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DSST Ethics In America 2
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1. Four basic possible standards: Full Disclosure Standard - Subjective Standard - Customary Practice or Professional Standard - Reasonable Person Standard
artificial virtues
The Books of Law
Natural Law Theory
Standards of disclosure
2. 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
The Gospels
Ethics of care
John Stuart Mill
3. Tell you what to do in order to achieve a particular goal
The 3 branches of ethics
retributive justice
hypothetical imperatives
Socrates
4. Felt that ethics was born of human conflict
Epictetus
Stage 5
Happiness
Socrates
5. Punishment and reward - thinking is animalistic - actions are in ways that anticipate reward and avoid punishment
Virtue ethics
Stage 1
conflict of interest
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
6. Student of Socrates who suggested the good life is one of intelligence
Ethics of care
Plato
social contract theory
conditional covenant
7. Consent is the basis of government - people have agreed to be ruled that governments are entitled to rule
social contract theory
retributive justice
Thomas Hobbes
Virtue
8. Name the first 5 books of the Old Testament
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
stoic moral virtues
Whistle blowing
9. Descriptive - normative - meta-ethics
Deontology
Stage 4
Moral virtue
The 3 branches of ethics
10. Socrates believed that all wrong doing is a result of this
seven features of pleasure
Ethics
Ignorance
hypothetical imperatives
11. Claim that only pleasure or pain motivate us - most significant form of psychological hedonism
Ethics
Socrates
teleology
motivational hedonism
12. Fostering good interpersonal relationships - thinkers take the needs and interests of others into account - it is important to make others happy
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
components of informed consent
primary purpose of the Leviathan
Stage 3
13. Tell us what to do irrespective of our desires
Jeremy Bentham
divine command theory
categorical imperatives
Standard of Happiness
14. Morality depends on religious belief or on a set of values given by a religion
paternalism
heteronomy
meta-ethics
primary purpose of the Leviathan
15. God's device to govern the whole community of the universe towards the common good
virtues
Eternal law
unconditional
theory of justice as fairness
16. Selfishness and lack of concern for other (contains first two stages of Kohlberg's hierarchy)
Pre-conventional level
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
Self-knowledge
seven features of pleasure
17. Guide of moral conduct based on the principles of Stoicism
Enchiridion
Whistle blowing
Ethics
justice
18. Rights and Justice - concerned mostly with justice - being an ideal ethical thinker needs you to distance yourself from a situation to assess it clearly
categorical imperatives
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
Stage 1
Stage 6
19. Competition over material good; general distrust; glory of powerful positions
nonconsequentialist normative theory
hypothetical imperatives
Consent Form
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
20. Explores when and how to compensate someone for a loss
corrective justice
Natural Law Theory
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
unconditional
21. Claims that humans are naturally self-interested and they are not naturally selfish or motivated by pride
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
normative hedonism
theonomy
artificial virtues
22. 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
Puffery
Post conventional level
Thomas Hobbes
Ignorance
23. Disclosing relevant information regardng a medical diagnosis or treatment
disclosure of information
Standard of Happiness
covenant
feminist ethics
24. Egoism and exchange relationships - thinking is based on self-interest and how it can be achieved within relationships
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
Virtue ethics
Stage 2
Virtue
25. A generalized blueprint for the kind of entity you are
human nature
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
theory of justice as fairness
Utilitarianism
26. Talks about who should get which benefits and which burdens
conditional covenant
Pre-conventional level
distributive justice
heteronomy
27. Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness
Standard of Happiness
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
Doctrine of Virtue
Ethics of care
28. Courage - magnanimity - ambition - friendship - generosity - fidelity - gratitude
retributive justice
Aristotle
stoic moral virtues
natural virtues
29. Believed that morality consisted on acting on the basis of duty alone - the consequences of our actions are often out of our control
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
Consent Form
Kant
theory of justice as fairness
30. Things are morally good or bad - or morally obligatory - permissible - or prohibited - soley because of God's will or command
divine command theory
Socrates
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Standards of disclosure
31. A contract or agreement between two parties to complete a task
covenant
Act utilitarianism
Ignorance
Puffery
32. An attempt to revise - reformulate - or rethink traditional ethics to the extent it depreciates or devalues women's moral experience
feminist ethics
Eternal law
normative ethics
artificial virtues
33. Written by Hobbes - morality consists of Laws of Nature
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
Leviathan
stoic moral virtues
Thucydides
34. 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
Epictetus
Stage 3
Ethics of care
categorical imperatives
35. Socrates believed that whatever action a man chooses is motivated for his desire for this
natural virtues
justice
Happiness
Stage 2
36. An action is morally obligatory if it produces the most good for the most people
Leviathan
Jeremy Bentham
Act utilitarianism
Doctrine of Right
37. A hierarchy that tracked how people can move from lesser to a more sophisticated ethical reasoning
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38. Evidence of a valid consent
Golden Mean
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
Consent Form
39. Three Aristotelian principles followed by Aquinas
informed consent
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
Thomas Hobbes
The Gospels
40. Set of rules that produces the greatest amount of good for the most people
Deontology
rule utilitarianism
heteronomy
justice
41. 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
St Thomas Aquinas
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
conflict of interest
The Books of Law
42. This lays the groundwork for normative ethics - it deals with the nature of moral judgment. It looks at the origins of meaning of ethical principles. It studies the nature of morality and questions the abstract meaning of ethical terms
Stage 1
Stage 2
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
meta-ethics
43. Disclosure of information - comprehension - voluntariness
Whistle blowing
hypothetical imperatives
Jeremy Bentham
components of informed consent
44. We always ought to perform that act that leads to the most pleasure
Stoic philosphy
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
informed consent
45. Morality and religion are thought to come from a common source of inspiration and knowledge - a source that religion may refer to as God
theonomy
Golden Mean
Whistle blowing
Virtue
46. According to Socrates this is the sufficient condition to the good life
Happiness
John Rawls
Self-knowledge
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
47. Founder of Liberalism - believed that everybody must be moved by a desire for his or her own happiness or pleasure.
theory of justice as fairness
virtues
John Locke
Ethics of care
48. Way of evaluating moral decisions based on the amount of pleasure that it provides
Utilitarianism
seven features of pleasure
Courage
Stage 6
49. Wrote the History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
Descriptive ethics
conditional covenant
Aristotle
50. Believed that moral justification came from utility and good institutions produce good consequences (Hedonistic Utilitarianism)
teleology
distributive justice
Jeremy Bentham
John Stuart Mill
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