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a posteriori: justified based on expirience
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a priori: justified on understanding or reason
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acting from duty: perform the action because it's my duty, regardless if i'm inclined to or if it is in my interests
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acting in accordance with duty: do the action that the duty commands because i'm inclined to and it pleases me or it's in my interest
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anti-rationalism: the view that ethical properties aren't discoverable by reason
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autonomy: capacity to engage in self-directed behavior in pursuit of ends of our own choosing "a sense of freedom"
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demonstrative reason: relations
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Deontological or Duty-based Ethical theories: it's our duty because it's our humanity
"rules bind you to your duty"
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duty: a necessity of acting from respect for the moral law
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emotivism: an ethical theory that regards ethical and value judgments as expressions of feeling or attitude and prescriptions of action, rather than assertions or reports of anything
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empiricism: -theory of knowledge that asserts that knowledge comes only or primarily via sensory experience
-our beliefs are a result of accumulated habits, developed in response to accumulated sense experiences
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humanity: those features that are distinctly human
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Humanity Formulation of CI: act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always at the same time as an end and never as simply as it means
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imperfect duty: you must sometimes do it, to some extent
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maxim: an absolute moral statement about a universal truth
(when in S-TYPE situation, perform ACT A in order to attach END E)
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passions: emotions, feelings, desires
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perfect duty: you do it always, to the full extent
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practicality: one can not be motivated by reason alone, requiring the input of passions (reason can't be behind morality)
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probable reason: matters of fact
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Sentimentalism: idea that morality is grounded in moral sentiments or emotions-the primary view of the nature of moral facts or moral beliefs (meta-physical)
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the good will: act in accordance with duty not out of inclination but rather out of respect for the moral law
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Universal Law: unconditional moral law that applies to all rational beings and is independent of any personal motive or desire
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Universal Law Formation of CI: act only by that maxim which you can will to be a universal law
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virtue and vice: moral distinctions, made by emotions or feelings, that are not grounded in reason
