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DSST Ethics In America 2
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1. Four basic possible standards: Full Disclosure Standard - Subjective Standard - Customary Practice or Professional Standard - Reasonable Person Standard
Self-knowledge
Standards of disclosure
Deontology
Thomas Hobbes
2. We always ought to perform that act that leads to the most pleasure
consequentialists
Courage
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
Stage 6
3. Name the first 5 books of the Old Testament
Stage 6
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
autonomy
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
4. Believe that right and good consist in obedience to objective moral duties
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
virtues
Deontologists
Doctrine of Virtue
5. Envisions a society of free citizens holding equal basic rights of cooperating within an egalitarian economic system
theory of justice as fairness
Virtue
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
Deontology
6. Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness
Deontologists
Standard of Happiness
Epictetus
corrective justice
7. 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
Enchiridion
Conventional level
primary purpose of the Leviathan
St Thomas Aquinas
8. Selfishness and lack of concern for other (contains first two stages of Kohlberg's hierarchy)
Descriptive ethics
Pre-conventional level
John Rawls
Post conventional level
9. Practicality; help citizens orient themselves within their own social world; probe the limits of practicable political possibility; reconciliation
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
consequentialists
Puffery
conditional covenant
10. The first 5 books of the Old Testament
conditional covenant
Natural Law Theory
The Books of Law
artificial virtues
11. Moral character - a theory of morality that makes virtue the central concern
Virtue ethics
The 3 branches of ethics
divine command theory
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
12. A contract or agreement between two parties to complete a task
Act utilitarianism
Aristotle
covenant
natural virtues
13. 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
Epictetus
Plato
paternalism
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
14. Bad character traits
Golden Mean
Vices
seven features of pleasure
teleology
15. The view that there exists an eternal moral law that can be discovered through reason by looking at the nature of humanity and society
Natural Law Theory
primary purpose of the Leviathan
Thucydides
feminist ethics
16. Disclosing relevant information regardng a medical diagnosis or treatment
disclosure of information
Self-knowledge
Stage 5
normative ethics
17. Making exagerated claims about products
Conventional level
Puffery
motivational hedonism
St Thomas Aquinas
18. Guide of moral conduct based on the principles of Stoicism
Doctrine of Right
theonomy
Enchiridion
divine command theory
19. The idea of avoiding extremes - you shouldn't do anything to excess
Golden Mean
natural virtues
theonomy
motivational hedonism
20. Believed that morality consisted on acting on the basis of duty alone - the consequences of our actions are often out of our control
Jeremy Bentham
The 3 branches of ethics
Kant
stoic moral virtues
21. An action is morally obligatory if it produces the most good for the most people
Act utilitarianism
theonomy
seven features of pleasure
John Rawls
22. Things are morally good or bad - or morally obligatory - permissible - or prohibited - soley because of God's will or command
Doctrine of Virtue
divine command theory
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Descriptive ethics
23. Founder of Liberalism - believed that everybody must be moved by a desire for his or her own happiness or pleasure.
normative ethics
John Locke
Conventional level
St Thomas Aquinas
24. Says we should always do the will of God
nonconsequentialist normative theory
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
components of informed consent
autonomy
25. Reliable habits you engrave into your identity
Whistle blowing
theory of justice as fairness
virtues
Thucydides
26. Disclosure of information - comprehension - voluntariness
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
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
components of informed consent
27. 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
Deontology
retributive justice
Epictetus
Kant
28. Courage - magnanimity - ambition - friendship - generosity - fidelity - gratitude
autonomy
categorical imperatives
natural virtues
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
29. Written by Hobbes - morality consists of Laws of Nature
Leviathan
Deontology
meta-ethics
justice
30. Set of rules that produces the greatest amount of good for the most people
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
rule utilitarianism
social contract theory
components of informed consent
31. An american philosopher in the liberal tradition - had theory of justice as fairness
Natural Law Theory
David Hume
John Rawls
Doctrine of Virtue
32. Describes the ethical standards of a person - community - culture - etc. (controversial topics)
Puffery
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
Descriptive ethics
paternalism
33. 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
nonconsequentialist normative theory
hypothetical imperatives
Thomas Hobbes
Happiness
34. A generalized blueprint for the kind of entity you are
justice
human nature
categorical imperatives
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
35. Rights and Justice - concerned mostly with justice - being an ideal ethical thinker needs you to distance yourself from a situation to assess it clearly
Stage 6
virtues
Stage 1
categorical imperatives
36. Evidence of a valid consent
teleology
unconditional
John Stuart Mill
Consent Form
37. Process by which patients are asked to consent to procedures after being sufficiently informed to make a rational decision
Enchiridion
St Thomas Aquinas
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
informed consent
38. Claims that humans are naturally self-interested and they are not naturally selfish or motivated by pride
Socrates
motivational hedonism
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Ethics of care
39. Ethical responsibilites at work - avoiding conflicts of interest
Eternal law
Professional Code of Ethics
distributive justice
Kant
40. Believed that moral justification came from utility and good institutions produce good consequences (Hedonistic Utilitarianism)
Happiness
Ethics of care
Jeremy Bentham
Courage
41. According to Socrates this is the sufficient condition to the good life
Self-knowledge
Utilitarianism
Ignorance
divine command theory
42. Socrates believed that all wrong doing is a result of this
hypothetical imperatives
Plato
Descriptive ethics
Ignorance
43. View holds that the good for which all humans aspire is happiness - which is the activity of the soul
Descriptive ethics
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
Aristotle
44. Prudence - courage - justice - temperance
categorical imperatives
stoic moral virtues
Eternal law
conditional covenant
45. Claim that only pleasure or pain motivate us - most significant form of psychological hedonism
motivational hedonism
Stage 5
Aristotle
theory of justice as fairness
46. Morality depends on religious belief or on a set of values given by a religion
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
Descriptive ethics
heteronomy
conflict of interest
47. 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)
Golden Mean
Kant
theonomy
John Stuart Mill
48. Self-mastery according to Kant
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Courage
seven features of pleasure
primary purpose of the Leviathan
49. Morality and religion are thought to come from a common source of inspiration and knowledge - a source that religion may refer to as God
paternalism
Virtue
theonomy
Jeremy Bentham
50. 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
hedonic calculus
Deontology
Stage 4