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DSST Ethics In America 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Duties that form this subject matter are precise - owed to specifiable others - and can be legally enforced
John Locke
Doctrine of Right
Natural Law Theory
feminist ethics
2. Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
Doctrine of Virtue
Stage 5
Standard of Happiness
3. 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
normative ethics
Self-knowledge
consequentialists
components of informed consent
4. Should a whole society be responsible for the actions of a few? What are the justifications of any actions against an enemy?
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
hypothetical imperatives
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
Ethics of care
5. Applied to determine on what basis scarce resources will be distributed or alternatively on what basis burdens will be distributed
normative hedonism
justice
Thomas Hobbes
motivational hedonism
6. Tell about the life and ministry of Jesus - in the New Testament
divine command theory
Virtue ethics
The Gospels
categorical imperatives
7. Student of Socrates who suggested the good life is one of intelligence
disclosure of information
Plato
Whistle blowing
Immanuel Kant
8. When someone's work stands to serve an interest in conflict with his or her obligations as a professional
Act utilitarianism
Vices
conflict of interest
Stage 2
9. Descriptive - normative - meta-ethics
human nature
unconditional
primary purpose of the Leviathan
The 3 branches of ethics
10. Self-mastery according to Kant
disclosure of information
Courage
Pre-conventional level
meta-ethics
11. Claim that only pleasure or pain motivate us - most significant form of psychological hedonism
Stoic philosphy
motivational hedonism
hypothetical imperatives
seven features of pleasure
12. Socrates believed that whatever action a man chooses is motivated for his desire for this
covenant
Happiness
seven features of pleasure
Deontologists
13. 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
Jeremy Bentham
natural virtues
St Thomas Aquinas
Pre-conventional level
14. Morality depends on religious belief or on a set of values given by a religion
disclosure of information
heteronomy
divine command theory
Utilitarianism
15. Hold that choices and/or acts or intentions are to be morally assessed solely by the states of affairs they bring about
John Rawls
consequentialists
covenant
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
16. Evidence of a valid consent
Enchiridion
nonconsequentialist normative theory
covenant
Consent Form
17. 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
Deontologists
Immanuel Kant
divine command theory
Epictetus
18. Tell us what to do irrespective of our desires
natural virtues
The Gospels
categorical imperatives
theonomy
19. Claim that all and only pleasure has worth or value and all and only pain has disvalue - happiness should be pursued
autonomy
motivational hedonism
normative hedonism
Act utilitarianism
20. 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)
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
conflict of interest
Stage 4
distributive justice
21. People think of their duties towards others in terms of abstract rules that transcend the particular cultures of historical situations that specific people find themselves in (stages 5 & 6 of Kohlberg's hierarchy)
Immanuel Kant
Post conventional level
hedonic calculus
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
22. Believed that morality consisted on acting on the basis of duty alone - the consequences of our actions are often out of our control
Leviathan
corrective justice
categorical imperatives
Kant
23. There is moral significance in the fundamental elements of relationships and dependencies in human life (care-givers)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
Kant
Ethics of care
24. Fostering good interpersonal relationships - thinkers take the needs and interests of others into account - it is important to make others happy
covenant
Immanuel Kant
motivational hedonism
Stage 3
25. Divides moral philosophy into two domains - justice or law and ethics or virtue
primary purpose of the Leviathan
Immanuel Kant
The 3 branches of ethics
Happiness
26. Set of rules that produces the greatest amount of good for the most people
Kant
John Locke
rule utilitarianism
Thucydides
27. Way of evaluating moral decisions based on the amount of pleasure that it provides
conditional covenant
Utilitarianism
Descriptive ethics
unconditional
28. Lists seven features of pleasure to which attention must be paid in order to assess how great it is
Consent Form
hedonic calculus
components of informed consent
nonconsequentialist normative theory
29. Talks about who should get which benefits and which burdens
Leviathan
distributive justice
nonconsequentialist normative theory
conflict of interest
30. Social Contracts - think in terms of laws because of majority agreements
Aristotle
Stage 5
stoic moral virtues
Jeremy Bentham
31. A contract or agreement between two parties to complete a task
Stage 3
social contract theory
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
covenant
32. An agreement between two parties - but only one of the parties has to do something
unconditional
The Books of Law
Conventional level
retributive justice
33. Describes the ethical standards of a person - community - culture - etc. (controversial topics)
Jeremy Bentham
Descriptive ethics
The 3 branches of ethics
Puffery
34. According to Socrates this is the sufficient condition to the good life
David Hume
covenant
Self-knowledge
Standard of Happiness
35. Intensity - duration - certainty - propinquity (nearness) - fecundity - purity - extent
seven features of pleasure
Virtue
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
Stage 1
36. Selfishness and lack of concern for other (contains first two stages of Kohlberg's hierarchy)
The 3 branches of ethics
Pre-conventional level
teleology
theonomy
37. Written by Hobbes - morality consists of Laws of Nature
Leviathan
justice
Ethics
Act utilitarianism
38. The view that there exists an eternal moral law that can be discovered through reason by looking at the nature of humanity and society
categorical imperatives
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
disclosure of information
Natural Law Theory
39. To punish subjects who break the law
justice
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
primary purpose of the Leviathan
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
40. A hierarchy that tracked how people can move from lesser to a more sophisticated ethical reasoning
41. A relative mean between extremes of excess and deficiency - ini general a life of moderation in all things except virtue
Moral virtue
Thucydides
theonomy
Natural Law Theory
42. Tell you what to do in order to achieve a particular goal
hypothetical imperatives
Consent Form
seven features of pleasure
Thomas Hobbes
43. The idea of avoiding extremes - you shouldn't do anything to excess
hedonic calculus
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
normative ethics
Golden Mean
44. Making exagerated claims about products
hypothetical imperatives
The Gospels
teleology
Puffery
45. Genuin care for others (stages 3 and 4 of Kohlberg's hierarchy)
nonconsequentialist normative theory
Conventional level
Consent Form
Stage 5
46. Guide of moral conduct based on the principles of Stoicism
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
Enchiridion
Eternal law
John Locke
47. Believe that right and good consist in obedience to objective moral duties
Deontologists
categorical imperatives
theory of justice as fairness
primary purpose of the Leviathan
48. This lays the groundwork for normative ethics - it deals with the nature of moral judgment. It looks at the origins of meaning of ethical principles. It studies the nature of morality and questions the abstract meaning of ethical terms
Golden Mean
informed consent
Natural Law Theory
meta-ethics
49. God's device to govern the whole community of the universe towards the common good
Virtue
corrective justice
Eternal law
rule utilitarianism
50. Believed that moral justification came from utility and good institutions produce good consequences (Hedonistic Utilitarianism)
Jeremy Bentham
Natural Law Theory
Pre-conventional level
Jean-Jacques Rousseau