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DSST Ethics In America 2

Subjects : dsst, civics
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The study of ends or final causes or purposes that things serve






2. Four basic possible standards: Full Disclosure Standard - Subjective Standard - Customary Practice or Professional Standard - Reasonable Person Standard






3. Tell us what to do irrespective of our desires






4. Includes a good habit - a mean - and a disposition to act within reason






5. The first 5 books of the Old Testament






6. Rights and Justice - concerned mostly with justice - being an ideal ethical thinker needs you to distance yourself from a situation to assess it clearly






7. Plato believed the organization of the soul of a good person is similiar to this






8. Duties to adopt certain ends - many are imperfect in that they do not specify how - when - or for whom they should be achieved






9. Egoism and exchange relationships - thinking is based on self-interest and how it can be achieved within relationships






10. A generalized blueprint for the kind of entity you are






11. Process by which patients are asked to consent to procedures after being sufficiently informed to make a rational decision






12. Founder of Liberalism - believed that everybody must be moved by a desire for his or her own happiness or pleasure.






13. Making exagerated claims about products






14. Talks about who should get which benefits and which burdens






15. Name the four authors of the Gospels






16. Socrates believed that all wrong doing is a result of this






17. Guide of moral conduct based on the principles of Stoicism






18. Set of rules that produces the greatest amount of good for the most people






19. Envisions a society of free citizens holding equal basic rights of cooperating within an egalitarian economic system






20. 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






21. Disclosing relevant information regardng a medical diagnosis or treatment






22. A relative mean between extremes of excess and deficiency - ini general a life of moderation in all things except virtue






23. Lists seven features of pleasure to which attention must be paid in order to assess how great it is






24. An american philosopher in the liberal tradition - had theory of justice as fairness






25. Believed that morality consisted on acting on the basis of duty alone - the consequences of our actions are often out of our control






26. 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






27. Morality depends on religious belief or on a set of values given by a religion






28. Student of Socrates who suggested the good life is one of intelligence






29. To punish subjects who break the law






30. Tell you what to do in order to achieve a particular goal






31. Practicality; help citizens orient themselves within their own social world; probe the limits of practicable political possibility; reconciliation






32. Tell about the life and ministry of Jesus - in the New Testament






33. Claim that all and only pleasure has worth or value and all and only pain has disvalue - happiness should be pursued






34. An attempt to revise - reformulate - or rethink traditional ethics to the extent it depreciates or devalues women's moral experience






35. Ethical responsibilites at work - avoiding conflicts of interest






36. Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness






37. Three Aristotelian principles followed by Aquinas






38. 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)






39. Intensity - duration - certainty - propinquity (nearness) - fecundity - purity - extent






40. Consent is the basis of government - people have agreed to be ruled that governments are entitled to rule






41. When someone's work stands to serve an interest in conflict with his or her obligations as a professional






42. Selfishness and lack of concern for other (contains first two stages of Kohlberg's hierarchy)






43. Descriptive - normative - meta-ethics






44. Justice - promise-keeping - allegiance to legitimate government






45. Evidence of a valid consent






46. Prudence - courage - justice - temperance






47. According to Socrates this is the sufficient condition to the good life






48. An action is morally obligatory if it produces the most good for the most people






49. Things are morally good or bad - or morally obligatory - permissible - or prohibited - soley because of God's will or command






50. There is moral significance in the fundamental elements of relationships and dependencies in human life (care-givers)