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Guide midterm exam 

• Sentimentalism, Hume:
  • “It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.”
  • Subjective and objective emotions
  • Moral sense theory
  • Neo-sentimentalism
  • Intuitionism
• Egoism:
  • Psychological Egosim
  •  two types ethical egoism: Universal and Individual
  •  Cultural relativism / Social relativism.
• Joseph Butler critique of egoism
• Kant’s morality. What is part of Kant’s morality and what is not part of Kant’s morality:
  • Maxim, Principles, reason, categorical imperatives, freedom, hypothetical arguments, ends, happiness, pleasure, emotions, incentives, will, duty
• How does Consequentialism work? Rule / act utilitarians. Bentham / Mill. Satisficing consequentialism. Critiques of Consequentialism.