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DSST Ethics In America 2
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1. Plato believed the organization of the soul of a good person is similiar to this
heteronomy
theory of justice as fairness
Stage 1
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
2. 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)
Conventional level
corrective justice
Aristotle
Post conventional level
3. Tell us what to do irrespective of our desires
conflict of interest
feminist ethics
Stoic philosphy
categorical imperatives
4. Claim that only pleasure or pain motivate us - most significant form of psychological hedonism
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
autonomy
normative ethics
motivational hedonism
5. Genuin care for others (stages 3 and 4 of Kohlberg's hierarchy)
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
Conventional level
meta-ethics
Natural Law Theory
6. An action is morally obligatory if it produces the most good for the most people
Act utilitarianism
seven features of pleasure
Stage 5
natural virtues
7. Bad character traits
Act utilitarianism
divine command theory
Doctrine of Virtue
Vices
8. Morality depends on religious belief or on a set of values given by a religion
Stage 6
heteronomy
conflict of interest
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
9. 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
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
hypothetical imperatives
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
St Thomas Aquinas
10. Consent is the basis of government - people have agreed to be ruled that governments are entitled to rule
social contract theory
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
Standard of Happiness
Ethics of care
11. Name the four authors of the Gospels
Utilitarianism
conflict of interest
Standards of disclosure
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
12. Should a whole society be responsible for the actions of a few? What are the justifications of any actions against an enemy?
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
social contract theory
Consent Form
consequentialists
13. The study of ends or final causes or purposes that things serve
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
natural virtues
teleology
Virtue ethics
14. 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 Stuart Mill
Thomas Hobbes
The 3 branches of ethics
Courage
15. To punish subjects who break the law
primary purpose of the Leviathan
Socrates
components of informed consent
Enchiridion
16. Moral character - a theory of morality that makes virtue the central concern
hedonic calculus
Virtue ethics
Vices
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
17. An agreement between two parties - but only one of the parties has to do something
Stage 5
The Books of Law
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
unconditional
18. Socrates believed that all wrong doing is a result of this
Stage 4
Ignorance
Thucydides
John Locke
19. According to Socrates this is the sufficient condition to the good life
Ethics
justice
Self-knowledge
unconditional
20. Evidence of a valid consent
Consent Form
Deontology
Natural Law Theory
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
21. Tell about the life and ministry of Jesus - in the New Testament
The 3 branches of ethics
teleology
Epictetus
The Gospels
22. When someone's work stands to serve an interest in conflict with his or her obligations as a professional
unconditional
conflict of interest
Post conventional level
The 3 branches of ethics
23. Intensity - duration - certainty - propinquity (nearness) - fecundity - purity - extent
Standard of Happiness
seven features of pleasure
Immanuel Kant
conflict of interest
24. The first 5 books of the Old Testament
Whistle blowing
The Books of Law
Ethics of care
The Gospels
25. Descriptive - normative - meta-ethics
paternalism
The 3 branches of ethics
normative ethics
Ethics of care
26. Applied to determine on what basis scarce resources will be distributed or alternatively on what basis burdens will be distributed
justice
Stage 2
autonomy
Utilitarianism
27. Morality based on religion alone - without any reference to religious ideas
components of informed consent
social contract theory
autonomy
Happiness
28. Believed that moral justification came from utility and good institutions produce good consequences (Hedonistic Utilitarianism)
conflict of interest
Standard of Happiness
Ignorance
Jeremy Bentham
29. Prudence - courage - justice - temperance
Professional Code of Ethics
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
stoic moral virtues
autonomy
30. Claim that all and only pleasure has worth or value and all and only pain has disvalue - happiness should be pursued
normative hedonism
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
paternalism
Doctrine of Virtue
31. Talks about who should get which benefits and which burdens
distributive justice
Aristotle
Epictetus
normative ethics
32. Wrote the History of the Peloponnesian War
corrective justice
Thucydides
The Books of Law
distributive justice
33. 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
heteronomy
Conventional level
John Stuart Mill
34. Talks about what punishments are appropriate for wrongdoing
Thomas Hobbes
meta-ethics
retributive justice
stoic moral virtues
35. Claims that humans are naturally self-interested and they are not naturally selfish or motivated by pride
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Enchiridion
Self-knowledge
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
36. View holds that the good for which all humans aspire is happiness - which is the activity of the soul
feminist ethics
informed consent
Aristotle
Professional Code of Ethics
37. Set of rules that produces the greatest amount of good for the most people
rule utilitarianism
Stoic philosphy
Ignorance
virtues
38. Things are morally good or bad - or morally obligatory - permissible - or prohibited - soley because of God's will or command
components of informed consent
human nature
The 3 branches of ethics
divine command theory
39. 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
Thomas Hobbes
Doctrine of Virtue
Eternal law
normative hedonism
40. God's device to govern the whole community of the universe towards the common good
Eternal law
Doctrine of Virtue
Aristotle
categorical imperatives
41. An agreement that is binding on both parties for its fulfillment
Thucydides
conditional covenant
consequentialists
feminist ethics
42. Guide of moral conduct based on the principles of Stoicism
seven features of pleasure
Post conventional level
Enchiridion
virtues
43. Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness
The 3 branches of ethics
Stage 1
John Rawls
Standard of Happiness
44. Selfishness and lack of concern for other (contains first two stages of Kohlberg's hierarchy)
Pre-conventional level
conflict of interest
John Locke
Professional Code of Ethics
45. Includes a good habit - a mean - and a disposition to act within reason
rule utilitarianism
distributive justice
Virtue
John Rawls
46. Disclosing relevant information regardng a medical diagnosis or treatment
Act utilitarianism
disclosure of information
Socrates
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
47. We always ought to perform that act that leads to the most pleasure
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
Natural Law Theory
Virtue
conditional covenant
48. Rights and Justice - concerned mostly with justice - being an ideal ethical thinker needs you to distance yourself from a situation to assess it clearly
retributive justice
Jeremy Bentham
Stage 6
Standards of disclosure
49. Practicality; help citizens orient themselves within their own social world; probe the limits of practicable political possibility; reconciliation
Ethics
teleology
consequentialists
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
50. An attempt to revise - reformulate - or rethink traditional ethics to the extent it depreciates or devalues women's moral experience
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
Leviathan
feminist ethics
nonconsequentialist normative theory