W.D. Ross appeals to this to ground his moral system
What is Prima Facie duties?
Difference between positive law and moral law
What is legally right/wrong and what is truly right/wrong?
Three motives for secularism
What is bloody wars of religion, contracts and freedom, and modern science?
Aquinas is optimistic about this
The subject of Appiah's Essay
What is, "What Will Future Generations Condemn Us For?"
Ross's seven duties
What is fidelity, reparation, gratitude, justice, beneficence, self-improvement and non-maleficence?
Paul Tillich's moral theory
What is Sin as Separation?
Three kinds of secular moral systems
What is Utilitarianism, Intuitionist deontology, and Kantianism?
Aquinas' theological virtues
What is faith, hope, and charity?
Three grades of rational support
What is strongly established, reasonably established and unestablished?
Benefits of accepting Ross's view
What is captures relationship-based concerns, does not rely on consequences or oppressive hierarchies?
MLK's personality standard
What is a just law uplifts human personality & a unjust law degrades human personality?
Religious group responsible for reframing some of the traditional hierarchies
What is the Protestants? (reframe capitalism, profit-seeking and loans)
Reasoning behind moral status of sexual acts
What is sexual acts aimed at procreation are good, sexual acts that are not aimed at procreation are bad?
What is reject a premise and reject rational support?
Specification problem
What is how does a specific duty require us to do in any given case?
Martin Buber's moral theory
Secularism looks to avoid these
What is appeals to supernatural sources and contentious metaphysical assumptions?
Catholic epistemology
What is the Catholic church is the epistemic authority?
Appiah's common dodges
What is tradition, human nature, and necessity?
What is no clear hierarchy when duties conflict with each other?
MLK's kinds of segregation harms
What are direct harms, systemic harms and dignitary harms?
Modern science led to this
What is skepticism? (natural purposes, theism, providential design, and scriptural authority)
What is loving union with God?
Validity and soundness
What is premise guarantees the truth of the premise and valid + true premises?