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DSST Ethics In America 2
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1. Believes that all acts are ultimately self-serving - even when they seem benevolent - that in a state of nature - prior to any formation of government - humans would behave completely selfishly
Thomas Hobbes
Plato
retributive justice
Kant
2. Maintains that moral values are relative to our natural human feelings and the urgent needs real situations - our ction should be guided by our feeling good about ourselves while promoting social well-being. Experiences of morality drawn from peoples
David Hume
rule utilitarianism
Happiness
divine command theory
3. An agreement between two parties - but only one of the parties has to do something
distributive justice
unconditional
hypothetical imperatives
The Gospels
4. System of moral principles - affects how people make decisionss and lead their lives
Stage 1
Conventional level
Ethics
covenant
5. 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
meta-ethics
heteronomy
Utilitarianism
St Thomas Aquinas
6. Explores when and how to compensate someone for a loss
unconditional
corrective justice
Puffery
normative ethics
7. Name the four authors of the Gospels
covenant
Golden Mean
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
unconditional
8. Written by Hobbes - morality consists of Laws of Nature
artificial virtues
Stage 2
Leviathan
Post conventional level
9. Claim that only pleasure or pain motivate us - most significant form of psychological hedonism
Golden Mean
Courage
motivational hedonism
Happiness
10. Describes the ethical standards of a person - community - culture - etc. (controversial topics)
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
Leviathan
Descriptive ethics
Pre-conventional level
11. Disclosing information to outside sources without permission of the company regarding unethical practices
unconditional
Whistle blowing
social contract theory
Eternal law
12. The idea of avoiding extremes - you shouldn't do anything to excess
Stage 5
Virtue
Professional Code of Ethics
Golden Mean
13. Believed that moral justification came from utility and good institutions produce good consequences (Hedonistic Utilitarianism)
heteronomy
Jeremy Bentham
Ethics
Courage
14. Morality based on religion alone - without any reference to religious ideas
John Rawls
St Thomas Aquinas
unconditional
autonomy
15. The study of ends or final causes or purposes that things serve
nonconsequentialist normative theory
teleology
Stoic philosphy
meta-ethics
16. Selfishness and lack of concern for other (contains first two stages of Kohlberg's hierarchy)
Act utilitarianism
human nature
Pre-conventional level
Whistle blowing
17. God's device to govern the whole community of the universe towards the common good
Professional Code of Ethics
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
Eternal law
The Books of Law
18. Hold that choices and/or acts or intentions are to be morally assessed solely by the states of affairs they bring about
Thucydides
consequentialists
Doctrine of Right
Doctrine of Virtue
19. When someone's work stands to serve an interest in conflict with his or her obligations as a professional
justice
Stage 1
conflict of interest
consequentialists
20. Egoism and exchange relationships - thinking is based on self-interest and how it can be achieved within relationships
John Locke
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
Stoic philosphy
Stage 2
21. Fostering good interpersonal relationships - thinkers take the needs and interests of others into account - it is important to make others happy
Stage 3
Ignorance
The 3 branches of ethics
normative ethics
22. Tell us what to do irrespective of our desires
normative hedonism
Stage 5
categorical imperatives
Plato
23. Socrates believed that all wrong doing is a result of this
Ignorance
theonomy
Moral virtue
conditional covenant
24. Set of rules that produces the greatest amount of good for the most people
rule utilitarianism
primary purpose of the Leviathan
hedonic calculus
Self-knowledge
25. Descriptive - normative - meta-ethics
Stage 6
retributive justice
Kant
The 3 branches of ethics
26. Competition over material good; general distrust; glory of powerful positions
Stage 6
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
Whistle blowing
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
27. 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
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
John Locke
28. Student of Socrates who suggested the good life is one of intelligence
Plato
human nature
motivational hedonism
Leviathan
29. Intensity - duration - certainty - propinquity (nearness) - fecundity - purity - extent
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
Doctrine of Right
meta-ethics
seven features of pleasure
30. Name the first 5 books of the Old Testament
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
hedonic calculus
teleology
informed consent
31. Socrates believed that whatever action a man chooses is motivated for his desire for this
Happiness
Standard of Happiness
components of informed consent
autonomy
32. Bad character traits
meta-ethics
Virtue
Vices
The Gospels
33. Felt that ethics was born of human conflict
Stoic philosphy
Virtue
divine command theory
Socrates
34. Moral character - a theory of morality that makes virtue the central concern
justice
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
Virtue ethics
Utilitarianism
35. Morality and religion are thought to come from a common source of inspiration and knowledge - a source that religion may refer to as God
divine command theory
theonomy
distributive justice
Stage 1
36. Process by which patients are asked to consent to procedures after being sufficiently informed to make a rational decision
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
informed consent
Enchiridion
Consent Form
37. An attempt to revise - reformulate - or rethink traditional ethics to the extent it depreciates or devalues women's moral experience
unconditional
Immanuel Kant
Vices
feminist ethics
38. An action is morally obligatory if it produces the most good for the most people
disclosure of information
virtues
Consent Form
Act utilitarianism
39. A hierarchy that tracked how people can move from lesser to a more sophisticated ethical reasoning
40. A relative mean between extremes of excess and deficiency - ini general a life of moderation in all things except virtue
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
Moral virtue
social contract theory
The Gospels
41. Evidence of a valid consent
Professional Code of Ethics
Descriptive ethics
Doctrine of Virtue
Consent Form
42. Four basic possible standards: Full Disclosure Standard - Subjective Standard - Customary Practice or Professional Standard - Reasonable Person Standard
rule utilitarianism
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Standards of disclosure
Immanuel Kant
43. Includes a good habit - a mean - and a disposition to act within reason
Virtue
John Locke
human nature
informed consent
44. Plato believed the organization of the soul of a good person is similiar to this
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
covenant
conditional covenant
45. Social Contracts - think in terms of laws because of majority agreements
Consent Form
Stage 5
John Locke
Aristotle
46. Divides moral philosophy into two domains - justice or law and ethics or virtue
Immanuel Kant
Leviathan
heteronomy
Professional Code of Ethics
47. A generalized blueprint for the kind of entity you are
Eternal law
human nature
John Locke
feminist ethics
48. 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)
Moral virtue
Stage 4
Standards of disclosure
Utilitarianism
49. Self-mastery according to Kant
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
artificial virtues
Courage
conditional covenant
50. Talks about who should get which benefits and which burdens
distributive justice
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
theonomy
Stage 5