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6 theses in Ethics
The thesis claims that happiness—understood as overall balance of pleasure over pain or human flourishing—is the highest good and the ultimate purpose of life.
The thesis claims that people and institutions alive today owe moral duties to individuals who will exist in the future, especially regarding long‑term risks and sustainability.
The thesis claims that humans possess a natural disposition toward prosocial and morally good behavior that is at least as basic as selfishness. Current philosophical literature mentions human nature but provides no decisive empirical support for this specific claim.
The thesis claims that every rational agent possesses at least one decisive or sufficient reason to act morally, even when immoral actions seem advantageous. This links metaethical views about the existence of moral facts with practical reasoning about why rational beings should be moral.
Epicurus argues that death is not harmful to the person who dies because when death occurs the person no longer exists and thus cannot experience sensation. This supports the claim that we need not fear death. However, alternative views hold that death can be harmful by depriving a person of future goods, leaving the thesis underdetermined.
The thesis claims that some moral truths exist independently of any individual's or culture's beliefs, i.e., moral realism holds that objective moral facts are part of the world.
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