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DSST Ethics In America 2
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1. Believed that morality consisted on acting on the basis of duty alone - the consequences of our actions are often out of our control
heteronomy
primary purpose of the Leviathan
Kant
Moral virtue
2. 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
disclosure of information
Natural Law Theory
Epictetus
Standard of Happiness
3. An american philosopher in the liberal tradition - had theory of justice as fairness
Utilitarianism
Deontologists
Ignorance
John Rawls
4. Founder of Liberalism - believed that everybody must be moved by a desire for his or her own happiness or pleasure.
John Locke
Moral virtue
conditional covenant
corrective justice
5. Explores when and how to compensate someone for a loss
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
seven features of pleasure
components of informed consent
corrective justice
6. Four basic possible standards: Full Disclosure Standard - Subjective Standard - Customary Practice or Professional Standard - Reasonable Person Standard
feminist ethics
Courage
Standards of disclosure
Whistle blowing
7. A generalized blueprint for the kind of entity you are
Pre-conventional level
Standards of disclosure
human nature
Stoic philosphy
8. Socrates believed that all wrong doing is a result of this
Ignorance
components of informed consent
Immanuel Kant
Consent Form
9. Practicality; help citizens orient themselves within their own social world; probe the limits of practicable political possibility; reconciliation
heteronomy
hypothetical imperatives
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
Deontology
10. Socrates believed that whatever action a man chooses is motivated for his desire for this
rule utilitarianism
Happiness
Ethics of care
Stage 3
11. God's device to govern the whole community of the universe towards the common good
Vices
John Rawls
components of informed consent
Eternal law
12. Disclosure of information - comprehension - voluntariness
components of informed consent
Moral virtue
Stage 3
categorical imperatives
13. Student of Socrates who suggested the good life is one of intelligence
Standards of disclosure
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
motivational hedonism
Plato
14. View holds that the good for which all humans aspire is happiness - which is the activity of the soul
Immanuel Kant
Happiness
Kant
Aristotle
15. Duties that form this subject matter are precise - owed to specifiable others - and can be legally enforced
Stoic philosphy
Professional Code of Ethics
Doctrine of Right
Vices
16. Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness
Golden Mean
meta-ethics
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
Standard of Happiness
17. Social Contracts - think in terms of laws because of majority agreements
Stage 5
John Rawls
Deontology
Eternal law
18. Evidence of a valid consent
Thucydides
seven features of pleasure
Consent Form
Virtue
19. The first 5 books of the Old Testament
feminist ethics
Doctrine of Right
Virtue ethics
The Books of Law
20. Talks about who should get which benefits and which burdens
distributive justice
artificial virtues
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
The 3 branches of ethics
21. 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)
Happiness
conflict of interest
Stage 6
Stage 4
22. Wrote the History of the Peloponnesian War
virtues
Ethics
Thucydides
Stage 3
23. There is moral significance in the fundamental elements of relationships and dependencies in human life (care-givers)
Professional Code of Ethics
Ethics of care
heteronomy
Pre-conventional level
24. When someone's work stands to serve an interest in conflict with his or her obligations as a professional
Post conventional level
Conventional level
Leviathan
conflict of interest
25. Evaluates people's actions and their moral character (it is concerned with the content of moral judgments or principles - rules - or theories that guide our actions and judgments - and the criteria for what is right or wrong- it argues for particular
Deontologists
primary purpose of the Leviathan
normative ethics
Courage
26. Hold that choices and/or acts or intentions are to be morally assessed solely by the states of affairs they bring about
Stage 2
Pre-conventional level
consequentialists
Thomas Hobbes
27. To punish subjects who break the law
unconditional
Immanuel Kant
Standards of disclosure
primary purpose of the Leviathan
28. Rights and Justice - concerned mostly with justice - being an ideal ethical thinker needs you to distance yourself from a situation to assess it clearly
consequentialists
distributive justice
St Thomas Aquinas
Stage 6
29. We always ought to perform that act that leads to the most pleasure
The 3 branches of ethics
meta-ethics
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
Self-knowledge
30. Applied to determine on what basis scarce resources will be distributed or alternatively on what basis burdens will be distributed
Deontology
Doctrine of Right
Socrates
justice
31. Guide of moral conduct based on the principles of Stoicism
Standard of Happiness
normative ethics
St Thomas Aquinas
Enchiridion
32. Self-mastery according to Kant
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
justice
Jeremy Bentham
Courage
33. Should a whole society be responsible for the actions of a few? What are the justifications of any actions against an enemy?
Stoic philosphy
teleology
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
hypothetical imperatives
34. According to Socrates this is the sufficient condition to the good life
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
John Locke
Self-knowledge
Puffery
35. Courage - magnanimity - ambition - friendship - generosity - fidelity - gratitude
consequentialists
natural virtues
nonconsequentialist normative theory
Happiness
36. Moral character - a theory of morality that makes virtue the central concern
distributive justice
hypothetical imperatives
John Stuart Mill
Virtue ethics
37. Fostering good interpersonal relationships - thinkers take the needs and interests of others into account - it is important to make others happy
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Stage 3
Pre-conventional level
The Gospels
38. A contract or agreement between two parties to complete a task
Vices
primary purpose of the Leviathan
Eternal law
covenant
39. 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
theory of justice as fairness
The 3 branches of ethics
paternalism
human nature
40. A hierarchy that tracked how people can move from lesser to a more sophisticated ethical reasoning
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41. Justice - promise-keeping - allegiance to legitimate government
distributive justice
artificial virtues
Stage 5
Puffery
42. Name the four authors of the Gospels
informed consent
hypothetical imperatives
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
virtues
43. 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
Thomas Hobbes
St Thomas Aquinas
justice
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
44. Genuin care for others (stages 3 and 4 of Kohlberg's hierarchy)
theonomy
Leviathan
Conventional level
components of informed consent
45. 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
Descriptive ethics
unconditional
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
46. Things are morally good or bad - or morally obligatory - permissible - or prohibited - soley because of God's will or command
divine command theory
conflict of interest
meta-ethics
categorical imperatives
47. Name the first 5 books of the Old Testament
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
Stage 6
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
Consent Form
48. Written by Hobbes - morality consists of Laws of Nature
rule utilitarianism
Doctrine of Virtue
Jeremy Bentham
Leviathan
49. Divides moral philosophy into two domains - justice or law and ethics or virtue
Standards of disclosure
Immanuel Kant
human nature
Puffery
50. The idea of avoiding extremes - you shouldn't do anything to excess
Happiness
Socrates
Golden Mean
Ignorance