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DSST Ethics In America 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The idea of avoiding extremes - you shouldn't do anything to excess
Stage 4
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
Golden Mean
2. System of moral principles - affects how people make decisionss and lead their lives
Ethics
feminist ethics
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
divine command theory
3. Tell you what to do in order to achieve a particular goal
retributive justice
hypothetical imperatives
nonconsequentialist normative theory
Golden Mean
4. An agreement that is binding on both parties for its fulfillment
conditional covenant
theory of justice as fairness
Stage 2
Eternal law
5. According to Socrates this is the sufficient condition to the good life
Self-knowledge
The Gospels
Socrates
Stoic philosphy
6. Believed that moral justification came from utility and good institutions produce good consequences (Hedonistic Utilitarianism)
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
Jeremy Bentham
Conventional level
The 3 branches of ethics
7. When someone's work stands to serve an interest in conflict with his or her obligations as a professional
heteronomy
Post conventional level
conflict of interest
Stage 1
8. Self-mastery according to Kant
Courage
distributive justice
conditional covenant
Standards of disclosure
9. Guide of moral conduct based on the principles of Stoicism
Enchiridion
meta-ethics
Stage 3
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
10. An american philosopher in the liberal tradition - had theory of justice as fairness
Immanuel Kant
artificial virtues
Doctrine of Virtue
John Rawls
11. There is moral significance in the fundamental elements of relationships and dependencies in human life (care-givers)
Deontologists
Ethics of care
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
theory of justice as fairness
12. 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
Act utilitarianism
heteronomy
normative hedonism
13. Believed that morality consisted on acting on the basis of duty alone - the consequences of our actions are often out of our control
motivational hedonism
Whistle blowing
primary purpose of the Leviathan
Kant
14. Tell about the life and ministry of Jesus - in the New Testament
The Gospels
informed consent
Virtue
The 3 branches of ethics
15. Envisions a society of free citizens holding equal basic rights of cooperating within an egalitarian economic system
artificial virtues
theory of justice as fairness
Moral virtue
consequentialists
16. Evidence of a valid consent
Consent Form
nonconsequentialist normative theory
Conventional level
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
17. Duties to adopt certain ends - many are imperfect in that they do not specify how - when - or for whom they should be achieved
informed consent
seven features of pleasure
Doctrine of Virtue
divine command theory
18. Name the first 5 books of the Old Testament
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
Deontology
Deontologists
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
19. Moral character - a theory of morality that makes virtue the central concern
Utilitarianism
Eternal law
Virtue ethics
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
20. Morality based on religion alone - without any reference to religious ideas
Virtue ethics
autonomy
Standard of Happiness
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
21. Justice - promise-keeping - allegiance to legitimate government
artificial virtues
Self-knowledge
Deontologists
hedonic calculus
22. Name the four authors of the Gospels
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
The 3 branches of ethics
Moral virtue
paternalism
23. To punish subjects who break the law
Happiness
primary purpose of the Leviathan
nonconsequentialist normative theory
Stoic philosphy
24. Explores when and how to compensate someone for a loss
corrective justice
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
Stage 5
25. Plato believed the organization of the soul of a good person is similiar to this
Leviathan
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
Stage 2
theonomy
26. An attempt to revise - reformulate - or rethink traditional ethics to the extent it depreciates or devalues women's moral experience
Stage 4
feminist ethics
hypothetical imperatives
Socrates
27. Claim that all and only pleasure has worth or value and all and only pain has disvalue - happiness should be pursued
Stage 1
Jeremy Bentham
Thucydides
normative hedonism
28. The first 5 books of the Old Testament
Stoic philosphy
The Books of Law
Ethics of care
conditional covenant
29. 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 1
John Stuart Mill
Self-knowledge
paternalism
30. Humans pursue only their own self-interest; all people are equal; three natural causes of quarrel; natural condition of perpetual war; motivation for peace
Doctrine of Right
Deontology
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
Consent Form
31. Disclosure of information - comprehension - voluntariness
Post conventional level
divine command theory
components of informed consent
Virtue
32. 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
Jeremy Bentham
Stoic philosphy
Whistle blowing
St Thomas Aquinas
33. Says we should always do the will of God
components of informed consent
nonconsequentialist normative theory
Descriptive ethics
conditional covenant
34. Three Aristotelian principles followed by Aquinas
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
Immanuel Kant
Natural Law Theory
Virtue ethics
35. Duties that form this subject matter are precise - owed to specifiable others - and can be legally enforced
Doctrine of Right
Standards of disclosure
Happiness
Self-knowledge
36. 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
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
Kant
Utilitarianism
37. Morality and religion are thought to come from a common source of inspiration and knowledge - a source that religion may refer to as God
Whistle blowing
Socrates
theonomy
The 3 branches of ethics
38. 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)
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
John Stuart Mill
Plato
motivational hedonism
39. Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness
Standard of Happiness
Conventional level
Ignorance
Ethics
40. Things are morally good or bad - or morally obligatory - permissible - or prohibited - soley because of God's will or command
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
divine command theory
David Hume
disclosure of information
41. Divides moral philosophy into two domains - justice or law and ethics or virtue
Consent Form
Immanuel Kant
Eternal law
Virtue ethics
42. 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
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
Stage 1
Epictetus
Professional Code of Ethics
43. Talks about who should get which benefits and which burdens
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
The Books of Law
distributive justice
artificial virtues
44. Claims that humans are naturally self-interested and they are not naturally selfish or motivated by pride
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
primary purpose of the Leviathan
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
normative ethics
45. Tell us what to do irrespective of our desires
categorical imperatives
Stage 6
retributive justice
The Books of Law
46. Competition over material good; general distrust; glory of powerful positions
Eternal law
normative hedonism
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
Ethics of care
47. Practicality; help citizens orient themselves within their own social world; probe the limits of practicable political possibility; reconciliation
Moral virtue
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
Conventional level
John Locke
48. A relative mean between extremes of excess and deficiency - ini general a life of moderation in all things except virtue
categorical imperatives
Moral virtue
Post conventional level
paternalism
49. A hierarchy that tracked how people can move from lesser to a more sophisticated ethical reasoning
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50. Reliable habits you engrave into your identity
Deontologists
virtues
normative hedonism
meta-ethics