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DSST Ethics In America 2
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1. Process by which patients are asked to consent to procedures after being sufficiently informed to make a rational decision
Thomas Hobbes
natural virtues
informed consent
Act utilitarianism
2. Disclosing information to outside sources without permission of the company regarding unethical practices
Plato
conflict of interest
Puffery
Whistle blowing
3. Disclosing relevant information regardng a medical diagnosis or treatment
theory of justice as fairness
Vices
Consent Form
disclosure of information
4. Morality depends on religious belief or on a set of values given by a religion
heteronomy
covenant
Stage 5
nonconsequentialist normative theory
5. Claims that humans are naturally self-interested and they are not naturally selfish or motivated by pride
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill
seven features of pleasure
Aristotle
6. Tell about the life and ministry of Jesus - in the New Testament
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
The Gospels
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
The 3 branches of ethics
7. Moral character - a theory of morality that makes virtue the central concern
Act utilitarianism
Kant
Virtue ethics
Stage 2
8. Lists seven features of pleasure to which attention must be paid in order to assess how great it is
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
Doctrine of Right
hedonic calculus
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
9. Descriptive - normative - meta-ethics
Enchiridion
theonomy
The 3 branches of ethics
Stage 2
10. A contract or agreement between two parties to complete a task
covenant
divine command theory
Eternal law
Puffery
11. Tell us what to do irrespective of our desires
Stage 4
Plato
Standard of Happiness
categorical imperatives
12. When someone's work stands to serve an interest in conflict with his or her obligations as a professional
Aristotle
hypothetical imperatives
Vices
conflict of interest
13. Duties to adopt certain ends - many are imperfect in that they do not specify how - when - or for whom they should be achieved
Puffery
Stoic philosphy
Doctrine of Virtue
Professional Code of Ethics
14. Competition over material good; general distrust; glory of powerful positions
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
Happiness
Stage 5
Natural Law Theory
15. Socrates believed that whatever action a man chooses is motivated for his desire for this
Happiness
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
conditional covenant
consequentialists
16. Intensity - duration - certainty - propinquity (nearness) - fecundity - purity - extent
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
seven features of pleasure
Doctrine of Right
Stage 6
17. According to Socrates this is the sufficient condition to the good life
Self-knowledge
natural virtues
Pre-conventional level
The Gospels
18. Practicality; help citizens orient themselves within their own social world; probe the limits of practicable political possibility; reconciliation
natural virtues
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
heteronomy
19. An action is morally obligatory if it produces the most good for the most people
Deontology
Act utilitarianism
David Hume
disclosure of information
20. Envisions a society of free citizens holding equal basic rights of cooperating within an egalitarian economic system
Virtue ethics
theory of justice as fairness
Golden Mean
categorical imperatives
21. Live according to nature - according to rational principles which involve an emphasis on character and self-mastery - reason links all of society
Puffery
Stage 6
Stoic philosphy
Doctrine of Right
22. Disclosure of information - comprehension - voluntariness
Puffery
components of informed consent
covenant
disclosure of information
23. Genuin care for others (stages 3 and 4 of Kohlberg's hierarchy)
St Thomas Aquinas
Conventional level
artificial virtues
David Hume
24. Socrates believed that all wrong doing is a result of this
Self-knowledge
Stage 4
conditional covenant
Ignorance
25. Bad character traits
Vices
feminist ethics
Stage 6
paternalism
26. The view that there exists an eternal moral law that can be discovered through reason by looking at the nature of humanity and society
corrective justice
Leviathan
Natural Law Theory
John Locke
27. To punish subjects who break the law
divine command theory
primary purpose of the Leviathan
Thucydides
Moral virtue
28. There is moral significance in the fundamental elements of relationships and dependencies in human life (care-givers)
primary purpose of the Leviathan
Standards of disclosure
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
Ethics of care
29. Name the four authors of the Gospels
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
natural virtues
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
30. 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
normative hedonism
social contract theory
David Hume
feminist ethics
31. System of moral principles - affects how people make decisionss and lead their lives
Ethics
Stage 4
teleology
virtues
32. An agreement between two parties - but only one of the parties has to do something
Thomas Hobbes
Courage
Eternal law
unconditional
33. Reliable habits you engrave into your identity
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
virtues
Stoic philosphy
Plato
34. Rights and Justice - concerned mostly with justice - being an ideal ethical thinker needs you to distance yourself from a situation to assess it clearly
unconditional
informed consent
Stage 6
teleology
35. Claim that only pleasure or pain motivate us - most significant form of psychological hedonism
motivational hedonism
retributive justice
Standard of Happiness
Epictetus
36. Prudence - courage - justice - temperance
disclosure of information
hypothetical imperatives
stoic moral virtues
Professional Code of Ethics
37. Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness
Standard of Happiness
meta-ethics
Virtue
Stage 2
38. 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
Thomas Hobbes
Epictetus
Stoic philosphy
Doctrine of Virtue
39. A relative mean between extremes of excess and deficiency - ini general a life of moderation in all things except virtue
John Rawls
Moral virtue
John Locke
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
40. The study of ends or final causes or purposes that things serve
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Vices
normative ethics
teleology
41. Morality and religion are thought to come from a common source of inspiration and knowledge - a source that religion may refer to as God
Stage 6
Self-knowledge
theonomy
meta-ethics
42. Student of Socrates who suggested the good life is one of intelligence
Enchiridion
distributive justice
Plato
hypothetical imperatives
43. Set of rules that produces the greatest amount of good for the most people
Descriptive ethics
hedonic calculus
rule utilitarianism
stoic moral virtues
44. Plato believed the organization of the soul of a good person is similiar to this
Stage 6
human nature
Ethics
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
45. God's device to govern the whole community of the universe towards the common good
Stage 1
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
Eternal law
consequentialists
46. 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)
Act utilitarianism
Post conventional level
conditional covenant
autonomy
47. Social Contracts - think in terms of laws because of majority agreements
Socrates
virtues
Stage 5
Eternal law
48. Hold that choices and/or acts or intentions are to be morally assessed solely by the states of affairs they bring about
consequentialists
Stage 1
feminist ethics
Post conventional level
49. 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
motivational hedonism
Ethics of care
Plato
St Thomas Aquinas
50. View holds that the good for which all humans aspire is happiness - which is the activity of the soul
Enchiridion
Aristotle
Epictetus
Socrates