Ethics Glossary


consequentialist ethics
an ethical system that values outcomes. It is difficult to use consequentialist ethics to judge individual actions, but they are useful for judging entire systems.
daedal
adj. intricateness and diversity, with overtones of inventiveness, aliveness, and complex self-interactions.
deontological ethics
an ethical system that values actions, rather than outcomes. Because it's difficult to determine outcomes, most social norms and laws are deontological.
ethical system
a set of guidelines for ranking the worth of something. A community may use different ethical systems to judge actions, goals, personalities, or even other ethical systems.
eudaedalism
an ethical system that values the continuation of rich and diverse Life on Earth as the highest good. ...more
idealism
a tendency to believe ones' ideas more than reality; generally favours particular lifestyle choices above practical matters such as survival or learning from the world
intercultural ethics
ethics about treating a group with a different ethical system. This branch of ethics has many grey areas and paradoxes — to what degree to you tolerate another group's intolerance of a third group? ...more
Life
Cora uses the word "Life" (capitalised) to refer to the total of all living systems on Earth, their history, and any future they have. This helps distinguish it from an individual life.
microdaedalism
Cora's Eudaedalism only counts time horizons beyond about 1-3 million years, whereas a microdaedalist ethical system would value timespans less than this.
nanodaedalism
an ethical system that places value on rich and diverse life in today's world.
phenomenological ethics
an ethical system that values a particular experience, such as happiness or beauty, as the highest good.
save the world
an ambiguous phrase, usually used in the context of preserving a particular way of life or making life more pleasant. ...more




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Cora, E. (2012, May 8). Ethics Glossary. chira.net/cora/ethics_glossary