born, a woman", this is what she thinks woman has been made into by society.
What is The Other?
This figure offered, in the voice of "Cleanthes", an objection to the Argument from Design.
Who is Hume?
This is the response from someone like Mill to the claim that Utilitarianism is a moral theory that is "fit only for swines".
What is the distinction between higher and lower pleasures?
Intersectionality, according to Crenshaw
What is the conceptualization of oppression happening at the overlap between different features of our identity, which often means that those with overlapping oppressed identities have a different experience than those belonging to either category?
These are the five proofs that Aquinas offers for the existence of God (name and describe one).
What are the:
Argument from Motion
Argument from Efficient Cause
Argument from Possibility & Necessity
Argument from Perfection
Argument from Teleology
This is the feature that distinguishes moral from non-moral facts, according to Mackie and other non-Cognitivists.
What is "built-in to-be-doneness"?
[Group Answer!] This is the Epicurean argument for why we should not be afraid of death - represented in premise-conclusion form.
[Best representation wins!]