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DSST Ethics In America 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Fostering good interpersonal relationships - thinkers take the needs and interests of others into account - it is important to make others happy
Virtue ethics
conflict of interest
John Locke
Stage 3
2. Hold that choices and/or acts or intentions are to be morally assessed solely by the states of affairs they bring about
unconditional
Aristotle
Immanuel Kant
consequentialists
3. 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
Stoic philosphy
Stage 5
corrective justice
St Thomas Aquinas
4. An american philosopher in the liberal tradition - had theory of justice as fairness
divine command theory
John Rawls
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
Professional Code of Ethics
5. Courage - magnanimity - ambition - friendship - generosity - fidelity - gratitude
Thomas Hobbes
Stage 5
John Rawls
natural virtues
6. Lists seven features of pleasure to which attention must be paid in order to assess how great it is
hedonic calculus
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
nonconsequentialist normative theory
Courage
7. Includes a good habit - a mean - and a disposition to act within reason
Deontology
Natural Law Theory
Socrates
Virtue
8. Punishment and reward - thinking is animalistic - actions are in ways that anticipate reward and avoid punishment
justice
Stage 1
heteronomy
paternalism
9. An agreement between two parties - but only one of the parties has to do something
unconditional
meta-ethics
heteronomy
Natural Law Theory
10. Competition over material good; general distrust; glory of powerful positions
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
Professional Code of Ethics
social contract theory
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
11. Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness
Kant
Standard of Happiness
corrective justice
Thomas Hobbes
12. Justice - promise-keeping - allegiance to legitimate government
Thucydides
artificial virtues
Moral virtue
Courage
13. According to Socrates this is the sufficient condition to the good life
Moral virtue
Act utilitarianism
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
Self-knowledge
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
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
justice
categorical imperatives
15. Practicality; help citizens orient themselves within their own social world; probe the limits of practicable political possibility; reconciliation
normative ethics
stoic moral virtues
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
16. 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
disclosure of information
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism
David Hume
17. Self-mastery according to Kant
Immanuel Kant
meta-ethics
Courage
primary purpose of the Leviathan
18. Genuin care for others (stages 3 and 4 of Kohlberg's hierarchy)
Enchiridion
heteronomy
Conventional level
St Thomas Aquinas
19. 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
Utilitarianism
conditional covenant
human nature
paternalism
20. Says we should always do the will of God
informed consent
Thomas Hobbes
nonconsequentialist normative theory
Post conventional level
21. Selfishness and lack of concern for other (contains first two stages of Kohlberg's hierarchy)
Pre-conventional level
natural virtues
Natural Law Theory
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
22. Egoism and exchange relationships - thinking is based on self-interest and how it can be achieved within relationships
Virtue
hedonic calculus
Stage 2
Ignorance
23. Moral character - a theory of morality that makes virtue the central concern
Virtue
Epictetus
feminist ethics
Virtue ethics
24. Disclosure of information - comprehension - voluntariness
heteronomy
teleology
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
components of informed consent
25. 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
primary purpose of the Leviathan
normative ethics
Virtue ethics
consequentialists
26. An attempt to revise - reformulate - or rethink traditional ethics to the extent it depreciates or devalues women's moral experience
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
conditional covenant
feminist ethics
Puffery
27. Intensity - duration - certainty - propinquity (nearness) - fecundity - purity - extent
Standards of disclosure
justice
seven features of pleasure
covenant
28. To punish subjects who break the law
autonomy
Stage 3
primary purpose of the Leviathan
St Thomas Aquinas
29. Talks about what punishments are appropriate for wrongdoing
Stage 6
Virtue
Leviathan
retributive justice
30. The first 5 books of the Old Testament
Ethics of care
Virtue ethics
The Books of Law
consequentialists
31. Disclosing information to outside sources without permission of the company regarding unethical practices
hedonic calculus
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
Whistle blowing
hypothetical imperatives
32. Morality based on religion alone - without any reference to religious ideas
Ignorance
Eternal law
Stage 5
autonomy
33. Written by Hobbes - morality consists of Laws of Nature
artificial virtues
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
Leviathan
retributive justice
34. We always ought to perform that act that leads to the most pleasure
paternalism
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
Self-knowledge
conflict of interest
35. Socrates believed that whatever action a man chooses is motivated for his desire for this
Happiness
John Locke
justice
autonomy
36. Morality and religion are thought to come from a common source of inspiration and knowledge - a source that religion may refer to as God
Virtue ethics
unconditional
theonomy
Self-knowledge
37. Live according to nature - according to rational principles which involve an emphasis on character and self-mastery - reason links all of society
Epictetus
Doctrine of Right
stoic moral virtues
Stoic philosphy
38. 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)
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
John Locke
Puffery
Post conventional level
39. The study of ends or final causes or purposes that things serve
teleology
autonomy
Golden Mean
Professional Code of Ethics
40. A contract or agreement between two parties to complete a task
Whistle blowing
Stage 6
covenant
Plato
41. Duties that form this subject matter are precise - owed to specifiable others - and can be legally enforced
Kant
Doctrine of Right
Leviathan
Conventional level
42. 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)
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
Stage 4
Utilitarianism
Moral virtue
43. Claim that all and only pleasure has worth or value and all and only pain has disvalue - happiness should be pursued
Courage
Doctrine of Right
normative hedonism
Deontology
44. The idea of avoiding extremes - you shouldn't do anything to excess
Golden Mean
The Gospels
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
seven features of pleasure
45. There is moral significance in the fundamental elements of relationships and dependencies in human life (care-givers)
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
Virtue ethics
Ethics of care
Epictetus
46. Morality depends on religious belief or on a set of values given by a religion
Stoic philosphy
heteronomy
nonconsequentialist normative theory
John Rawls
47. Process by which patients are asked to consent to procedures after being sufficiently informed to make a rational decision
informed consent
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
St Thomas Aquinas
distributive justice
48. Ethical responsibilites at work - avoiding conflicts of interest
Plato
primary purpose of the Leviathan
Professional Code of Ethics
natural virtues
49. God's device to govern the whole community of the universe towards the common good
Enchiridion
normative hedonism
Eternal law
Stage 6
50. Name the first 5 books of the Old Testament
The 3 branches of ethics
motivational hedonism
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
Stage 4