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DSST Ethics In America 2
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1. 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)
John Stuart Mill
Pre-conventional level
Stage 4
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
2. A relative mean between extremes of excess and deficiency - ini general a life of moderation in all things except virtue
unconditional
Moral virtue
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
feminist ethics
3. 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)
Post conventional level
Act utilitarianism
Stage 2
Deontology
4. Disclosing information to outside sources without permission of the company regarding unethical practices
Epictetus
Post conventional level
Whistle blowing
Vices
5. Claim that all and only pleasure has worth or value and all and only pain has disvalue - happiness should be pursued
heteronomy
normative hedonism
Immanuel Kant
hedonic calculus
6. Process by which patients are asked to consent to procedures after being sufficiently informed to make a rational decision
informed consent
retributive justice
theonomy
Doctrine of Virtue
7. System of moral principles - affects how people make decisionss and lead their lives
Ethics
Standard of Happiness
seven features of pleasure
meta-ethics
8. The first 5 books of the Old Testament
David Hume
The Books of Law
Epictetus
Post conventional level
9. Self-mastery according to Kant
primary purpose of the Leviathan
Courage
Stage 6
social contract theory
10. Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness
conditional covenant
meta-ethics
autonomy
Standard of Happiness
11. Envisions a society of free citizens holding equal basic rights of cooperating within an egalitarian economic system
theory of justice as fairness
components of informed consent
autonomy
Consent Form
12. Believed that moral justification came from utility and good institutions produce good consequences (Hedonistic Utilitarianism)
Jeremy Bentham
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Thomas Hobbes
corrective justice
13. A generalized blueprint for the kind of entity you are
Descriptive ethics
disclosure of information
human nature
Thucydides
14. Believe that right and good consist in obedience to objective moral duties
Moral virtue
Standards of disclosure
components of informed consent
Deontologists
15. There is moral significance in the fundamental elements of relationships and dependencies in human life (care-givers)
justice
Ethics of care
Descriptive ethics
Deontologists
16. Practicality; help citizens orient themselves within their own social world; probe the limits of practicable political possibility; reconciliation
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
Ignorance
theonomy
Consent Form
17. An american philosopher in the liberal tradition - had theory of justice as fairness
Standard of Happiness
Stage 5
John Rawls
unconditional
18. Prudence - courage - justice - temperance
Ignorance
stoic moral virtues
Stage 1
theonomy
19. 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
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
Stage 2
Act utilitarianism
20. Morality depends on religious belief or on a set of values given by a religion
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
heteronomy
natural virtues
autonomy
21. Says we should always do the will of God
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
nonconsequentialist normative theory
Standards of disclosure
informed consent
22. Claims that humans are naturally self-interested and they are not naturally selfish or motivated by pride
Vices
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Deontologists
corrective justice
23. A hierarchy that tracked how people can move from lesser to a more sophisticated ethical reasoning
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24. Things are morally good or bad - or morally obligatory - permissible - or prohibited - soley because of God's will or command
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
consequentialists
divine command theory
retributive justice
25. Tell us what to do irrespective of our desires
feminist ethics
categorical imperatives
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
Whistle blowing
26. View holds that the good for which all humans aspire is happiness - which is the activity of the soul
St Thomas Aquinas
Aristotle
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
Virtue
27. Divides moral philosophy into two domains - justice or law and ethics or virtue
Natural Law Theory
Immanuel Kant
rule utilitarianism
primary purpose of the Leviathan
28. Written by Hobbes - morality consists of Laws of Nature
Leviathan
Stage 3
Happiness
seven features of pleasure
29. Guide of moral conduct based on the principles of Stoicism
nonconsequentialist normative theory
Vices
Stoic philosphy
Enchiridion
30. 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
rule utilitarianism
Immanuel Kant
autonomy
normative ethics
31. Plato believed the organization of the soul of a good person is similiar to this
Ethics of care
Leviathan
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
components of informed consent
32. Competition over material good; general distrust; glory of powerful positions
Puffery
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
human nature
33. Selfishness and lack of concern for other (contains first two stages of Kohlberg's hierarchy)
Consent Form
Pre-conventional level
Thucydides
stoic moral virtues
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
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
heteronomy
autonomy
Standards of disclosure
35. Wrote the History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
heteronomy
Standard of Happiness
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
36. Lists seven features of pleasure to which attention must be paid in order to assess how great it is
Deontology
seven features of pleasure
Kant
hedonic calculus
37. An attempt to revise - reformulate - or rethink traditional ethics to the extent it depreciates or devalues women's moral experience
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
Happiness
feminist ethics
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
38. 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
Professional Code of Ethics
Aristotle
David Hume
Pre-conventional level
39. We always ought to perform that act that leads to the most pleasure
Stage 6
Whistle blowing
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
virtues
40. 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
Utilitarianism
motivational hedonism
Thomas Hobbes
unconditional
41. Hold that choices and/or acts or intentions are to be morally assessed solely by the states of affairs they bring about
consequentialists
human nature
components of informed consent
Doctrine of Right
42. 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
feminist ethics
Immanuel Kant
Virtue ethics
meta-ethics
43. Evidence of a valid consent
seven features of pleasure
John Stuart Mill
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
Consent Form
44. Advocates that moral values are relative to likely social consequences - we must act in a way as to help bring about the greatest good for the greatest number of people (Standard of Happiness)
John Rawls
Aristotle
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
John Stuart Mill
45. Making exagerated claims about products
Doctrine of Virtue
paternalism
Puffery
Jeremy Bentham
46. To punish subjects who break the law
primary purpose of the Leviathan
Ethics
categorical imperatives
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
47. Tell about the life and ministry of Jesus - in the New Testament
Utilitarianism
The Gospels
Deontologists
teleology
48. An agreement that is binding on both parties for its fulfillment
Stage 3
Jeremy Bentham
conditional covenant
Natural Law Theory
49. Claim that only pleasure or pain motivate us - most significant form of psychological hedonism
Whistle blowing
John Rawls
motivational hedonism
covenant
50. Includes a good habit - a mean - and a disposition to act within reason
artificial virtues
Virtue
Ignorance
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development