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DSST Ethics In America 2
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1. God's device to govern the whole community of the universe towards the common good
John Rawls
Vices
Eternal law
The 3 branches of ethics
2. Tell you what to do in order to achieve a particular goal
hypothetical imperatives
Eternal law
Kant
Whistle blowing
3. Tell us what to do irrespective of our desires
Courage
human nature
categorical imperatives
Post conventional level
4. 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
David Hume
Virtue ethics
informed consent
hypothetical imperatives
5. 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 of care
hypothetical imperatives
social contract theory
St Thomas Aquinas
6. Duties that form this subject matter are precise - owed to specifiable others - and can be legally enforced
components of informed consent
Ethics
Kant
Doctrine of Right
7. Describes the ethical standards of a person - community - culture - etc. (controversial topics)
paternalism
Golden Mean
Post conventional level
Descriptive ethics
8. Self-mastery according to Kant
Doctrine of Virtue
heteronomy
divine command theory
Courage
9. Punishment and reward - thinking is animalistic - actions are in ways that anticipate reward and avoid punishment
St Thomas Aquinas
Stage 1
conflict of interest
informed consent
10. Socrates believed that all wrong doing is a result of this
Ignorance
natural virtues
Thomas Hobbes
normative hedonism
11. The study of ends or final causes or purposes that things serve
Act utilitarianism
teleology
conflict of interest
Deontologists
12. Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness
Post conventional level
Stage 6
Standard of Happiness
nonconsequentialist normative theory
13. An american philosopher in the liberal tradition - had theory of justice as fairness
stoic moral virtues
Virtue
John Rawls
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
14. 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
Ignorance
Stage 2
Act utilitarianism
15. Evidence of a valid consent
Ignorance
paternalism
Consent Form
meta-ethics
16. Believed that moral justification came from utility and good institutions produce good consequences (Hedonistic Utilitarianism)
covenant
Socrates
Jeremy Bentham
Thucydides
17. Rights and Justice - concerned mostly with justice - being an ideal ethical thinker needs you to distance yourself from a situation to assess it clearly
normative ethics
Vices
Stage 6
Doctrine of Right
18. An attempt to revise - reformulate - or rethink traditional ethics to the extent it depreciates or devalues women's moral experience
feminist ethics
categorical imperatives
consequentialists
corrective justice
19. An action is morally obligatory if it produces the most good for the most people
theory of justice as fairness
conditional covenant
Act utilitarianism
Virtue ethics
20. We always ought to perform that act that leads to the most pleasure
normative ethics
John Locke
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
theonomy
21. 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
Stage 2
hedonic calculus
paternalism
Ethics
22. Set of rules that produces the greatest amount of good for the most people
rule utilitarianism
retributive justice
divine command theory
Eternal law
23. Ethical responsibilites at work - avoiding conflicts of interest
Professional Code of Ethics
Ethics of care
Immanuel Kant
theory of justice as fairness
24. Believed that morality consisted on acting on the basis of duty alone - the consequences of our actions are often out of our control
seven features of pleasure
Kant
artificial virtues
social contract theory
25. Four basic possible standards: Full Disclosure Standard - Subjective Standard - Customary Practice or Professional Standard - Reasonable Person Standard
Standards of disclosure
Golden Mean
Virtue
Stage 2
26. Student of Socrates who suggested the good life is one of intelligence
Deontologists
Descriptive ethics
Vices
Plato
27. Consent is the basis of government - people have agreed to be ruled that governments are entitled to rule
justice
natural virtues
Virtue
social contract theory
28. Name the four authors of the Gospels
normative hedonism
hedonic calculus
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
29. Descriptive - normative - meta-ethics
justice
The 3 branches of ethics
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
hypothetical imperatives
30. Things are morally good or bad - or morally obligatory - permissible - or prohibited - soley because of God's will or command
Standard of Happiness
Ignorance
Deontology
divine command theory
31. Believe that right and good consist in obedience to objective moral duties
Stage 3
distributive justice
The 3 branches of ethics
Deontologists
32. 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)
Epictetus
components of informed consent
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
Stage 4
33. Selfishness and lack of concern for other (contains first two stages of Kohlberg's hierarchy)
Self-knowledge
theory of justice as fairness
Pre-conventional level
Post conventional level
34. Moral character - a theory of morality that makes virtue the central concern
Vices
teleology
seven features of pleasure
Virtue ethics
35. Plato believed the organization of the soul of a good person is similiar to this
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
Vices
Golden Mean
conditional covenant
36. Justice - promise-keeping - allegiance to legitimate government
motivational hedonism
unconditional
primary purpose of the Leviathan
artificial virtues
37. Includes a good habit - a mean - and a disposition to act within reason
theory of justice as fairness
virtues
Stage 5
Virtue
38. 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
normative ethics
disclosure of information
Consent Form
Stage 2
39. Envisions a society of free citizens holding equal basic rights of cooperating within an egalitarian economic system
The Gospels
consequentialists
Ethics of care
theory of justice as fairness
40. 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
normative ethics
Deontology
motivational hedonism
Descriptive ethics
41. Wrote the History of the Peloponnesian War
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
motivational hedonism
primary purpose of the Leviathan
Thucydides
42. Socrates believed that whatever action a man chooses is motivated for his desire for this
Virtue ethics
Happiness
nonconsequentialist normative theory
Self-knowledge
43. Humans pursue only their own self-interest; all people are equal; three natural causes of quarrel; natural condition of perpetual war; motivation for peace
virtues
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
paternalism
Doctrine of Virtue
44. Written by Hobbes - morality consists of Laws of Nature
Consent Form
natural virtues
Professional Code of Ethics
Leviathan
45. Morality depends on religious belief or on a set of values given by a religion
Socrates
Happiness
heteronomy
Utilitarianism
46. Disclosing information to outside sources without permission of the company regarding unethical practices
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
Whistle blowing
paternalism
conflict of interest
47. Egoism and exchange relationships - thinking is based on self-interest and how it can be achieved within relationships
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
normative hedonism
informed consent
Stage 2
48. Morality and religion are thought to come from a common source of inspiration and knowledge - a source that religion may refer to as God
hypothetical imperatives
Ethics
theonomy
The Gospels
49. When someone's work stands to serve an interest in conflict with his or her obligations as a professional
Epictetus
rule utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill
conflict of interest
50. Claim that all and only pleasure has worth or value and all and only pain has disvalue - happiness should be pursued
normative hedonism
Courage
Standards of disclosure
natural virtues