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DSST Ethics In America 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Justice - promise-keeping - allegiance to legitimate government
John Locke
Golden Mean
Utilitarianism
artificial virtues
2. Talks about who should get which benefits and which burdens
Ethics
The Gospels
Golden Mean
distributive justice
3. 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
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
theonomy
divine command theory
paternalism
4. Socrates believed that whatever action a man chooses is motivated for his desire for this
Happiness
autonomy
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
Eternal law
5. Lists seven features of pleasure to which attention must be paid in order to assess how great it is
Ethics of care
autonomy
Doctrine of Right
hedonic calculus
6. 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)
David Hume
Stage 4
meta-ethics
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
7. Name the four authors of the Gospels
informed consent
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
Stage 4
teleology
8. Student of Socrates who suggested the good life is one of intelligence
Plato
The Gospels
Stage 1
Thucydides
9. Prudence - courage - justice - temperance
stoic moral virtues
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
Jeremy Bentham
normative ethics
10. Tell you what to do in order to achieve a particular goal
seven features of pleasure
Virtue
Kant
hypothetical imperatives
11. 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
stoic moral virtues
Deontology
paternalism
Consent Form
12. We always ought to perform that act that leads to the most pleasure
stoic moral virtues
Moral virtue
Standards of disclosure
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
13. Morality based on religion alone - without any reference to religious ideas
Jeremy Bentham
John Rawls
autonomy
Doctrine of Virtue
14. Divides moral philosophy into two domains - justice or law and ethics or virtue
primary purpose of the Leviathan
Immanuel Kant
Act utilitarianism
Stage 4
15. Morality depends on religious belief or on a set of values given by a religion
corrective justice
heteronomy
Act utilitarianism
hedonic calculus
16. Talks about what punishments are appropriate for wrongdoing
John Rawls
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
retributive justice
Utilitarianism
17. Claim that only pleasure or pain motivate us - most significant form of psychological hedonism
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
hedonic calculus
Pre-conventional level
18. Duties that form this subject matter are precise - owed to specifiable others - and can be legally enforced
Doctrine of Right
Vices
divine command theory
consequentialists
19. Tell us what to do irrespective of our desires
Stage 1
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
categorical imperatives
Plato
20. Disclosing information to outside sources without permission of the company regarding unethical practices
John Locke
Conventional level
Whistle blowing
divine command theory
21. Guide of moral conduct based on the principles of Stoicism
Enchiridion
Virtue
Stage 6
components of informed consent
22. Tell about the life and ministry of Jesus - in the New Testament
The Gospels
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
Virtue
human nature
23. Process by which patients are asked to consent to procedures after being sufficiently informed to make a rational decision
Virtue ethics
Vices
Plato
informed consent
24. A generalized blueprint for the kind of entity you are
unconditional
primary purpose of the Leviathan
Doctrine of Virtue
human nature
25. The first 5 books of the Old Testament
The Books of Law
corrective justice
justice
Standard of Happiness
26. The idea of avoiding extremes - you shouldn't do anything to excess
Deontologists
Golden Mean
conflict of interest
John Locke
27. 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
Pre-conventional level
Deontologists
justice
normative ethics
28. Disclosure of information - comprehension - voluntariness
components of informed consent
justice
Whistle blowing
conflict of interest
29. Claims that humans are naturally self-interested and they are not naturally selfish or motivated by pride
Kant
Standard of Happiness
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Ethics
30. Practicality; help citizens orient themselves within their own social world; probe the limits of practicable political possibility; reconciliation
conditional covenant
Ethics of care
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
covenant
31. Morality and religion are thought to come from a common source of inspiration and knowledge - a source that religion may refer to as God
The Gospels
theonomy
categorical imperatives
components of informed consent
32. 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
disclosure of information
Thomas Hobbes
Doctrine of Virtue
Jeremy Bentham
33. Applied to determine on what basis scarce resources will be distributed or alternatively on what basis burdens will be distributed
justice
hypothetical imperatives
retributive justice
David Hume
34. An agreement between two parties - but only one of the parties has to do something
justice
unconditional
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Self-knowledge
35. God's device to govern the whole community of the universe towards the common good
Eternal law
teleology
John Locke
Courage
36. 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)
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
Consent Form
Post conventional level
Kant
37. Four basic possible standards: Full Disclosure Standard - Subjective Standard - Customary Practice or Professional Standard - Reasonable Person Standard
Standards of disclosure
feminist ethics
Thomas Hobbes
virtues
38. Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness
Standard of Happiness
John Locke
Deontology
hypothetical imperatives
39. Envisions a society of free citizens holding equal basic rights of cooperating within an egalitarian economic system
retributive justice
Puffery
theory of justice as fairness
Happiness
40. 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
Post conventional level
Golden Mean
Happiness
41. Name the first 5 books of the Old Testament
rule utilitarianism
Epictetus
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
paternalism
42. Felt that ethics was born of human conflict
Whistle blowing
Socrates
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
justice
43. 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
Ethics of care
Deontology
Professional Code of Ethics
44. Genuin care for others (stages 3 and 4 of Kohlberg's hierarchy)
Conventional level
Moral virtue
distributive justice
paternalism
45. Believed that moral justification came from utility and good institutions produce good consequences (Hedonistic Utilitarianism)
Immanuel Kant
justice
Ethics of care
Jeremy Bentham
46. Egoism and exchange relationships - thinking is based on self-interest and how it can be achieved within relationships
Whistle blowing
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Stage 2
motivational hedonism
47. When someone's work stands to serve an interest in conflict with his or her obligations as a professional
conflict of interest
John Rawls
The Books of Law
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
48. Plato believed the organization of the soul of a good person is similiar to this
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
Leviathan
Thucydides
49. Live according to nature - according to rational principles which involve an emphasis on character and self-mastery - reason links all of society
informed consent
Stoic philosphy
Epictetus
natural virtues
50. Three Aristotelian principles followed by Aquinas
seven features of pleasure
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
Stoic philosphy
Virtue ethics