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DSST Ethics In America 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Justice - promise-keeping - allegiance to legitimate government
unconditional
Jeremy Bentham
artificial virtues
Consent Form
2. Founder of Liberalism - believed that everybody must be moved by a desire for his or her own happiness or pleasure.
paternalism
virtues
John Locke
Professional Code of Ethics
3. Claim that only pleasure or pain motivate us - most significant form of psychological hedonism
distributive justice
virtues
Stage 5
motivational hedonism
4. Lists seven features of pleasure to which attention must be paid in order to assess how great it is
categorical imperatives
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
hedonic calculus
artificial virtues
5. God's device to govern the whole community of the universe towards the common good
Consent Form
components of informed consent
artificial virtues
Eternal law
6. An attempt to revise - reformulate - or rethink traditional ethics to the extent it depreciates or devalues women's moral experience
Self-knowledge
teleology
feminist ethics
primary purpose of the Leviathan
7. Socrates believed that all wrong doing is a result of this
meta-ethics
corrective justice
Ignorance
unconditional
8. Moral character - a theory of morality that makes virtue the central concern
Leviathan
Virtue ethics
Stage 4
Virtue
9. Duties that form this subject matter are precise - owed to specifiable others - and can be legally enforced
unconditional
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
Descriptive ethics
Doctrine of Right
10. Genuin care for others (stages 3 and 4 of Kohlberg's hierarchy)
Happiness
Conventional level
John Stuart Mill
Virtue ethics
11. Plato believed the organization of the soul of a good person is similiar to this
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
social contract theory
theonomy
Act utilitarianism
12. Wrote the History of the Peloponnesian War
corrective justice
Thucydides
natural virtues
Leviathan
13. Four basic possible standards: Full Disclosure Standard - Subjective Standard - Customary Practice or Professional Standard - Reasonable Person Standard
corrective justice
Stage 3
seven features of pleasure
Standards of disclosure
14. Evidence of a valid consent
Doctrine of Virtue
Kant
Consent Form
normative hedonism
15. 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)
Virtue
Stage 4
Leviathan
Stage 3
16. Morality depends on religious belief or on a set of values given by a religion
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
paternalism
corrective justice
heteronomy
17. Socrates believed that whatever action a man chooses is motivated for his desire for this
corrective justice
Doctrine of Virtue
Standards of disclosure
Happiness
18. Consent is the basis of government - people have agreed to be ruled that governments are entitled to rule
social contract theory
Doctrine of Virtue
conditional covenant
Leviathan
19. Making exagerated claims about products
John Rawls
primary purpose of the Leviathan
stoic moral virtues
Puffery
20. A relative mean between extremes of excess and deficiency - ini general a life of moderation in all things except virtue
paternalism
Puffery
teleology
Moral virtue
21. Tell about the life and ministry of Jesus - in the New Testament
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
components of informed consent
Post conventional level
The Gospels
22. Selfishness and lack of concern for other (contains first two stages of Kohlberg's hierarchy)
Ethics of care
Consent Form
Pre-conventional level
Stage 4
23. To punish subjects who break the law
The 3 branches of ethics
Deontologists
primary purpose of the Leviathan
artificial virtues
24. Humans pursue only their own self-interest; all people are equal; three natural causes of quarrel; natural condition of perpetual war; motivation for peace
John Rawls
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
Moral virtue
The Books of Law
25. Competition over material good; general distrust; glory of powerful positions
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
Socrates
consequentialists
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
26. Fostering good interpersonal relationships - thinkers take the needs and interests of others into account - it is important to make others happy
John Locke
Stage 3
Act utilitarianism
Enchiridion
27. We always ought to perform that act that leads to the most pleasure
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
hypothetical imperatives
primary purpose of the Leviathan
unconditional
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
Standard of Happiness
Golden Mean
theonomy
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
29. The idea of avoiding extremes - you shouldn't do anything to excess
Golden Mean
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
Whistle blowing
categorical imperatives
30. Envisions a society of free citizens holding equal basic rights of cooperating within an egalitarian economic system
Ignorance
Act utilitarianism
theory of justice as fairness
normative hedonism
31. Duties to adopt certain ends - many are imperfect in that they do not specify how - when - or for whom they should be achieved
motivational hedonism
meta-ethics
Standards of disclosure
Doctrine of Virtue
32. Believe that right and good consist in obedience to objective moral duties
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
Deontologists
Courage
divine command theory
33. An agreement between two parties - but only one of the parties has to do something
unconditional
Ethics
disclosure of information
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
34. Self-mastery according to Kant
Ethics
conflict of interest
Doctrine of Virtue
Courage
35. 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
Stage 2
Epictetus
justice
natural virtues
36. Ethical responsibilites at work - avoiding conflicts of interest
Virtue
Act utilitarianism
informed consent
Professional Code of Ethics
37. An agreement that is binding on both parties for its fulfillment
Puffery
Standards of disclosure
Stage 6
conditional covenant
38. Student of Socrates who suggested the good life is one of intelligence
virtues
Plato
Courage
David Hume
39. Practicality; help citizens orient themselves within their own social world; probe the limits of practicable political possibility; reconciliation
Happiness
Thomas Hobbes
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
divine command theory
40. Egoism and exchange relationships - thinking is based on self-interest and how it can be achieved within relationships
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
Stage 2
distributive justice
Socrates
41. Felt that ethics was born of human conflict
motivational hedonism
Deontology
Virtue ethics
Socrates
42. 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
Pre-conventional level
natural virtues
St Thomas Aquinas
43. Believed that moral justification came from utility and good institutions produce good consequences (Hedonistic Utilitarianism)
theory of justice as fairness
artificial virtues
Jeremy Bentham
Stage 4
44. Describes the ethical standards of a person - community - culture - etc. (controversial topics)
Descriptive ethics
Consent Form
distributive justice
hypothetical imperatives
45. 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
Deontology
Ignorance
John Locke
Leviathan
46. Hold that choices and/or acts or intentions are to be morally assessed solely by the states of affairs they bring about
Enchiridion
conditional covenant
consequentialists
divine command theory
47. Bad character traits
conflict of interest
hedonic calculus
consequentialists
Vices
48. Intensity - duration - certainty - propinquity (nearness) - fecundity - purity - extent
Standard of Happiness
Ethics of care
The 3 branches of ethics
seven features of pleasure
49. Disclosing relevant information regardng a medical diagnosis or treatment
divine command theory
unconditional
disclosure of information
rule utilitarianism
50. 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
nonconsequentialist normative theory
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 1