Ethics Unit
Deontological approach to ethics; features three versions of ideas called, "Categorical Imperatives".
What is Kantianism?
A movie in which we should all coerce Mr. Thomas to let us watch that involves "Machine Nudity."
What is Ex Machina?
Born 544 BCE - Died 496 BCE
A Chinese general who is famous for explaining his tactics through a famous book called, "The Art of War."
Who is Sun Tzu?
"God is Dead! He remains dead! And we have killed him."
Who is Friedrich Nietzsche?
Known formerly as "Erotic Philosophers" according to Mr. Thomas.
Philosopher that wrote "The Virtue of Selfishness."
Who is Ayn Rand?
A test in which someone created in order to test whether or not a machine could pass a human when speaking to another human behind closed doors.
What is the Turing Test?
Born 50 AD - Died 135 AD
Stoic Philosopher, born into slavery, that wrote "The Discourses."
Who is Epictetus?
"When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they cannot tell good from evil."
Who is Marcus Aurelius?
The basketball player mentioned in "The Entitlement theory of Justice" by Robert Nozick.
Who is Wilt Chamberlain?
A "calculus" that was created by Jeremy Bentham in order to calculate the "degree or amount of pleasure" that an action may or may not create.
What is Speciesism?
Born 428/423 BC - Died 348/347 BC
Euthyphro Dilemma which challenged Divine Command theory in class.
Who is Plato?
"Cogito Ergo Sum"
or
"I think, therefore I am"
Who is Rene Descartes?
A system where a large pasture is divided into smaller paddocks allowing livestock to be moved from one paddock to the other easily.
An Athenian tragedy written by Sophocles, in which we went over the moral dilemma that is faced by a character.
What is "Antigone"?
A random worker who's entire personality changed after being struck by a metal rod through his brain.
Who is Phineas Gage?
Born 1813 - Died 1855
Known to be the founding father of Existentialism
Who is Soren Kierkegaard?
"Reason is and ought only to be the slave of the passions."
or
"Reason is and ought only to be the slave of emotion."
Who is David Hume?
The poor old man who frequently asked Mr. Thomas for what?
The same man who took off for Bel Rre road searching for the ____?
What is a Motor pool?
What is Telos?
All four of the Personal Identity theories we went over.
What is the Body Theory, Brain Theory, Psychological Continuity Theory, and the Soul Theory?
Born 1711 - Died 1776
Wrote "A Treatise of Human Nature" and coined an idea based on a piece of silverware.
Who is David Hume?
"Man is condemned to be free."
Who is Jean-Paul Sartre?
He was found by Mr. Thomas sat at a Starbucks chair, staring into the nowhere, into the nothingness..