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# What are moral values and where do they come from?   
 
# What are moral values and where do they come from?   
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# What kind of theory is a moral theory?
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# What is the evidence for seeing morality as a product of evolution?  
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# What are the major theoretical approaches to ethics from philosophers? What use are these theories?
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# To what extent does our psychology and identity explain our political orientation, moral beliefs, and behavior?
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# To what extent does our psychology and identity explain our political orientation, moral beliefs,and behavior?
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# To what extent is our morality determined by cultural processes?
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# To what extent is being moral about resisting our psychology and its biases vs. working with it and them?
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# How do we use morality to solve problems?
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# What is justice?
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# What are the major theoretical approaches to ethics from philosophers?  
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# What is political and moral difference?
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# What is justice? What do I owe strangers in my society and beyond?
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# How should I think about and interact with people who hold very different moral, political, or religious outlooks than I do?
 
 
# Are there limits to the partiality I should show to my family and friends?
 
# Are there limits to the partiality I should show to my family and friends?
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# Is empathy important for a moral person to cultivate?
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# Are there “basic liberties”?  How are they identified?  Is access to abortion services one of them?
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# Are we really as responsible for our behavior (including praise and blame behavior) as we think?
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# Should I cultivate empathy for others?
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# Do we have free will? Are we really as responsible for our behavior (including praise and blame behavior) as we think? 
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# How should we treat people who violate the law? Should we punish them retributively?

Latest revision as of 17:47, 16 January 2024

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  1. What are moral values and where do they come from?
  2. What is the evidence for seeing morality as a product of evolution?
  3. To what extent does our psychology and identity explain our political orientation, moral beliefs, and behavior?
  4. To what extent is our morality determined by cultural processes?
  5. How do we use morality to solve problems?
  6. What are the major theoretical approaches to ethics from philosophers?
  7. What is justice? What do I owe strangers in my society and beyond?
  8. Are there limits to the partiality I should show to my family and friends?
  9. Are there “basic liberties”? How are they identified? Is access to abortion services one of them?
  10. Should I cultivate empathy for others?
  11. Do we have free will? Are we really as responsible for our behavior (including praise and blame behavior) as we think?
  12. How should we treat people who violate the law? Should we punish them retributively?
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