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DSST Ethics In America 2
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1. Duties to adopt certain ends - many are imperfect in that they do not specify how - when - or for whom they should be achieved
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
Doctrine of Virtue
Enchiridion
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
2. Disclosing information to outside sources without permission of the company regarding unethical practices
Immanuel Kant
categorical imperatives
Whistle blowing
natural virtues
3. When someone's work stands to serve an interest in conflict with his or her obligations as a professional
hypothetical imperatives
feminist ethics
paternalism
conflict of interest
4. Applied to determine on what basis scarce resources will be distributed or alternatively on what basis burdens will be distributed
Stage 3
distributive justice
justice
Thomas Hobbes
5. Prudence - courage - justice - temperance
Stoic philosphy
stoic moral virtues
Immanuel Kant
Jeremy Bentham
6. An action is morally obligatory if it produces the most good for the most people
St Thomas Aquinas
Conventional level
Act utilitarianism
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
7. Morality and religion are thought to come from a common source of inspiration and knowledge - a source that religion may refer to as God
seven features of pleasure
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
virtues
theonomy
8. 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
David Hume
Thomas Hobbes
Self-knowledge
St Thomas Aquinas
9. A contract or agreement between two parties to complete a task
covenant
Epictetus
Self-knowledge
Jeremy Bentham
10. Process by which patients are asked to consent to procedures after being sufficiently informed to make a rational decision
informed consent
Stoic philosphy
Aristotle
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
11. Divides moral philosophy into two domains - justice or law and ethics or virtue
Enchiridion
Immanuel Kant
Socrates
Aristotle
12. 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)
covenant
John Stuart Mill
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
David Hume
13. The idea of avoiding extremes - you shouldn't do anything to excess
stoic moral virtues
Stage 2
unconditional
Golden Mean
14. Name the first 5 books of the Old Testament
Professional Code of Ethics
human nature
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
primary purpose of the Leviathan
15. An agreement between two parties - but only one of the parties has to do something
unconditional
Professional Code of Ethics
Aristotle
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
16. Selfishness and lack of concern for other (contains first two stages of Kohlberg's hierarchy)
Virtue ethics
Pre-conventional level
The Books of Law
Consent Form
17. An attempt to revise - reformulate - or rethink traditional ethics to the extent it depreciates or devalues women's moral experience
Vices
Act utilitarianism
feminist ethics
paternalism
18. 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)
Puffery
Post conventional level
hypothetical imperatives
divine command theory
19. 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
disclosure of information
Courage
consequentialists
Epictetus
20. System of moral principles - affects how people make decisionss and lead their lives
Aristotle
Ethics
Happiness
Moral virtue
21. Disclosure of information - comprehension - voluntariness
The Gospels
Deontology
divine command theory
components of informed consent
22. Felt that ethics was born of human conflict
Socrates
Virtue
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
unconditional
23. Talks about who should get which benefits and which burdens
Plato
Ethics of care
normative ethics
distributive justice
24. Way of evaluating moral decisions based on the amount of pleasure that it provides
Utilitarianism
Virtue
informed consent
Doctrine of Right
25. Claim that all and only pleasure has worth or value and all and only pain has disvalue - happiness should be pursued
normative hedonism
Pre-conventional level
Virtue ethics
Doctrine of Virtue
26. Courage - magnanimity - ambition - friendship - generosity - fidelity - gratitude
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
Conventional level
Happiness
natural virtues
27. A generalized blueprint for the kind of entity you are
Pre-conventional level
primary purpose of the Leviathan
meta-ethics
human nature
28. Wrote the History of the Peloponnesian War
Stoic philosphy
Thucydides
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
Socrates
29. Egoism and exchange relationships - thinking is based on self-interest and how it can be achieved within relationships
theory of justice as fairness
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
Leviathan
Stage 2
30. The first 5 books of the Old Testament
Jeremy Bentham
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
Post conventional level
The Books of Law
31. 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
Kant
Act utilitarianism
normative ethics
divine command theory
32. Intensity - duration - certainty - propinquity (nearness) - fecundity - purity - extent
seven features of pleasure
Doctrine of Right
human nature
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
33. Plato believed the organization of the soul of a good person is similiar to this
consequentialists
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
rule utilitarianism
Act utilitarianism
34. The study of ends or final causes or purposes that things serve
Vices
Act utilitarianism
Stage 3
teleology
35. Explores when and how to compensate someone for a loss
rule utilitarianism
primary purpose of the Leviathan
corrective justice
nonconsequentialist normative theory
36. Rights and Justice - concerned mostly with justice - being an ideal ethical thinker needs you to distance yourself from a situation to assess it clearly
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
John Locke
teleology
Stage 6
37. Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness
Courage
Virtue
divine command theory
Standard of Happiness
38. 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
Thomas Hobbes
consequentialists
meta-ethics
corrective justice
39. A hierarchy that tracked how people can move from lesser to a more sophisticated ethical reasoning
40. Describes the ethical standards of a person - community - culture - etc. (controversial topics)
Kant
Deontology
Descriptive ethics
human nature
41. Things are morally good or bad - or morally obligatory - permissible - or prohibited - soley because of God's will or command
Golden Mean
social contract theory
Standard of Happiness
divine command theory
42. Consent is the basis of government - people have agreed to be ruled that governments are entitled to rule
Golden Mean
heteronomy
social contract theory
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
43. Live according to nature - according to rational principles which involve an emphasis on character and self-mastery - reason links all of society
hypothetical imperatives
Stoic philosphy
unconditional
autonomy
44. Social Contracts - think in terms of laws because of majority agreements
Act utilitarianism
Happiness
Deontologists
Stage 5
45. Making exagerated claims about products
human nature
Descriptive ethics
Puffery
Immanuel Kant
46. Talks about what punishments are appropriate for wrongdoing
Ignorance
Stage 4
Doctrine of Right
retributive justice
47. Includes a good habit - a mean - and a disposition to act within reason
Act utilitarianism
Epictetus
Conventional level
Virtue
48. Should a whole society be responsible for the actions of a few? What are the justifications of any actions against an enemy?
Ethics
Moral virtue
theonomy
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
49. Evidence of a valid consent
Immanuel Kant
Conventional level
Act utilitarianism
Consent Form
50. Lists seven features of pleasure to which attention must be paid in order to assess how great it is
hedonic calculus
covenant
Socrates
Standard of Happiness