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what does inherent and intrinsic mean?
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I need it for A Level Ethics but no definitions are making much sense.
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Inherent or intrinsic refers to a property being an essential defining characteristic of a thing. Give the specific example of the sentence if you want?
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(Original post by m2004)
like inherently right or saying that something is intrinsic
like inherently right or saying that something is intrinsic
Whereas a consequentialist ethical theory does not regard goodness/rightness as inherent to an action because such theories claim that it is the consequences of an action which make it good or bad, not the type of action.
For example, a deontologist would say 'lying is inherently wrong'. Whereas a consequentialist would say 'lying is not inherently/intrinsically wrong, it is only when it leads to bad consequences that it is wrong. If it leads to good consequences then the lying was good.'
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