Consequentialism
This is the primary version of consequentialism we explored this semester.
What is utilitarianism?
Deontology primarily evaluates THIS to evaluate the morality of an action.
What are the reasons for which an action is performed?
Virtue Ethics primarily evaluates THIS to determine the morality of an action.
What is the character of the person performing the action?
THIS is the crowning concept of Catholic Social Teaching.
What is human dignity?
THIS CONCEPTION OF JUSTICE strives to establish the institutional conditions necessary for individual and collective human flourishing.
What is the enabling conception of justice?
Consequentialism primarily evaluates THIS to evaluate the morality of an action.
What are the consequences produced by the action?
Deontology identifies THIS as something intrinsically good.
What is a good will?
Virtue Ethics identifies THIS as something intrinsically good.
What is Happiness?
According to Catholic theology, THIS CAPACITY was given to humans as a sign of being created in the image of the creator.
What is freedom?
THIS ASPECT OF OPPRESSION is rooted in social practices that threaten certain members of social groups with harm (both physical and otherwise).
What is violence?
Utilitarianism identifies THIS as something intrinsically good.
What is pleasure/utility?
THIS CONCEPT is used to clarify the value of a good will without reference to anything extrinsic.
What is duty?
One can truly be considered happy only at THIS point in their life.
When is after death?
THIS PRINCIPLE identifies the social conditions required for ALL people, rather than just individuals, to live fulfilling lives.
What is the principle of the common good?
THIS MODEL views social groups as any classification of persons according to some attribute (e.g., eye color).
What is the aggregate model of social groups?
The utility calculus calculates THIS.
What is the greatest BALANCE of pleasure and pain?
THIS PRINCIPLE is developed to help us evaluate whether to follow particular rules of conduct.
What is the categorical imperative?
THIS CONCEPT distinguishes moral virtues from intellectual virtues.
What is habit?
What is all living things (plants/animals)?
THIS ASPECT OF OPPRESSION operates by systematically excluding members of certain social groups from participating in society.
What is marginalization?
THIS ANNOYINGLY TECHNICAL CONCEPT is applied as a property to actions that achieve the best ratio of pleasure and pain.
What is optimificity?
Give an example of a hypothetical imperative.
If you desire X, then you should Y.
Julia Annas identifies THESE THREE QUALITIES that apply to virtues.
What is persistence, reliability, and characteristic-ness?
Following from the principle of solidarity, THIS DEMAND ensures that society accords basic respect to the lives even of the most powerless.
What is the preferential option for the poor?
THIS ASPECT OF OPPRESSION defines what is normal/abnormal or acceptable/unacceptable from a privileged cultural vantage point.
What is cultural imperialism?