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DSST Ethics In America 2
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1. Should a whole society be responsible for the actions of a few? What are the justifications of any actions against an enemy?
artificial virtues
primary purpose of the Leviathan
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
Moral virtue
2. Talks about who should get which benefits and which burdens
distributive justice
Epictetus
Stage 3
John Stuart Mill
3. View holds that the good for which all humans aspire is happiness - which is the activity of the soul
motivational hedonism
Aristotle
The Books of Law
Ethics
4. The view that there exists an eternal moral law that can be discovered through reason by looking at the nature of humanity and society
Consent Form
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
Whistle blowing
Natural Law Theory
5. Rights and Justice - concerned mostly with justice - being an ideal ethical thinker needs you to distance yourself from a situation to assess it clearly
Stage 6
St Thomas Aquinas
Courage
artificial virtues
6. Ethical responsibilites at work - avoiding conflicts of interest
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
John Locke
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
Professional Code of Ethics
7. Claim that all and only pleasure has worth or value and all and only pain has disvalue - happiness should be pursued
seven features of pleasure
normative hedonism
consequentialists
Professional Code of Ethics
8. Talks about what punishments are appropriate for wrongdoing
retributive justice
Descriptive ethics
artificial virtues
nonconsequentialist normative theory
9. 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)
Immanuel Kant
Post conventional level
social contract theory
divine command theory
10. We always ought to perform that act that leads to the most pleasure
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
consequentialists
covenant
autonomy
11. Includes a good habit - a mean - and a disposition to act within reason
Epictetus
Descriptive ethics
Virtue
Doctrine of Right
12. Tell about the life and ministry of Jesus - in the New Testament
The Gospels
Golden Mean
Immanuel Kant
autonomy
13. 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
meta-ethics
Thomas Hobbes
Doctrine of Right
Stage 6
14. Tell us what to do irrespective of our desires
Enchiridion
Vices
categorical imperatives
Doctrine of Right
15. There is moral significance in the fundamental elements of relationships and dependencies in human life (care-givers)
Ethics of care
conflict of interest
human nature
Happiness
16. 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
Ethics
Standard of Happiness
St Thomas Aquinas
Stage 1
17. Describes the ethical standards of a person - community - culture - etc. (controversial topics)
Descriptive ethics
John Stuart Mill
The Books of Law
Thomas Hobbes
18. An agreement that is binding on both parties for its fulfillment
Ethics of care
Stage 5
corrective justice
conditional covenant
19. An action is morally obligatory if it produces the most good for the most people
Act utilitarianism
Jeremy Bentham
artificial virtues
Aristotle
20. Disclosure of information - comprehension - voluntariness
Deontologists
natural virtues
Natural Law Theory
components of informed consent
21. An attempt to revise - reformulate - or rethink traditional ethics to the extent it depreciates or devalues women's moral experience
stoic moral virtues
feminist ethics
autonomy
justice
22. Selfishness and lack of concern for other (contains first two stages of Kohlberg's hierarchy)
Pre-conventional level
Epictetus
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
divine command theory
23. 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)
Stage 2
feminist ethics
Stage 4
disclosure of information
24. Fostering good interpersonal relationships - thinkers take the needs and interests of others into account - it is important to make others happy
Deontologists
Enchiridion
Stage 3
Kant
25. Explores when and how to compensate someone for a loss
Self-knowledge
corrective justice
Virtue
Stage 2
26. Claim that only pleasure or pain motivate us - most significant form of psychological hedonism
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
motivational hedonism
Puffery
27. Bad character traits
Descriptive ethics
hedonic calculus
Vices
Self-knowledge
28. Competition over material good; general distrust; glory of powerful positions
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
normative ethics
justice
29. Descriptive - normative - meta-ethics
virtues
Stoic philosphy
teleology
The 3 branches of ethics
30. Duties to adopt certain ends - many are imperfect in that they do not specify how - when - or for whom they should be achieved
Jeremy Bentham
Ethics
Doctrine of Virtue
theonomy
31. Socrates believed that all wrong doing is a result of this
Epictetus
Ignorance
Post conventional level
nonconsequentialist normative theory
32. Justice - promise-keeping - allegiance to legitimate government
Self-knowledge
Natural Law Theory
St Thomas Aquinas
artificial virtues
33. Guide of moral conduct based on the principles of Stoicism
hedonic calculus
Doctrine of Right
human nature
Enchiridion
34. Social Contracts - think in terms of laws because of majority agreements
Self-knowledge
primary purpose of the Leviathan
autonomy
Stage 5
35. 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
Moral virtue
Whistle blowing
paternalism
Socrates
36. Believed that morality consisted on acting on the basis of duty alone - the consequences of our actions are often out of our control
Kant
Act utilitarianism
natural virtues
social contract theory
37. The study of ends or final causes or purposes that things serve
teleology
social contract theory
Enchiridion
consequentialists
38. System of moral principles - affects how people make decisionss and lead their lives
Ethics
nonconsequentialist normative theory
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
categorical imperatives
39. A generalized blueprint for the kind of entity you are
Virtue ethics
Plato
Ignorance
human nature
40. Wrote the History of the Peloponnesian War
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
Thucydides
covenant
Pre-conventional level
41. Lists seven features of pleasure to which attention must be paid in order to assess how great it is
normative ethics
hedonic calculus
Stage 4
Golden Mean
42. The first 5 books of the Old Testament
The Books of Law
Ethics
Immanuel Kant
Deontologists
43. Morality based on religion alone - without any reference to religious ideas
Puffery
stoic moral virtues
autonomy
meta-ethics
44. Disclosing information to outside sources without permission of the company regarding unethical practices
Whistle blowing
human nature
distributive justice
motivational hedonism
45. Applied to determine on what basis scarce resources will be distributed or alternatively on what basis burdens will be distributed
Doctrine of Virtue
justice
Consent Form
Jeremy Bentham
46. Name the first 5 books of the Old Testament
Deontology
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
paternalism
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
47. Moral character - a theory of morality that makes virtue the central concern
Virtue ethics
primary purpose of the Leviathan
Vices
Stage 3
48. Student of Socrates who suggested the good life is one of intelligence
Courage
Ethics
Plato
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
49. Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness
hedonic calculus
Leviathan
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
Standard of Happiness
50. Humans pursue only their own self-interest; all people are equal; three natural causes of quarrel; natural condition of perpetual war; motivation for peace
The Gospels
Eternal law
Immanuel Kant
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
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