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DSST Ethics In America 2
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1. Felt that ethics was born of human conflict
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
Stage 4
conditional covenant
Socrates
2. Ethical responsibilites at work - avoiding conflicts of interest
Conventional level
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
Professional Code of Ethics
3. Justice - promise-keeping - allegiance to legitimate government
Utilitarianism
artificial virtues
Leviathan
Standards of disclosure
4. Socrates believed that whatever action a man chooses is motivated for his desire for this
covenant
normative ethics
Happiness
The 3 branches of ethics
5. Disclosing information to outside sources without permission of the company regarding unethical practices
Whistle blowing
categorical imperatives
Self-knowledge
Deontologists
6. Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness
conditional covenant
Standard of Happiness
Stage 1
normative hedonism
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
natural virtues
theonomy
Immanuel Kant
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
8. 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
paternalism
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
heteronomy
Standards of disclosure
9. Courage - magnanimity - ambition - friendship - generosity - fidelity - gratitude
conditional covenant
The 3 branches of ethics
Virtue
natural virtues
10. Consent is the basis of government - people have agreed to be ruled that governments are entitled to rule
Enchiridion
Stage 5
social contract theory
virtues
11. The study of ends or final causes or purposes that things serve
unconditional
Consent Form
teleology
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
12. Talks about who should get which benefits and which burdens
Enchiridion
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
conflict of interest
distributive justice
13. Believe that right and good consist in obedience to objective moral duties
Virtue ethics
Puffery
Deontologists
Immanuel Kant
14. Live according to nature - according to rational principles which involve an emphasis on character and self-mastery - reason links all of society
Stoic philosphy
Professional Code of Ethics
Vices
Utilitarianism
15. View holds that the good for which all humans aspire is happiness - which is the activity of the soul
heteronomy
distributive justice
Aristotle
The 3 branches of ethics
16. An agreement between two parties - but only one of the parties has to do something
theonomy
unconditional
Virtue ethics
divine command theory
17. Morality depends on religious belief or on a set of values given by a religion
informed consent
Ethics of care
heteronomy
conflict of interest
18. 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
meta-ethics
heteronomy
stoic moral virtues
Post conventional level
19. An agreement that is binding on both parties for its fulfillment
Ignorance
conditional covenant
Courage
Stage 2
20. An american philosopher in the liberal tradition - had theory of justice as fairness
Doctrine of Virtue
John Rawls
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
Doctrine of Right
21. Talks about what punishments are appropriate for wrongdoing
retributive justice
covenant
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
Jeremy Bentham
22. Duties that form this subject matter are precise - owed to specifiable others - and can be legally enforced
Stage 5
Ignorance
Doctrine of Right
heteronomy
23. When someone's work stands to serve an interest in conflict with his or her obligations as a professional
conflict of interest
Eternal law
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
feminist ethics
24. Prudence - courage - justice - temperance
artificial virtues
Socrates
Puffery
stoic moral virtues
25. Things are morally good or bad - or morally obligatory - permissible - or prohibited - soley because of God's will or command
divine command theory
meta-ethics
virtues
John Rawls
26. A generalized blueprint for the kind of entity you are
Ignorance
John Stuart Mill
Thomas Hobbes
human nature
27. 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
primary purpose of the Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
Stage 4
Thucydides
28. Describes the ethical standards of a person - community - culture - etc. (controversial topics)
The Books of Law
Doctrine of Virtue
Thomas Hobbes
Descriptive ethics
29. There is moral significance in the fundamental elements of relationships and dependencies in human life (care-givers)
artificial virtues
divine command theory
Whistle blowing
Ethics of care
30. Includes a good habit - a mean - and a disposition to act within reason
The Books of Law
Eternal law
Virtue
components of informed consent
31. Student of Socrates who suggested the good life is one of intelligence
Enchiridion
The Gospels
Leviathan
Plato
32. Tell about the life and ministry of Jesus - in the New Testament
Thomas Hobbes
consequentialists
The Gospels
Jeremy Bentham
33. Duties to adopt certain ends - many are imperfect in that they do not specify how - when - or for whom they should be achieved
Doctrine of Virtue
seven features of pleasure
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
meta-ethics
34. Tell us what to do irrespective of our desires
seven features of pleasure
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
categorical imperatives
theonomy
35. 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
David Hume
Stage 3
St Thomas Aquinas
social contract theory
36. God's device to govern the whole community of the universe towards the common good
Eternal law
St Thomas Aquinas
David Hume
Doctrine of Right
37. Humans pursue only their own self-interest; all people are equal; three natural causes of quarrel; natural condition of perpetual war; motivation for peace
rule utilitarianism
covenant
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
Courage
38. Socrates believed that all wrong doing is a result of this
Ignorance
normative hedonism
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
Stage 6
39. Evidence of a valid consent
Vices
Consent Form
St Thomas Aquinas
The 3 branches of ethics
40. We always ought to perform that act that leads to the most pleasure
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
Puffery
Act utilitarianism
41. Divides moral philosophy into two domains - justice or law and ethics or virtue
disclosure of information
Whistle blowing
virtues
Immanuel Kant
42. 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
Leviathan
Standards of disclosure
Deontology
Thucydides
43. Descriptive - normative - meta-ethics
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
Moral virtue
The 3 branches of ethics
Descriptive ethics
44. Moral character - a theory of morality that makes virtue the central concern
virtues
Virtue ethics
Thucydides
Epictetus
45. Making exagerated claims about products
motivational hedonism
Consent Form
Puffery
disclosure of information
46. The view that there exists an eternal moral law that can be discovered through reason by looking at the nature of humanity and society
Doctrine of Virtue
Natural Law Theory
Socrates
theonomy
47. An attempt to revise - reformulate - or rethink traditional ethics to the extent it depreciates or devalues women's moral experience
paternalism
Leviathan
The Books of Law
feminist ethics
48. Guide of moral conduct based on the principles of Stoicism
justice
Enchiridion
covenant
theory of justice as fairness
49. Social Contracts - think in terms of laws because of majority agreements
Stage 5
teleology
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
natural virtues
50. To punish subjects who break the law
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Immanuel Kant
meta-ethics
primary purpose of the Leviathan