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DSST Ethics In America 2
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1. Lists seven features of pleasure to which attention must be paid in order to assess how great it is
Conventional level
Utilitarianism
theonomy
hedonic calculus
2. Descriptive - normative - meta-ethics
Professional Code of Ethics
The 3 branches of ethics
Thucydides
Happiness
3. Felt that ethics was born of human conflict
The 3 branches of ethics
Utilitarianism
Plato
Socrates
4. Morality and religion are thought to come from a common source of inspiration and knowledge - a source that religion may refer to as God
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
theonomy
Virtue
Moral virtue
5. Envisions a society of free citizens holding equal basic rights of cooperating within an egalitarian economic system
Epictetus
Utilitarianism
theory of justice as fairness
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
6. Morality depends on religious belief or on a set of values given by a religion
heteronomy
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
Virtue
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
7. Rights and Justice - concerned mostly with justice - being an ideal ethical thinker needs you to distance yourself from a situation to assess it clearly
paternalism
John Stuart Mill
Stage 4
Stage 6
8. A generalized blueprint for the kind of entity you are
human nature
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
covenant
theory of justice as fairness
9. 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
unconditional
hedonic calculus
Enchiridion
10. 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
theonomy
Epictetus
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
The Gospels
11. Applied to determine on what basis scarce resources will be distributed or alternatively on what basis burdens will be distributed
Doctrine of Virtue
retributive justice
justice
primary purpose of the Leviathan
12. 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
Socrates
Thomas Hobbes
Doctrine of Virtue
normative ethics
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
St Thomas Aquinas
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
hypothetical imperatives
Virtue
14. God's device to govern the whole community of the universe towards the common good
paternalism
Enchiridion
John Rawls
Eternal law
15. Fostering good interpersonal relationships - thinkers take the needs and interests of others into account - it is important to make others happy
Aristotle
Stage 6
Plato
Stage 3
16. Talks about what punishments are appropriate for wrongdoing
Doctrine of Virtue
Thucydides
retributive justice
Leviathan
17. Socrates believed that all wrong doing is a result of this
Ignorance
artificial virtues
Leviathan
Virtue
18. Student of Socrates who suggested the good life is one of intelligence
hypothetical imperatives
Enchiridion
Act utilitarianism
Plato
19. Hold that choices and/or acts or intentions are to be morally assessed solely by the states of affairs they bring about
consequentialists
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
Moral virtue
nonconsequentialist normative theory
20. Believe that right and good consist in obedience to objective moral duties
Deontologists
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
Standard of Happiness
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
21. 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
social contract theory
disclosure of information
stoic moral virtues
Deontology
22. Live according to nature - according to rational principles which involve an emphasis on character and self-mastery - reason links all of society
Stage 6
Whistle blowing
Stoic philosphy
Thucydides
23. View holds that the good for which all humans aspire is happiness - which is the activity of the soul
Courage
feminist ethics
Aristotle
Epictetus
24. Ethical responsibilites at work - avoiding conflicts of interest
corrective justice
natural virtues
Professional Code of Ethics
disclosure of information
25. An agreement that is binding on both parties for its fulfillment
Stage 6
conditional covenant
Stage 1
natural virtues
26. Moral character - a theory of morality that makes virtue the central concern
retributive justice
Virtue ethics
Natural Law Theory
Moral virtue
27. Genuin care for others (stages 3 and 4 of Kohlberg's hierarchy)
Consent Form
Conventional level
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
Doctrine of Virtue
28. Humans pursue only their own self-interest; all people are equal; three natural causes of quarrel; natural condition of perpetual war; motivation for peace
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
distributive justice
Courage
Plato
29. An action is morally obligatory if it produces the most good for the most people
Self-knowledge
Act utilitarianism
normative ethics
Stage 2
30. Plato believed the organization of the soul of a good person is similiar to this
Ignorance
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
human nature
Stage 4
31. Includes a good habit - a mean - and a disposition to act within reason
Thucydides
Post conventional level
Leviathan
Virtue
32. Says we should always do the will of God
Standards of disclosure
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
St Thomas Aquinas
nonconsequentialist normative theory
33. Wrote the History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
Stage 3
autonomy
34. 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
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 4
Stage 1
35. Way of evaluating moral decisions based on the amount of pleasure that it provides
stoic moral virtues
Descriptive ethics
Utilitarianism
Conventional level
36. Things are morally good or bad - or morally obligatory - permissible - or prohibited - soley because of God's will or command
corrective justice
Epictetus
divine command theory
Ignorance
37. 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
Ethics
meta-ethics
retributive justice
Virtue ethics
38. Believed that morality consisted on acting on the basis of duty alone - the consequences of our actions are often out of our control
conditional covenant
Kant
Doctrine of Right
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
39. Justice - promise-keeping - allegiance to legitimate government
components of informed consent
primary purpose of the Leviathan
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
artificial virtues
40. 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)
Eternal law
divine command theory
Stage 4
teleology
41. Consent is the basis of government - people have agreed to be ruled that governments are entitled to rule
social contract theory
Stage 6
conditional covenant
Jeremy Bentham
42. An attempt to revise - reformulate - or rethink traditional ethics to the extent it depreciates or devalues women's moral experience
Natural Law Theory
feminist ethics
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
Happiness
43. Set of rules that produces the greatest amount of good for the most people
hypothetical imperatives
rule utilitarianism
Thucydides
Descriptive ethics
44. 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
Whistle blowing
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
Stage 4
normative ethics
45. Morality based on religion alone - without any reference to religious ideas
John Rawls
autonomy
normative hedonism
Kant
46. Written by Hobbes - morality consists of Laws of Nature
The Books of Law
Leviathan
autonomy
The 3 branches of ethics
47. Social Contracts - think in terms of laws because of majority agreements
Stage 2
Stage 5
Plato
Ethics of care
48. Claims that humans are naturally self-interested and they are not naturally selfish or motivated by pride
disclosure of information
The 3 branches of ethics
theonomy
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
49. Claim that all and only pleasure has worth or value and all and only pain has disvalue - happiness should be pursued
autonomy
Stage 4
distributive justice
normative hedonism
50. Making exagerated claims about products
Conventional level
Puffery
Kant
Socrates