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Ethics in America help - airforceone1 - 04-23-2011
hey everyone, i am taking my first CLEP on Monday and i fear that i have not grasped this material well enough to pass the exam. I just feel like the study guides throw soo much information out on all these philosophers and philosophies that i cant organize it all to remember. Does anyone have any suggestions or tips that helped them out in this exam? Anything would be very greatly appreciated!
Ethics in America help - Mian - 04-24-2011
I find that writing outlines with the major points as headings and short descriptions underneath help me to organize information and committ it to memory. It's especially useful for things I have little interest in but need to remember for an exam. Good luck!
Ethics in America help - airforceone1 - 04-24-2011
I will sure give that a shot, i really appreciate you input and thanks again!
Ethics in America help - clep3705 - 05-07-2011
I mistakenly posted this to the military forum instead of the general forum.
These links should help you focus on the philosophers and topics in the official study guide. Comments from people who took the test were also used to make the list of links. You don't need to read all of each Wikipedia page (although it wouldn't take excessiely long). Read the first few paragraphs and skim over the rest of each page.
Jeremy Bentham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Nozick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Adam Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Stuart Mill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stoicism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Locke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Deontological ethics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Immanuel Kant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ethics of care - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia feminist ethics, Carol Gilligan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lawrence Kohlberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kohlberg's stages of moral development - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Consequentialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism_(Ayn_Rand) Ayn Rand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia man should act in his own self-interest; man is entitled to his own happiness; do not sacrifice self to make others happy; immoral to place another above oneself; love virtues, love only the virtuous who have earned it YouTube - Ayn Rand Mike Wallace Interview 1959 part 1 YouTube - Ayn Rand Mike Wallace Interview 1959 part 2
Utilitarianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Utilitarian Theory
⢠The utilitarian principle is traditionally expressed: Always act to produce the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people defined by various thinkers as happiness or pleasure (versus sadness or pain)
⢠Form of consequentialism
⢠credited to Jeremy Bentham. Bentham found pain and pleasure to be the only intrinsic values in the world
⢠Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill are considered the two greatest utilitarians; these British philosophers, writing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, developed utilitarian theory and are typically associated with act-utilitarianism
⢠Bentham proposes a calculus of utility
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o Act-utilitarianism
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⢠act-utilitarianism which directs us to determine our moral obligations by considering the consequences of each act
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o Rule-utilitarianism
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⢠Rule utilitarianism is based primarily on one assumption. The assumption that in order for a society to function, its citizens must all obey a universal set of laws
Idealism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sophism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Protagoras - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Socrates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Plato - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Allegory of the Cave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_(Plato)
Aristotle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thucydides - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia wrote about the Peloponnesian War
Epicurus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Epicureanism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Epictetus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas Hobbes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nirvana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Karma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dharma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ahimsa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas Aquinas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Rawls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclitus
Pythagoras - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Transcendental idealism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nel Noddings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Josiah Royce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ethics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocity_(social_and_political_philosophy)
Confucianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aldo Leopold - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia land ethic
Belmont Report - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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