Moral Criteria
What is 10C?
This is the normative study of human behavior
What is ethics?
In the conditional "If KU wins, school is cancelled," the phrase "KU wins" is this sort of condition.
What is a sufficient condition?
This interpretation of divine command theory says that right acts are right in virtue of the fact that God commanded them.
What is theological voluntarism?
A collection of people living in close proximity that share values, customs, and institutions.
What is a society?
An action is morally right if and only if the agent believes it is right or sincerely approves of it.
What is S1?
This is the study of what we owe to each other
What is moral philosophy?
An argument has this property if and only if it has all true premises.
What is factual correctness?
This interpretation of divine command theory says that actions are morally right because of some independent standard; God is just wise enough to know this standard.
What is the divine advisor view?
If CR were true, then when Bob is in antebellum Alabama, he only has to do this to figure out whether slavery is right or wrong.
What is ask people?
An action is morally right if and only if it does not violate any of God's commands.
What is DC?
Cheating on your significant other is forbidden from the moral point of view, but has this status from the legal point of view.
What is permissible?
In the conditional "If you're engaged to Taylor Swift, then you're Travis Kelce," the phrase "You're Travis Kelce" is this condition
What is a necessary condition?
If theological voluntarism were true, then under these circumstances no action would be morally right or morally wrong.
What is a godless universe?
Beliefs about forbidden or permitted behavior shared by the vast majority of people in a society.
What is a moral code?
An action is morally right if and only if it is permitted by the moral code of the society in which it is performed.
What is CR?
Eating fast food every day is permissible from the moral point of view, but has this status from the prudential point of view.
What is impermissible?
An argument has this property if and only if the truth of the premises guarantees the truth of the conclusion.
What is validity?
Because of this kingly property, God must be in control of all things: animals, plants, stars, and even (for the theological voluntarist) morality itself.
What is sovereignty?
According to CR, if you were transported to Medieval Europe, you should feel this way towards heretical beliefs, for example.
What is intolerant?
An action, X, is morally right if and only if in performing X, the agent, S, treats all others as S would have them treat S.
What is GR?
This endeavor looks for necessary and sufficient conditions for moral rightness.
What is the fundamental project of moral philosophy?
An argument has this property if and only if it is both valid and factually correct.
What is soundness?
This dilemma claims that God's omnipotence, omniscience, omnibenevolence, and sovereignty are together incompatible with the existence of such things as wildfires, tornados, and earthquakes.
What is the problem of natural evil?
You might think that we have improved in our treatment of oppressed groups in society, but this argument points out that if CR were true, this cannot be the case.
What is the moral progress argument?