philosophy test three
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Mill | Utilitarianism |
| Karl Marx | economic and philosophical manuscripts. communism |
| Sartre | existentialism is a humanism. existentialism france |
| Fem ethics | feminism in ethics, marilyn friedman |
| psychological hedonism | act for sake of own pleasure, mill |
| consequentialism | that morality of an act should be based on its consequences. mill |
| based and rooted in consequentialist thought | utilitarianism |
| utilitarianism | promotion of pleasure, privation of pain |
| principle of utility | actions are right in proportion as they promote happiness and wrong as they produce the reverse of happiness |
| act vs rule | each act evaluated against principle of utility. or rules are established by principle of utility and acts are evaluated in reference to rules |
| alienation | the contradiction between humanity's existence and essence. things being together coming apart. clothes, cars producs |
| essence and existence | essence is to be free. our existence is that we are not free. chained to the machine of capitalism |
| existentialism | philosophy of human existence. existence precedes essence |
| two types of existentialism | christian and atheistic. kierkegaard(christian) Nietzsche (atheist) also sartre |
| sartre, two essential human characteristics that define our existence | freedom and responsibility. freedom to make choices, and we are responsible for the choices we make. responsible to others and ourselves. responsibility to make ourself. in choosing, creating a world for others |
| does the world have meaning for sartre | no, it is up to us to create meaning through choosing things worth pursuing. the things that we value help give rise to meaning in our life and to the world |
| Bad-faith | not acting in accordance to our freedom |
| traditional ethical theory | perpetuates a system of patriarchy. privileging of men and corresponding subordination of women |
| sex vs gender | sex:biological differences. gender: societal differences, |
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