Moral Concepts
Doing no harm, as in Gandhi’s principle.
What is Ahimsa?
Branch of ethics that asks “What should I do?”
What is Normative Ethics?
Rights protected from interference by others or the state.
What are negative laws?
AI intelligence that surpasses human intellect.
What is superintelligence
A type of rights that can be applied to all people at all times.
What are universal rights?
Recognizing our moral judgments can be mistaken.
What is moral fallibility?
Evaluates morality based on consequences.
What is Utilitarianism?
Programs correcting historical inequalities, sometimes including quotas.
What is Affirmative Action?
What is valid?
The rule or guideline behind an action is called a ____
What is a maxim?
Ability to imagine others’ experiences ethically.
What is moral imagination?
Type of ethical theory that determines morality based on rights observers' fulfillment of duties to rights' holders.
What is Ethics of Rights?
This ethical approach argues for moral respect and fair treatment across all cultures.
What is ethical multiculturalism?
The truth of a the premises and conclusion of a philosophical argument.
What is soundness?
Ethical decision-making requires recognizing this to avoid unfair influence.
What is a bias?
Conflict with no clear morally correct choice.
What a moral dilemma?
Version of utilitarianism evaluating morality based on the assumed consequences of an action that is likely the same consequence for others.
What is Act Utilitarianism?
Efforts to fully integrate minority cultures into the dominant culture.
What is assimilation?
A failure in reasoning which renders an argument invalid.
What is a fallacy?
The individuals who have an obligation or duty to the rights of others.
Who are rights observers?
Rule in Kantian ethics that must always be followed.
What is the Categorical Imperative?
The individuals or beings that have an entitlement to some set of rights that obligates others.
Who are rights holders?
This attitude values diverse cultures and assumes that there is something valuable to learn from others' culture and apply to one's own cultural practices.
What is ethical cosmopolitanism?
The claim that AI or machines have moral status.
What is posthumanism?
Kantian ethics teaches that we should never treat others merely as a ____, but always as an ____.
What is a means to an end and an end in-itself?