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The study of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.
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Deontological ethics
Philosophy; Political philosophy
Ethical theories according to which what I ought to do is whatever it is my moral duty to do.
Equivalence Thesis
Philosophy; Political philosophy
The idea that letting people die of starvation is as bad as killing them.
Analytic philosophy
Philosophy; Political philosophy
The predominant twentieth-century philosophical tradition in English-speaking countries; analytic philosophy has its roots in British empiricism and holds that analysis is the ...
Liberalism
Philosophy; Political philosophy
A political philosophy whose basic tenet is that each individual should have the maximum freedom consistent with the freedom of others.
Socialism
Philosophy; Political philosophy
The theory that communal ownership of land, capital, and he means of production is the best way of serving the common good.
Normative ethics
Philosophy; Political philosophy
A system of moral value judgments together with their justifications.
difference principle
Philosophy; Political philosophy
A central idea of John Rawls's theory of justice, referred to as the difference principle, is that inequalities in the distribution of relevant goods are just if and only if these ...
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