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            CIVIL RIGHTS: Those rights that are determined by a particular state and its laws; constitutional rights, guaranteed by the law of the land.
             PSYCHOLOGICAL EGOISM: The thesis that people always act for their own self interest even when it seem their not. Ex. Giving to charity.
             UTILITARIANISM: The moral philosophy that say that we should act in such ways to make the greatest number of people happy as possible.
             ALTRUISM: The thesis that one ought act for the sake of the interest of others.
             AUTONOMY: Independence. Moral autonomy is the ability of every rational person to reach his or her moral conclusions about what is right and what is wrong.
             CULTURAL RELATIVISM: The descriptive thesis that different societies have different moralities. Most important that these moralities must be fundamentally different not just in details.
             ETHICAL ABSOLUTISM: The thesis that there is one and only one correct morality.
             ETHICAL EGOISM: The thesis that people act on their own interest.
             ETHICAL RELATIVISM: The thesis that different moralities should be considered equally correct even if they directly contradict each other.
             HEDONISM: The concept of the good life that takes pleasure to be the ultimate good.
             IMMORALIST: A person who rejects the ultimate claims of morality. Does not consider them absolute rules and claims that other considerations may override them.
             RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE: Eye for an eye.
             CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE: Government is only good for protection not to run the country.
             COMPATIBLISM: The thesis that both determinism and free action can be true. Determinism does not rule out free action and the possibility of free action does not require that determinism be false. They are compatible positions.
             SOFT DETERMINISM: A thesis that accepts determinism but claims that certain kinds of causes, namely, a person's character, still allow his or her actions "free." The soft determinist is therefore a compatibilist, for he believes in both freedom and determinism.


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