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# Ethics & Philosophy

7 topics in Personal & Social Development, in the order they build on each other.

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- [What Makes an Argument Valid](https://lightmysky.com/learn/personal-and-social-development/what-makes-an-argument-valid-mt_W72nTJmeOI): An argument can be valid and still have a false conclusion, and it can reach a true conclusion by luck. Separating the shape of the reasoning from the truth of the parts is the first move in philosophy and in every argument after it.
- [Facts, Values and the Gap Between Them](https://lightmysky.com/learn/personal-and-social-development/facts-values-and-the-gap-between-them-mt_cvgg2UNDzv): No list of facts about the world adds up on its own to a claim about what should happen. Every moral argument therefore smuggles in a value somewhere, and finding where is the useful skill.
- [Consequences: The Greatest Good and Its Problems](https://lightmysky.com/learn/personal-and-social-development/consequences-the-greatest-good-and-its-problems-mt_XD8-rBho01): One family of moral theories says the right act is the one with the best results, counting everyone equally. It is used in every public health decision, and it also produces conclusions most people refuse to accept.
- [Duties and Rights: What You Owe Regardless of Outcome](https://lightmysky.com/learn/personal-and-social-development/duties-and-rights-what-you-owe-regardless-of-outcome-mt_Mwtr4NwfUE): A second family says some acts are forbidden whatever the results, because people are owed treatment they cannot be traded away from. This is where the language of rights, consent and dignity comes from.
- [Character: The Kind of Person You Are Becoming](https://lightmysky.com/learn/personal-and-social-development/character-the-kind-of-person-you-are-becoming-mt_7GCNpcZGku): A third family asks not what to do in this case but what habits make a life go well, an approach shared by Aristotle, Confucius and the Daoists. It handles the ordinary parts of a life that rules and calculations both miss.
- [Justice: Who Deserves What, and Why](https://lightmysky.com/learn/personal-and-social-development/justice-who-deserves-what-and-why-mt_umi3pKeHa1): Arguments about tax, inheritance, university places and healthcare are all arguments about what people are owed and on what grounds: need, effort, contribution, or simply being a person. Asking what rules you would pick without knowing your own position is one honest way in.
- [The Ethics of the Tools We Build](https://lightmysky.com/learn/personal-and-social-development/the-ethics-of-the-tools-we-build-mt_eZh-vIoluR): Systems that rank, predict and decide about people distribute harm without anyone choosing to harm anyone. Applied ethics is where the frameworks meet a specific technology and have to say something concrete.