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DSST Ethics In America 2
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1. Envisions a society of free citizens holding equal basic rights of cooperating within an egalitarian economic system
theory of justice as fairness
Natural Law Theory
feminist ethics
Ethics of care
2. Way of evaluating moral decisions based on the amount of pleasure that it provides
Descriptive ethics
Utilitarianism
Thucydides
Enchiridion
3. Making exagerated claims about products
Epictetus
Puffery
Ethics
virtues
4. Competition over material good; general distrust; glory of powerful positions
John Rawls
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
retributive justice
Immanuel Kant
5. Reliable habits you engrave into your identity
Stage 6
Eternal law
Post conventional level
virtues
6. 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)
The 3 branches of ethics
virtues
Stage 4
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
7. Believe that right and good consist in obedience to objective moral duties
Thucydides
normative hedonism
justice
Deontologists
8. Talks about who should get which benefits and which burdens
Consent Form
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
distributive justice
Act utilitarianism
9. Live according to nature - according to rational principles which involve an emphasis on character and self-mastery - reason links all of society
stoic moral virtues
Act utilitarianism
Stoic philosphy
Descriptive ethics
10. Three Aristotelian principles followed by Aquinas
Jeremy Bentham
Consent Form
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
Ignorance
11. Includes a good habit - a mean - and a disposition to act within reason
categorical imperatives
feminist ethics
Socrates
Virtue
12. Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness
Standards of disclosure
Standard of Happiness
Conventional level
hypothetical imperatives
13. There is moral significance in the fundamental elements of relationships and dependencies in human life (care-givers)
disclosure of information
Ethics of care
Descriptive ethics
Stage 3
14. Moral character - a theory of morality that makes virtue the central concern
Immanuel Kant
John Locke
Virtue ethics
Doctrine of Right
15. 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
Standards of disclosure
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
normative ethics
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
16. Name the first 5 books of the Old Testament
Deontologists
consequentialists
artificial virtues
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
17. Fostering good interpersonal relationships - thinkers take the needs and interests of others into account - it is important to make others happy
Plato
natural virtues
Stage 3
informed consent
18. Tell you what to do in order to achieve a particular goal
heteronomy
hypothetical imperatives
nonconsequentialist normative theory
motivational hedonism
19. Socrates believed that whatever action a man chooses is motivated for his desire for this
Happiness
St Thomas Aquinas
paternalism
Professional Code of Ethics
20. The study of ends or final causes or purposes that things serve
stoic moral virtues
teleology
Standards of disclosure
Ethics
21. We always ought to perform that act that leads to the most pleasure
stoic moral virtues
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
Self-knowledge
unconditional
22. A relative mean between extremes of excess and deficiency - ini general a life of moderation in all things except virtue
John Locke
Moral virtue
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
covenant
23. 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
covenant
hedonic calculus
John Locke
24. Tell us what to do irrespective of our desires
distributive justice
categorical imperatives
normative ethics
Courage
25. A hierarchy that tracked how people can move from lesser to a more sophisticated ethical reasoning
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26. Believed that moral justification came from utility and good institutions produce good consequences (Hedonistic Utilitarianism)
Courage
theory of justice as fairness
Jeremy Bentham
categorical imperatives
27. A generalized blueprint for the kind of entity you are
Eternal law
human nature
social contract theory
Ethics
28. According to Socrates this is the sufficient condition to the good life
Jeremy Bentham
Self-knowledge
Stage 1
Virtue ethics
29. Hold that choices and/or acts or intentions are to be morally assessed solely by the states of affairs they bring about
normative hedonism
motivational hedonism
consequentialists
paternalism
30. 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
Doctrine of Right
rule utilitarianism
Stage 4
31. Lists seven features of pleasure to which attention must be paid in order to assess how great it is
categorical imperatives
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
Professional Code of Ethics
hedonic calculus
32. Claims that humans are naturally self-interested and they are not naturally selfish or motivated by pride
rule utilitarianism
Thomas Hobbes
Moral virtue
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
33. When someone's work stands to serve an interest in conflict with his or her obligations as a professional
meta-ethics
Stage 2
conflict of interest
Ignorance
34. Humans pursue only their own self-interest; all people are equal; three natural causes of quarrel; natural condition of perpetual war; motivation for peace
autonomy
Ethics
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
35. Written by Hobbes - morality consists of Laws of Nature
artificial virtues
consequentialists
Leviathan
motivational hedonism
36. Morality depends on religious belief or on a set of values given by a religion
components of informed consent
Stage 1
heteronomy
unconditional
37. An agreement between two parties - but only one of the parties has to do something
unconditional
Thomas Hobbes
Stage 1
rule utilitarianism
38. Duties to adopt certain ends - many are imperfect in that they do not specify how - when - or for whom they should be achieved
Courage
Eternal law
social contract theory
Doctrine of Virtue
39. Courage - magnanimity - ambition - friendship - generosity - fidelity - gratitude
Leviathan
consequentialists
Kant
natural virtues
40. 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
human nature
social contract theory
Epictetus
41. Disclosure of information - comprehension - voluntariness
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
components of informed consent
Socrates
Doctrine of Virtue
42. Disclosing relevant information regardng a medical diagnosis or treatment
Stage 4
Immanuel Kant
disclosure of information
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
43. Explores when and how to compensate someone for a loss
corrective justice
Ethics of care
Pre-conventional level
Jeremy Bentham
44. Consent is the basis of government - people have agreed to be ruled that governments are entitled to rule
St Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Hobbes
social contract theory
retributive justice
45. Believed that morality consisted on acting on the basis of duty alone - the consequences of our actions are often out of our control
Kant
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
Stoic philosphy
normative ethics
46. The first 5 books of the Old Testament
components of informed consent
covenant
The Books of Law
David Hume
47. View holds that the good for which all humans aspire is happiness - which is the activity of the soul
distributive justice
Aristotle
David Hume
Plato
48. To punish subjects who break the law
The Gospels
normative ethics
covenant
primary purpose of the Leviathan
49. Tell about the life and ministry of Jesus - in the New Testament
corrective justice
Act utilitarianism
meta-ethics
The Gospels
50. Practicality; help citizens orient themselves within their own social world; probe the limits of practicable political possibility; reconciliation
seven features of pleasure
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
distributive justice
heteronomy
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