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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 'Through reason we recognise the form of the good life''Human flourishing'/'Human excellence' 'Things are excellent that best fulfil their function' 'Human beings are social animals' |  Plato Virtue ethics |
| 'The state of nature' 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.' (describing life in the state of nature) 'An agreement for our mutual benefit' |  Thomas Hobbes Social contract theories of ethics |
| 'Act only according to a principle that you could will to become a universal law' 'The categorical imperative' 'Maxims confer specific duties' |  Immanuel Kant Deontological theories of ethics |
| 'Reason is the slave of the passions' 'It is not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.' 'Humean sympathies'; those sentiments that motivate us to pursue non-selfish ends. |  David Hume Sympathy-based accounts of ethics |
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