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DSST Ethics In America 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Set of rules that produces the greatest amount of good for the most people
rule utilitarianism
Standards of disclosure
Stage 4
Enchiridion
2. Self-mastery according to Kant
Stage 1
Thomas Hobbes
Courage
theory of justice as fairness
3. There is moral significance in the fundamental elements of relationships and dependencies in human life (care-givers)
Ethics of care
Aristotle
Plato
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
4. An american philosopher in the liberal tradition - had theory of justice as fairness
Kant
John Rawls
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
5. Believed that moral justification came from utility and good institutions produce good consequences (Hedonistic Utilitarianism)
Professional Code of Ethics
The Gospels
disclosure of information
Jeremy Bentham
6. Talks about who should get which benefits and which burdens
heteronomy
John Rawls
artificial virtues
distributive justice
7. Believe that right and good consist in obedience to objective moral duties
Deontologists
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 2
unconditional
8. 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)
Post conventional level
Descriptive ethics
Pre-conventional level
Professional Code of Ethics
9. Says we should always do the will of God
Stage 3
hypothetical imperatives
nonconsequentialist normative theory
social contract theory
10. Selfishness and lack of concern for other (contains first two stages of Kohlberg's hierarchy)
unconditional
Ethics
Standard of Happiness
Pre-conventional level
11. Three Aristotelian principles followed by Aquinas
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
Conventional level
The 3 branches of ethics
Happiness
12. Disclosing information to outside sources without permission of the company regarding unethical practices
Stage 4
Ethics of care
Ignorance
Whistle blowing
13. Consent is the basis of government - people have agreed to be ruled that governments are entitled to rule
stoic moral virtues
Pre-conventional level
Consent Form
social contract theory
14. Things are morally good or bad - or morally obligatory - permissible - or prohibited - soley because of God's will or command
informed consent
theonomy
divine command theory
Utilitarianism
15. Includes a good habit - a mean - and a disposition to act within reason
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
St Thomas Aquinas
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
Virtue
16. Claims that humans are naturally self-interested and they are not naturally selfish or motivated by pride
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
theonomy
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
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
17. Hold that choices and/or acts or intentions are to be morally assessed solely by the states of affairs they bring about
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
primary purpose of the Leviathan
natural virtues
consequentialists
18. Evidence of a valid consent
St Thomas Aquinas
Consent Form
conflict of interest
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
19. A relative mean between extremes of excess and deficiency - ini general a life of moderation in all things except virtue
Moral virtue
distributive justice
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
Socrates
20. Disclosure of information - comprehension - voluntariness
Jeremy Bentham
hedonic calculus
components of informed consent
Consent Form
21. Applied to determine on what basis scarce resources will be distributed or alternatively on what basis burdens will be distributed
Utilitarianism
normative hedonism
justice
autonomy
22. Morality depends on religious belief or on a set of values given by a religion
corrective justice
heteronomy
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
theory of justice as fairness
23. Tell us what to do irrespective of our desires
Enchiridion
Stage 1
categorical imperatives
conditional covenant
24. Claim that all and only pleasure has worth or value and all and only pain has disvalue - happiness should be pursued
corrective justice
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
normative hedonism
John Stuart Mill
25. Rights and Justice - concerned mostly with justice - being an ideal ethical thinker needs you to distance yourself from a situation to assess it clearly
Courage
Stage 6
Stage 2
Aristotle
26. Disclosing relevant information regardng a medical diagnosis or treatment
Self-knowledge
disclosure of information
virtues
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
27. Intensity - duration - certainty - propinquity (nearness) - fecundity - purity - extent
Enchiridion
corrective justice
seven features of pleasure
Jeremy Bentham
28. An agreement that is binding on both parties for its fulfillment
conditional covenant
conflict of interest
Post conventional level
Kant
29. An action is morally obligatory if it produces the most good for the most people
Act utilitarianism
Kant
Leviathan
Stage 1
30. Founder of Liberalism - believed that everybody must be moved by a desire for his or her own happiness or pleasure.
The Gospels
Whistle blowing
John Locke
virtues
31. Name the four authors of the Gospels
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
Deontology
Golden Mean
32. Explores when and how to compensate someone for a loss
corrective justice
Immanuel Kant
John Rawls
Jeremy Bentham
33. Describes the ethical standards of a person - community - culture - etc. (controversial topics)
Golden Mean
Descriptive ethics
Stage 1
Kant
34. Reliable habits you engrave into your identity
meta-ethics
virtues
Eternal law
Courage
35. We always ought to perform that act that leads to the most pleasure
Thomas Hobbes
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
Professional Code of Ethics
meta-ethics
36. Humans pursue only their own self-interest; all people are equal; three natural causes of quarrel; natural condition of perpetual war; motivation for peace
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
paternalism
Virtue ethics
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
37. An attempt to revise - reformulate - or rethink traditional ethics to the extent it depreciates or devalues women's moral experience
Post conventional level
Thucydides
feminist ethics
heteronomy
38. Envisions a society of free citizens holding equal basic rights of cooperating within an egalitarian economic system
St Thomas Aquinas
Socrates
theory of justice as fairness
Stage 4
39. 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
normative hedonism
St Thomas Aquinas
Ethics of care
categorical imperatives
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)
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
The 3 branches of ethics
John Stuart Mill
Eternal law
41. Should a whole society be responsible for the actions of a few? What are the justifications of any actions against an enemy?
Stoic philosphy
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
normative hedonism
The Books of Law
42. Justice - promise-keeping - allegiance to legitimate government
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
artificial virtues
Professional Code of Ethics
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
43. Believed that morality consisted on acting on the basis of duty alone - the consequences of our actions are often out of our control
heteronomy
Kant
The Gospels
hedonic calculus
44. Making exagerated claims about products
Ethics of care
Puffery
Doctrine of Virtue
David Hume
45. Wrote the History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
The Gospels
John Locke
Stage 4
46. Socrates believed that all wrong doing is a result of this
Ignorance
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
natural virtues
Deontology
47. Divides moral philosophy into two domains - justice or law and ethics or virtue
Ethics
Act utilitarianism
Immanuel Kant
Puffery
48. Guide of moral conduct based on the principles of Stoicism
Leviathan
Enchiridion
The Gospels
Jeremy Bentham
49. God's device to govern the whole community of the universe towards the common good
categorical imperatives
Epictetus
Whistle blowing
Eternal law
50. Written by Hobbes - morality consists of Laws of Nature
Leviathan
Ignorance
Utilitarianism
Deontology