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Human nature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Human nature is the concept that there are a set of characteristics, including ways of thinking, feeling and acting, that all 'normal' human beings have in common. The branches of science associated ...
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Statement: All persons are free and equal and each has a right to life, health,liberty, possessions, and the product of his or her labour. ... Conflict: It is occasionally difficult to determine when one person's rights infringe on another person's rights. ... Back to first slide...
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Linked to Mackie¹s anti-realist meta-ethics (Inventing Right and Wrong) values are things we choose or create, not objective entities which we discover. ... 2. Look at deeper facts about human nature and human needs.
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In EN II.1, Aristotle claims that our nature (physis) is inadequate for moral virtue. We are not, he says, in the same relation to virtue as a stone falling to earth; moral excellence is neither by nature nor contrary to our nature but reached by habituation (cf. 1103a15-20).
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A brief introduction to utilitarianism, based on Practical Ethics by Singer. ... A utilitarian is someone who accepts the principle of utility - and is therefore concerned with maximising the value (utility) of the universe - which makes utilitarianism a consequentialist (goal-based) theory of ethics, as opposed to...
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Normative ethics takes on a more practical task, ... and perhaps other things are nonphysical in nature, such as thoughts, spirits, and gods. The metaphysical component of metaethics involves discovering specifically whether moral values are eternal truths that exist in a spirit-like realm, or simply human conventions.
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