Vice and Virtues: Phillip Hallie: From Cruelty to Goodness – Flashcards
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institutionalized cruelty
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persistent pattern of humiliation that endures for years in a community, but the victimizer and victim find ways to downplay that any harm is being done.
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Predicates
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The part of a sentence that contains the action, tells what the subject is or does (verb) ex) -climbed- Bill climbed to the top of the rope.
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Unambiguous
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Clear; having only one possible meaning 2. absolute
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Unpretentious
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Characterized by a modest and natural manner; not prone to showing off
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Philosophizing
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Trying to explain a viewpoint 2. , to speculate or theorize, usually in a superficial or imprecise manner
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Etymology
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The study of the history of words, their words and their origins, how their meanings have changed over time.
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Quotidian Teasing
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Daily, recurring every 24 hours
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Excremental Assault
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attacking them by amercing them in their own excrement. An extreme form of dehumanization. Any Jew who managed to retain some human behavior in this case is a hero. No one could imagine the pain and suffering and these people managed to retain some dignity.
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Hierarchical Gap
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of, belonging to, or characteristics - Gap
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Esthetically
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adv. in a way that relates to beauty or appearance
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Efficacious
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(adj.) effective, producing results
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Succinctly
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expressed in few words; concise; tense
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Countenance
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Facial expression or face (n); approve or tolerate (v)
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Ascendancy
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Controlling influence; domination
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Dynamism
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An aspect of a speaker's credibility that reflects whether the speaker is perceived as energetic.
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Antonym
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A word that means the opposite of another word.
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Divine Command Theory
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Idea that something is right because God commands it, God commands it because it is right.
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Ethics
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Codes of conduct by which actions are judged as right or wrong, fair or unfair, honest or dishonest.
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Empirical facts
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Are data that can be verified by observation.
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Fundamental Question
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Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going? We find them in the sacred writings of Israel, the poetry of Homer, the tragedies of Euripides and Sophocles, in Plato and Aristotle.
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Positive injunctions
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Says what you should do.
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Cruelty
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To cause suffering.
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Negative Injunctions
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Thou Shalt Not.
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Morally Impermissible
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not permitted behavior (animal cruelty).
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obscure harmdoing
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Difficult to see, vague
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Moral Relativism
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Morality is not objective but rather reflective of the culture environment or circumstances.
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Gilded
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1870s - 1890s; time period looked good on the outside, despite the corrupt politics & growing gap between the rich & poor.
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Episodic Cruelty
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The victim knows he is being hurt and the victimizer know it too.
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antisemitism
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A mindset that people of Jewish heritage were inferior to other races; Prejudice against Jews.
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Moral Theory of Immanuel Utilitarianism+
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Virtuous
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having excellent morals, righteous, ethical, noble.
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Insidious
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(adj.) intended to deceive or entrap; sly, treacherous.
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constituted
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to establish, make or create.
