Ancient Philosophers
The father of Moral Philosophy
Socrates
Had a contractual view of justice
Glaucon
In The Republic, it made a shepherd invisible
The Ring of Gyges
Plato's View of Justice
Virtue, Intrinsic, The Highest Good
Believed that air, water, and aperion were the particles world is made of
The pre-socratics
The Milesians
Thales, Anaximander, Anaxemenes
Concerned with the nature of ethics (what "good" and "bad" are)
Metaethics
The person who participates in a dialogue
Interlocutor
Glaucon's 1st category of "good" (eating ice cream, playing games)
Good for its own sake, Pleasurable good
The founder of Virtue Ethics
Aristotle
A belief that there are moral facts (objective)
Moral absolutism
Plato said that Philosophy begins in
Wonder
Glaucon's 3rd category of good (homework, running for Mrs. Vitulli)
Good only because you get something out of it
Wrote The Republic
Plato
The Boo-Yay Theory of Ethics
Emotivism
The part of the soul that seeks pleasure
Appetite
They say good is what benefits the most people and is judged by consequences
Utilitarians
Believed morality in the modern world is fragmented
Alisdair MacIntyre
The Catastrophe in A Disquieting Suggestion
The Enlightenment
A warriors, such as Achilles would use mostly this part of his soul
Spirit
They say good (morality) is based on doing our duty
Deontologists (Deontological Ethics)