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Eudaimonia

Ancient Greek concept of “happiness” or “flourishing” as the ultimate justification of ethical activity; usually explicated in terms of the exercise of (public) virtue as part of the overall fulfilment…
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December 6, 2023
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Ethics of care

A theory that emphasizes the moral significance of relationships and the virtue of care. https://youtube.com/shorts/HD9_m4ELYvU?feature=share
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December 6, 2023
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Ethics

1) The branch of philosophy that studies moral theories, beliefs, and practices. 2) From the Greek ethos, a custom or habit. 3) A set of rules, policies, or principles that…
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December 6, 2023
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Ethical relativism

The view that moral rightness and wrongness are relative to 1) the individual, 2) a givenculture, or 3) a historical period. https://youtube.com/shorts/BSGszt2VTaM?feature=share
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December 6, 2023
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Ethical egoism

The view that one should act in one’s self-interest. (See also Egoism.) https://youtube.com/shorts/RG61vMi5PYs?feature=share
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December 6, 2023
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Essence (or an essential property)

That without which something would not be what it is; a thing’s defining property, or that which makes something what it is, rather than something else. https://youtube.com/shorts/n3zkELR1lec?feature=share
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December 6, 2023
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Equivocation

An informal fallacy constituted by a shift in the meaning of a term from one instance to another, which prompts an erroneous inference. (See also Ambiguity.) https://youtube.com/shorts/m5W52MwGQvg?feature=share
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December 6, 2023
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E-proposition

A universal negative categorical claim that asserts the subject and predicate classes are mutually exclusive of each other—that is, the subject class is excluded from the predicate class and vice…
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December 6, 2023
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Equality

A social, political, governing, and philosophical principal that bars religion, race,sex, physical or mental abilities, wealth, social status, and so forth from being used as basesfor discrimination. https://youtube.com/shorts/YVZi0E0tf50?feature=share
Philosophy Student
December 6, 2023