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DSST Ethics In America 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Courage - magnanimity - ambition - friendship - generosity - fidelity - gratitude
Act utilitarianism
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
Happiness
natural virtues
2. Describes the ethical standards of a person - community - culture - etc. (controversial topics)
Ethics of care
Golden Mean
Descriptive ethics
Happiness
3. Intensity - duration - certainty - propinquity (nearness) - fecundity - purity - extent
Moral virtue
seven features of pleasure
Consent Form
natural virtues
4. Genuin care for others (stages 3 and 4 of Kohlberg's hierarchy)
Immanuel Kant
normative hedonism
Conventional level
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
5. Live according to nature - according to rational principles which involve an emphasis on character and self-mastery - reason links all of society
conditional covenant
Natural Law Theory
justice
Stoic philosphy
6. Guide of moral conduct based on the principles of Stoicism
Stage 6
Enchiridion
Deontology
Puffery
7. Justice - promise-keeping - allegiance to legitimate government
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
artificial virtues
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
Stage 6
8. Advocates that moral values are relative to likely social consequences - we must act in a way as to help bring about the greatest good for the greatest number of people (Standard of Happiness)
John Stuart Mill
virtues
Act utilitarianism
primary purpose of the Leviathan
9. Four basic possible standards: Full Disclosure Standard - Subjective Standard - Customary Practice or Professional Standard - Reasonable Person Standard
teleology
meta-ethics
Standards of disclosure
human nature
10. Believed that morality consisted on acting on the basis of duty alone - the consequences of our actions are often out of our control
Epictetus
Kant
theonomy
stoic moral virtues
11. Humans pursue only their own self-interest; all people are equal; three natural causes of quarrel; natural condition of perpetual war; motivation for peace
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
Jeremy Bentham
Stage 2
disclosure of information
12. The first 5 books of the Old Testament
primary purpose of the Leviathan
unconditional
Puffery
The Books of Law
13. Lists seven features of pleasure to which attention must be paid in order to assess how great it is
Stage 6
Deontology
Pre-conventional level
hedonic calculus
14. Puts forth the notion of eternal law as the road map for ethics - the ultimate purpose of life was not happiness here on Earth but eternal bliss in the hereafter
Stoic philosphy
categorical imperatives
Standard of Happiness
St Thomas Aquinas
15. Talks about what punishments are appropriate for wrongdoing
conflict of interest
Enchiridion
retributive justice
Consent Form
16. System of moral principles - affects how people make decisionss and lead their lives
covenant
The Books of Law
Ethics
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
17. An action is morally obligatory if it produces the most good for the most people
autonomy
Act utilitarianism
hedonic calculus
natural virtues
18. Claim that all and only pleasure has worth or value and all and only pain has disvalue - happiness should be pursued
normative hedonism
Stage 5
informed consent
Standard of Happiness
19. Disclosing information to outside sources without permission of the company regarding unethical practices
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
covenant
Whistle blowing
disclosure of information
20. Envisions a society of free citizens holding equal basic rights of cooperating within an egalitarian economic system
consequentialists
Vices
theory of justice as fairness
unconditional
21. Moral character - a theory of morality that makes virtue the central concern
Doctrine of Right
Virtue ethics
Puffery
social contract theory
22. Competition over material good; general distrust; glory of powerful positions
rule utilitarianism
The Books of Law
Kant
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
23. Way of evaluating moral decisions based on the amount of pleasure that it provides
Utilitarianism
heteronomy
stoic moral virtues
categorical imperatives
24. We always ought to perform that act that leads to the most pleasure
Stage 4
Golden Mean
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
consequentialists
25. Interference of an individual with another person - against their will - and defended that the person interfered with will be better off or protected from harm
Pre-conventional level
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
paternalism
Post conventional level
26. Set of rules that produces the greatest amount of good for the most people
rule utilitarianism
Stage 1
Stage 5
Happiness
27. Duties that form this subject matter are precise - owed to specifiable others - and can be legally enforced
Enchiridion
Doctrine of Right
theonomy
Stage 6
28. Tell about the life and ministry of Jesus - in the New Testament
Whistle blowing
The Gospels
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
Professional Code of Ethics
29. Practicality; help citizens orient themselves within their own social world; probe the limits of practicable political possibility; reconciliation
covenant
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
feminist ethics
Jeremy Bentham
30. Respect for the rules of the group - focuses on what's necessary to promote the cohesiveness of society (ex: breaking the law is unethical behavior)
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
Stage 4
Stage 3
Deontologists
31. Socrates believed that all wrong doing is a result of this
theory of justice as fairness
Ignorance
hypothetical imperatives
The Books of Law
32. Punishment and reward - thinking is animalistic - actions are in ways that anticipate reward and avoid punishment
Enchiridion
Stage 1
artificial virtues
theonomy
33. Includes a good habit - a mean - and a disposition to act within reason
disclosure of information
Pre-conventional level
Virtue
Deontologists
34. Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness
John Rawls
Standard of Happiness
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
Ethics of care
35. Felt that ethics was born of human conflict
Thucydides
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
Socrates
36. Talks about who should get which benefits and which burdens
Stoic philosphy
distributive justice
divine command theory
Enchiridion
37. Ethical responsibilites at work - avoiding conflicts of interest
Thucydides
theory of justice as fairness
divine command theory
Professional Code of Ethics
38. Type of ethical theory which is concerned with moral rules which are generated by non-consequentialist methods - based in the nature of rationality or other principles of duty not consequences - theory of moral obligation
Ethics
Deontology
Self-knowledge
Kant
39. Disclosing relevant information regardng a medical diagnosis or treatment
Standard of Happiness
Epictetus
David Hume
disclosure of information
40. Believed that moral justification came from utility and good institutions produce good consequences (Hedonistic Utilitarianism)
seven features of pleasure
Jeremy Bentham
categorical imperatives
Kant
41. Tell you what to do in order to achieve a particular goal
theonomy
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
hypothetical imperatives
motivational hedonism
42. Social Contracts - think in terms of laws because of majority agreements
consequentialists
Stage 5
Standard of Happiness
Courage
43. Fostering good interpersonal relationships - thinkers take the needs and interests of others into account - it is important to make others happy
Stage 3
hypothetical imperatives
normative ethics
St Thomas Aquinas
44. Claims that humans are naturally self-interested and they are not naturally selfish or motivated by pride
Standards of disclosure
Leviathan
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
feminist ethics
45. A hierarchy that tracked how people can move from lesser to a more sophisticated ethical reasoning
46. Should a whole society be responsible for the actions of a few? What are the justifications of any actions against an enemy?
Moral virtue
Act utilitarianism
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
rule utilitarianism
47. Morality based on religion alone - without any reference to religious ideas
Kant
autonomy
Plato
Descriptive ethics
48. Self-mastery according to Kant
Stage 5
Courage
heteronomy
Professional Code of Ethics
49. Former slave who received an education in the doctrine of Stoic philosophy - believed ethical wisdom can be obtained by keeping a moral purpose in harmony with nature
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
Professional Code of Ethics
categorical imperatives
Epictetus
50. Applied to determine on what basis scarce resources will be distributed or alternatively on what basis burdens will be distributed
Stage 2
justice
Stoic philosphy
In nature - everything has a purpose; nature and its moral laws are knowable through common sense and reason; since every living thing has a nature that is appropriate to the kind of thing it is - failure to develop this nature to its fullest is an i