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DSST Ethics In America 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
justice
Enchiridion
paternalism
normative ethics
2. Claim that only pleasure or pain motivate us - most significant form of psychological hedonism
Moral virtue
Standards of disclosure
motivational hedonism
Consent Form
3. An attempt to revise - reformulate - or rethink traditional ethics to the extent it depreciates or devalues women's moral experience
Virtue
nonconsequentialist normative theory
disclosure of information
feminist ethics
4. An agreement that is binding on both parties for its fulfillment
Self-knowledge
John Locke
conditional covenant
Stage 5
5. Set of rules that produces the greatest amount of good for the most people
Natural Law Theory
Courage
Stage 5
rule utilitarianism
6. The study of ends or final causes or purposes that things serve
social contract theory
teleology
normative hedonism
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
7. Egoism and exchange relationships - thinking is based on self-interest and how it can be achieved within relationships
Golden Mean
justice
Stage 2
Professional Code of Ethics
8. 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
John Stuart Mill
Virtue ethics
The 3 branches of ethics
9. Tell about the life and ministry of Jesus - in the New Testament
corrective justice
The Gospels
Puffery
Standards of disclosure
10. Talks about what punishments are appropriate for wrongdoing
distributive justice
retributive justice
Conventional level
theory of justice as fairness
11. Believe that right and good consist in obedience to objective moral duties
Deontologists
Stage 1
covenant
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
12. Rights and Justice - concerned mostly with justice - being an ideal ethical thinker needs you to distance yourself from a situation to assess it clearly
Natural Law Theory
Stage 6
Plato
teleology
13. 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
Happiness
retributive justice
Ethics
meta-ethics
14. Envisions a society of free citizens holding equal basic rights of cooperating within an egalitarian economic system
theory of justice as fairness
consequentialists
informed consent
John Stuart Mill
15. Disclosing information to outside sources without permission of the company regarding unethical practices
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
Whistle blowing
nonconsequentialist normative theory
Ethics of care
16. An agreement between two parties - but only one of the parties has to do something
feminist ethics
unconditional
Ethics
Eternal law
17. Punishment and reward - thinking is animalistic - actions are in ways that anticipate reward and avoid punishment
Virtue ethics
Stage 1
David Hume
teleology
18. 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
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
Deontology
autonomy
Leviathan
19. A hierarchy that tracked how people can move from lesser to a more sophisticated ethical reasoning
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20. Applied to determine on what basis scarce resources will be distributed or alternatively on what basis burdens will be distributed
justice
autonomy
Vices
covenant
21. Moral character - a theory of morality that makes virtue the central concern
Virtue ethics
rule utilitarianism
Pre-conventional level
seven features of pleasure
22. 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)
The Gospels
Post conventional level
rule utilitarianism
primary purpose of the Leviathan
23. Morality and religion are thought to come from a common source of inspiration and knowledge - a source that religion may refer to as God
consequentialists
theonomy
Courage
Stoic philosphy
24. Four basic possible standards: Full Disclosure Standard - Subjective Standard - Customary Practice or Professional Standard - Reasonable Person Standard
Standard of Happiness
Standards of disclosure
distributive justice
theonomy
25. 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
Ethics
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Stage 1
26. An action is morally obligatory if it produces the most good for the most people
Act utilitarianism
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
Virtue
social contract theory
27. Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness
Standard of Happiness
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Virtue
28. Making exagerated claims about products
Puffery
Stage 5
Doctrine of Right
Standard of Happiness
29. Reliable habits you engrave into your identity
virtues
categorical imperatives
Descriptive ethics
Post conventional level
30. System of moral principles - affects how people make decisionss and lead their lives
Ethics
teleology
Pre-conventional level
Stage 1
31. Should a whole society be responsible for the actions of a few? What are the justifications of any actions against an enemy?
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
Stage 5
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
32. Guide of moral conduct based on the principles of Stoicism
Enchiridion
informed consent
Immanuel Kant
divine command theory
33. Duties to adopt certain ends - many are imperfect in that they do not specify how - when - or for whom they should be achieved
John Stuart Mill
Doctrine of Virtue
The 3 branches of ethics
normative ethics
34. Describes the ethical standards of a person - community - culture - etc. (controversial topics)
Immanuel Kant
Ignorance
Stage 5
Descriptive ethics
35. Descriptive - normative - meta-ethics
Utilitarianism
retributive justice
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
The 3 branches of ethics
36. 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
corrective justice
Doctrine of Right
Post conventional level
St Thomas Aquinas
37. Divides moral philosophy into two domains - justice or law and ethics or virtue
Immanuel Kant
Ethics
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
hypothetical imperatives
38. Courage - magnanimity - ambition - friendship - generosity - fidelity - gratitude
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
Standards of disclosure
natural virtues
disclosure of information
39. Founder of Liberalism - believed that everybody must be moved by a desire for his or her own happiness or pleasure.
John Locke
Virtue ethics
Deontology
hedonic calculus
40. Competition over material good; general distrust; glory of powerful positions
Kant
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
John Locke
Immanuel Kant
41. Plato believed the organization of the soul of a good person is similiar to this
informed consent
feminist ethics
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
42. Explores when and how to compensate someone for a loss
Utilitarianism
corrective justice
Plato
divine command theory
43. Social Contracts - think in terms of laws because of majority agreements
normative ethics
Doctrine of Virtue
Stage 5
Doctrine of Right
44. Way of evaluating moral decisions based on the amount of pleasure that it provides
hypothetical imperatives
justice
Descriptive ethics
Utilitarianism
45. Tell you what to do in order to achieve a particular goal
Virtue
hypothetical imperatives
artificial virtues
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
46. Hold that choices and/or acts or intentions are to be morally assessed solely by the states of affairs they bring about
consequentialists
nonconsequentialist normative theory
theory of justice as fairness
Immanuel Kant
47. Ethical responsibilites at work - avoiding conflicts of interest
justice
Professional Code of Ethics
distributive justice
Immanuel Kant
48. Socrates believed that all wrong doing is a result of this
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
Stage 5
Ignorance
49. Three Aristotelian principles followed by Aquinas
John Rawls
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
Virtue ethics
theory of justice as fairness
50. 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
Natural Law Theory
hedonic calculus
Thomas Hobbes
normative hedonism