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DSST Ethics In America 2
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1. Social Contracts - think in terms of laws because of majority agreements
covenant
Epictetus
Stage 5
normative ethics
2. System of moral principles - affects how people make decisionss and lead their lives
Descriptive ethics
meta-ethics
Ethics
Enchiridion
3. Founder of Liberalism - believed that everybody must be moved by a desire for his or her own happiness or pleasure.
Happiness
Virtue
theonomy
John Locke
4. 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
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
Thomas Hobbes
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
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
John Rawls
Stage 6
Puffery
virtues
6. Practicality; help citizens orient themselves within their own social world; probe the limits of practicable political possibility; reconciliation
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
Vices
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
teleology
7. Genuin care for others (stages 3 and 4 of Kohlberg's hierarchy)
Conventional level
Ethics
Epictetus
categorical imperatives
8. Talks about what punishments are appropriate for wrongdoing
Deontologists
The Books of Law
retributive justice
conditional covenant
9. 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
justice
Immanuel Kant
unconditional
meta-ethics
10. Fostering good interpersonal relationships - thinkers take the needs and interests of others into account - it is important to make others happy
Stage 3
nonconsequentialist normative theory
Vices
Stoic philosphy
11. Duties that form this subject matter are precise - owed to specifiable others - and can be legally enforced
Doctrine of Right
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
Standard of Happiness
12. Duties to adopt certain ends - many are imperfect in that they do not specify how - when - or for whom they should be achieved
Deontology
primary purpose of the Leviathan
Doctrine of Virtue
Happiness
13. Four basic possible standards: Full Disclosure Standard - Subjective Standard - Customary Practice or Professional Standard - Reasonable Person Standard
Standards of disclosure
virtues
John Stuart Mill
Ethics
14. Prudence - courage - justice - temperance
stoic moral virtues
justice
Thomas Hobbes
Stage 2
15. Should a whole society be responsible for the actions of a few? What are the justifications of any actions against an enemy?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
heteronomy
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
Happiness
16. A hierarchy that tracked how people can move from lesser to a more sophisticated ethical reasoning
17. Bad character traits
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
Vices
Immanuel Kant
conflict of interest
18. Live according to nature - according to rational principles which involve an emphasis on character and self-mastery - reason links all of society
divine command theory
Stoic philosphy
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
meta-ethics
19. Making exagerated claims about products
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
Puffery
John Locke
20. Descriptive - normative - meta-ethics
The 3 branches of ethics
Pre-conventional level
Socrates
The Books of Law
21. Plato believed the organization of the soul of a good person is similiar to this
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
Doctrine of Virtue
Immanuel Kant
corrective justice
22. Claim that only pleasure or pain motivate us - most significant form of psychological hedonism
Professional Code of Ethics
motivational hedonism
Ethics
Natural Law Theory
23. 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
St Thomas Aquinas
teleology
theonomy
Act utilitarianism
24. Former slave who received an education in the doctrine of Stoic philosophy - believed ethical wisdom can be obtained by keeping a moral purpose in harmony with nature
Ignorance
Epictetus
Ethics of care
human nature
25. View holds that the good for which all humans aspire is happiness - which is the activity of the soul
theonomy
Ignorance
St Thomas Aquinas
Aristotle
26. According to Socrates this is the sufficient condition to the good life
Stage 1
Act utilitarianism
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
Self-knowledge
27. Hold that choices and/or acts or intentions are to be morally assessed solely by the states of affairs they bring about
Enchiridion
Utilitarianism
consequentialists
Aristotle
28. Morality and religion are thought to come from a common source of inspiration and knowledge - a source that religion may refer to as God
Stoic philosphy
Kant
theonomy
hedonic calculus
29. Reliable habits you engrave into your identity
meta-ethics
virtues
Ethics
Virtue ethics
30. Tell you what to do in order to achieve a particular goal
hypothetical imperatives
virtues
theory of justice as fairness
St Thomas Aquinas
31. Morality depends on religious belief or on a set of values given by a religion
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Moral virtue
Courage
heteronomy
32. Includes a good habit - a mean - and a disposition to act within reason
Virtue
Stoic philosphy
Immanuel Kant
Vices
33. Believe that right and good consist in obedience to objective moral duties
Immanuel Kant
Eternal law
categorical imperatives
Deontologists
34. Courage - magnanimity - ambition - friendship - generosity - fidelity - gratitude
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
natural virtues
theonomy
Plato
35. Consent is the basis of government - people have agreed to be ruled that governments are entitled to rule
Plato
social contract theory
meta-ethics
Thomas Hobbes
36. 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
components of informed consent
Virtue
normative ethics
Happiness
37. 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
Epictetus
Natural Law Theory
hypothetical imperatives
David Hume
38. Claim that all and only pleasure has worth or value and all and only pain has disvalue - happiness should be pursued
hedonic calculus
normative hedonism
Stage 2
St Thomas Aquinas
39. Evidence of a valid consent
meta-ethics
Consent Form
autonomy
Post conventional level
40. An attempt to revise - reformulate - or rethink traditional ethics to the extent it depreciates or devalues women's moral experience
artificial virtues
feminist ethics
unconditional
Self-knowledge
41. Says we should always do the will of God
Post conventional level
nonconsequentialist normative theory
stoic moral virtues
Socrates
42. Punishment and reward - thinking is animalistic - actions are in ways that anticipate reward and avoid punishment
Stage 1
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
retributive justice
informed consent
43. Disclosure of information - comprehension - voluntariness
Aristotle
Eternal law
components of informed consent
Leviathan
44. An american philosopher in the liberal tradition - had theory of justice as fairness
John Rawls
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
45. Ethical responsibilites at work - avoiding conflicts of interest
Professional Code of Ethics
Ethics
Socrates
Plato
46. God's device to govern the whole community of the universe towards the common good
Eternal law
corrective justice
theonomy
consequentialists
47. Wrote the History of the Peloponnesian War
categorical imperatives
Thucydides
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
Socrates
48. 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
Deontology
Stoic philosphy
49. Envisions a society of free citizens holding equal basic rights of cooperating within an egalitarian economic system
Moral virtue
theonomy
justice
theory of justice as fairness
50. Disclosing relevant information regardng a medical diagnosis or treatment
John Stuart Mill
motivational hedonism
Socrates
disclosure of information