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DSST Ethics In America 2
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1. Social Contracts - think in terms of laws because of majority agreements
The 3 branches of ethics
Deontologists
Vices
Stage 5
2. Disclosing relevant information regardng a medical diagnosis or treatment
disclosure of information
Conventional level
natural virtues
Thomas Hobbes
3. Consent is the basis of government - people have agreed to be ruled that governments are entitled to rule
Conventional level
The Books of Law
Utilitarianism
social contract theory
4. 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
David Hume
feminist ethics
Epictetus
conflict of interest
5. An agreement that is binding on both parties for its fulfillment
conditional covenant
Stage 1
Stage 4
meta-ethics
6. 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
artificial virtues
Ethics of care
Puffery
7. Humans pursue only their own self-interest; all people are equal; three natural causes of quarrel; natural condition of perpetual war; motivation for peace
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
Golden Mean
Thomas Hobbes
Thucydides
8. Divides moral philosophy into two domains - justice or law and ethics or virtue
Deontology
theonomy
normative hedonism
Immanuel Kant
9. Felt that ethics was born of human conflict
Socrates
Ethics of care
divine command theory
seven features of pleasure
10. System of moral principles - affects how people make decisionss and lead their lives
Ethics
Courage
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
natural virtues
11. Applied to determine on what basis scarce resources will be distributed or alternatively on what basis burdens will be distributed
Stoic philosphy
retributive justice
Vices
justice
12. Fostering good interpersonal relationships - thinkers take the needs and interests of others into account - it is important to make others happy
Post conventional level
Natural Law Theory
Eternal law
Stage 3
13. The view that there exists an eternal moral law that can be discovered through reason by looking at the nature of humanity and society
seven features of pleasure
Natural Law Theory
nonconsequentialist normative theory
Consent Form
14. Tell about the life and ministry of Jesus - in the New Testament
The Gospels
Enchiridion
Post conventional level
artificial virtues
15. An attempt to revise - reformulate - or rethink traditional ethics to the extent it depreciates or devalues women's moral experience
Socrates
feminist ethics
nonconsequentialist normative theory
justice
16. Bad character traits
Vices
David Hume
Puffery
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
17. 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 5
justice
Golden Mean
paternalism
18. 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
Immanuel Kant
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
social contract theory
19. Duties to adopt certain ends - many are imperfect in that they do not specify how - when - or for whom they should be achieved
Stage 3
Doctrine of Virtue
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
Jeremy Bentham
20. 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
Conventional level
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
conditional covenant
normative ethics
21. Punishment and reward - thinking is animalistic - actions are in ways that anticipate reward and avoid punishment
Stage 5
Stage 1
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
22. Self-mastery according to Kant
unconditional
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
Deontologists
Courage
23. Prudence - courage - justice - temperance
Stage 6
stoic moral virtues
Descriptive ethics
seven features of pleasure
24. When someone's work stands to serve an interest in conflict with his or her obligations as a professional
conflict of interest
theory of justice as fairness
unconditional
Eternal law
25. Socrates believed that all wrong doing is a result of this
Ignorance
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
Virtue
Enchiridion
26. Competition over material good; general distrust; glory of powerful positions
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
Stage 1
nonconsequentialist normative theory
meta-ethics
27. Justice - promise-keeping - allegiance to legitimate government
rule utilitarianism
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
artificial virtues
Descriptive ethics
28. Making exagerated claims about products
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
Descriptive ethics
Puffery
Happiness
29. Name the first 5 books of the Old Testament
Professional Code of Ethics
informed consent
Plato
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
30. View holds that the good for which all humans aspire is happiness - which is the activity of the soul
Professional Code of Ethics
Aristotle
Stage 5
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
31. Hold that choices and/or acts or intentions are to be morally assessed solely by the states of affairs they bring about
hypothetical imperatives
consequentialists
heteronomy
informed consent
32. 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
Pre-conventional level
normative hedonism
consequentialists
David Hume
33. Selfishness and lack of concern for other (contains first two stages of Kohlberg's hierarchy)
conditional covenant
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
Ethics
Pre-conventional level
34. There is moral significance in the fundamental elements of relationships and dependencies in human life (care-givers)
Doctrine of Right
Plato
Conventional level
Ethics of care
35. Live according to nature - according to rational principles which involve an emphasis on character and self-mastery - reason links all of society
Stoic philosphy
Golden Mean
informed consent
distributive justice
36. Student of Socrates who suggested the good life is one of intelligence
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
Conventional level
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
Plato
37. 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
Doctrine of Right
theory of justice as fairness
Standards of disclosure
St Thomas Aquinas
38. Evidence of a valid consent
Consent Form
teleology
Pre-conventional level
Whistle blowing
39. According to Socrates this is the sufficient condition to the good life
The Books of Law
Socrates
distributive justice
Self-knowledge
40. Courage - magnanimity - ambition - friendship - generosity - fidelity - gratitude
heteronomy
conditional covenant
natural virtues
Stage 1
41. Way of evaluating moral decisions based on the amount of pleasure that it provides
Stage 6
unconditional
Utilitarianism
Leviathan
42. Should a whole society be responsible for the actions of a few? What are the justifications of any actions against an enemy?
Leviathan
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
Enchiridion
human nature
43. To punish subjects who break the law
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
primary purpose of the Leviathan
Descriptive ethics
Consent Form
44. An agreement between two parties - but only one of the parties has to do something
unconditional
Jeremy Bentham
Aristotle
The 3 branches of ethics
45. Describes the ethical standards of a person - community - culture - etc. (controversial topics)
Epictetus
Descriptive ethics
Aristotle
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
46. Tell us what to do irrespective of our desires
Conventional level
Stage 2
categorical imperatives
Virtue
47. Envisions a society of free citizens holding equal basic rights of cooperating within an egalitarian economic system
social contract theory
Enchiridion
primary purpose of the Leviathan
theory of justice as fairness
48. Believe that right and good consist in obedience to objective moral duties
Vices
The Gospels
Deontologists
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
49. Moral character - a theory of morality that makes virtue the central concern
motivational hedonism
John Stuart Mill
Virtue ethics
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
50. Practicality; help citizens orient themselves within their own social world; probe the limits of practicable political possibility; reconciliation
categorical imperatives
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
normative ethics
Leviathan