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Cordingley and Clarkson are sik guys.

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Kant wrote the categorical imperitive, 3 laws to live by. He also had a moral argument for god...

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Natural Law=Catholic+Christian;Aquinas=world shows gods purpose, reason shows us this;Primary precepts=WORLD

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Utilitarianism-greatest good for the greatest number through Bentham's hedonic calculus and Mill's-higher and lower pleasures

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Jeremy Bentham came up with the Hedonic Calculus to measure pleasure and pain

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Utilatarianism consists of both strong rule and weak rule.

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final cause-Aristotle used this to reach the purpose of something

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secondary precept-the rules that are developed from aquinas' 5 primary precepts

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objective- judgements are based on an impartial absolute value system!

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subjective- judgements are based on personal opinion and not on any fixed rules!

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Deontological-refers to an action that is inherently right or wrong, no account is taken of circumstances or outcome

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first formulation- universalistation- for an action to be morally valid

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absolutism-a rule that is true in all situations!!!!!

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teleological- concerned with the purpose or ultimate of something

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'act as a legislating member of the kingdom of ends' - everyone has the same rights.

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good will + duty = a moral action

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Natural Law, everyone has a natural sense 'that good is to be done and evil avoided' which some call human nature.

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5 primary precepts- the 5 basic principles of Aquinas' natural law

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Natural Law is based on observing the natural world. Every1 has a sense the 'good is to be done and evil avoided'. Some call this nature!!

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The categorical imperative is an action which is represnted as good itself. Kant broke it down into smaller rules called maxims