Ethics
the branch of knowledge that deals with moral principles.
What is ethics?
the power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one's own discretion.
What is Free Will?
the creator and ruler of the universe and source of all moral authority; the supreme being.
What is God?
the complex, active process of interpreting sensory information to organize, identify, and understand the world and one's environment.
What is Perception?
the branch of philosophy that studies the nature of the mind, mental events, consciousness, and their relationship to the physical body, particularly the...___
What is Mind?
"If the shepherd had known the good, he would have done the good."
What is Socrates/Plato?
"God, as I've explained, has seen all possible outcomes and has chosen the right path from all of them...So you can't really say my 'choices' were choices at all, can you?"
What is Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz?
"The intricacy of the the manufacturing, the wall all of the gears work together seamlessly. There is only one explanation: there must have been a designer!"
What is William Paley?
"I must exist because by doubting that I exist I am involved in the act of doubting...[which] implies the existence of a doubter."
What is Rene Descartes?
"The physical and nonphysical worlds are separate, but only appear to interact."
What is Gottfield Wilhelm Leibniz?
"That we're all just looking out for our own self interests... and only a competing self interest, like fear of punishment, can deter us."
What is Thomas Hobbes?
"____ is the doctrine that all events are caused to occur by the past state of affairs and the laws of physics"
What is Democritus?
"It's animals and plant that became suited to their environment...if the environment changes...the creatures die, move, or adapt...however complex it looks...it's possible without a guiding hand."
What is Charles Darwin?
"I believe that we are all born as blank slates, and come to know the world only through our sense-through experience."
What is John Locke?
"If we have knowledge that could not have come from our sensory experience from the outside world...our minds must have received this knowledge from some other realm."
What is Plato?
An act is right only if it is motivated by this sense of duty and not desire
What is Deontologist?
the ability of two or more things to exist, live, or work together successfully without conflict
What is compatibility?
An unwillingness to change one's beliefs despite any and all evidence to the country
What is Dogmatism?
The doctrine that all of human knowledge has its origins in sensory experience
What is Empiricism?
Two realms, physical and non-physical
What is dualism?
The theory that the mind and body are separate substances that are synchronized but that do not interact casually with one another.
What is Parallelism?
The theory that only minds and their ideas exist
What is Idealism?
The theory that an action's moral status is determined by the will of some God or gods
What is Divine Command Theory?
The property of some deductive arguments.
What is Validity?
The theory that only physical things exist.
What is Physicalism?