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DSST Ethics In America 2
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1. An agreement that is binding on both parties for its fulfillment
conditional covenant
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 2
Natural Law Theory
2. Set of rules that produces the greatest amount of good for the most people
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
rule utilitarianism
Socrates
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
3. Talks about what punishments are appropriate for wrongdoing
Moral virtue
retributive justice
social contract theory
Kant
4. Rights and Justice - concerned mostly with justice - being an ideal ethical thinker needs you to distance yourself from a situation to assess it clearly
Vices
Descriptive ethics
Stage 6
Stage 4
5. According to Socrates this is the sufficient condition to the good life
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
Self-knowledge
Virtue
Happiness
6. Competition over material good; general distrust; glory of powerful positions
Stage 2
conditional covenant
St Thomas Aquinas
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
7. Consent is the basis of government - people have agreed to be ruled that governments are entitled to rule
Stage 1
David Hume
artificial virtues
social contract theory
8. There is moral significance in the fundamental elements of relationships and dependencies in human life (care-givers)
retributive justice
Golden Mean
natural virtues
Ethics of care
9. Claim that only pleasure or pain motivate us - most significant form of psychological hedonism
justice
Eternal law
motivational hedonism
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
10. Making exagerated claims about products
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
normative ethics
Puffery
11. Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness
Standard of Happiness
conflict of interest
The Books of Law
Jeremy Bentham
12. An american philosopher in the liberal tradition - had theory of justice as fairness
Leviathan
Jeremy Bentham
Stoic philosphy
John Rawls
13. Courage - magnanimity - ambition - friendship - generosity - fidelity - gratitude
natural virtues
Stage 4
Golden Mean
Stage 1
14. We always ought to perform that act that leads to the most pleasure
Socrates
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
hypothetical imperatives
categorical imperatives
15. Socrates believed that all wrong doing is a result of this
Aristotle
Ignorance
Consent Form
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
16. 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
Virtue
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
17. Talks about who should get which benefits and which burdens
distributive justice
Post conventional level
Courage
disclosure of information
18. Includes a good habit - a mean - and a disposition to act within reason
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
Virtue
seven features of pleasure
Virtue ethics
19. A contract or agreement between two parties to complete a task
disclosure of information
Aristotle
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
covenant
20. Way of evaluating moral decisions based on the amount of pleasure that it provides
Standards of disclosure
Utilitarianism
Self-knowledge
Golden Mean
21. 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
Descriptive ethics
Self-knowledge
Ignorance
Epictetus
22. Genuin care for others (stages 3 and 4 of Kohlberg's hierarchy)
Conventional level
distributive justice
Happiness
conflict of interest
23. Tell about the life and ministry of Jesus - in the New Testament
John Stuart Mill
Ethics of care
The Gospels
Deontologists
24. Divides moral philosophy into two domains - justice or law and ethics or virtue
Immanuel Kant
Whistle blowing
justice
feminist ethics
25. A hierarchy that tracked how people can move from lesser to a more sophisticated ethical reasoning
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26. Ethical responsibilites at work - avoiding conflicts of interest
Professional Code of Ethics
David Hume
motivational hedonism
hypothetical imperatives
27. 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)
Thomas Hobbes
disclosure of information
covenant
Post conventional level
28. Lists seven features of pleasure to which attention must be paid in order to assess how great it is
Stage 1
hedonic calculus
Standards of disclosure
Thucydides
29. Applied to determine on what basis scarce resources will be distributed or alternatively on what basis burdens will be distributed
Stage 2
retributive justice
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
justice
30. Socrates believed that whatever action a man chooses is motivated for his desire for this
disclosure of information
Moral virtue
Happiness
stoic moral virtues
31. God's device to govern the whole community of the universe towards the common good
John Locke
heteronomy
Eternal law
corrective justice
32. Descriptive - normative - meta-ethics
Stoic philosphy
Ethics
Utilitarianism
The 3 branches of ethics
33. Written by Hobbes - morality consists of Laws of Nature
Virtue ethics
Leviathan
Pre-conventional level
Stoic philosphy
34. Describes the ethical standards of a person - community - culture - etc. (controversial topics)
Descriptive ethics
The Books of Law
heteronomy
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
35. The first 5 books of the Old Testament
The 3 branches of ethics
The Books of Law
Doctrine of Right
Puffery
36. Tell us what to do irrespective of our desires
Moral virtue
Puffery
Happiness
categorical imperatives
37. The study of ends or final causes or purposes that things serve
teleology
Stage 5
social contract theory
Plato
38. Should a whole society be responsible for the actions of a few? What are the justifications of any actions against an enemy?
distributive justice
Natural Law Theory
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
Stage 3
39. Four basic possible standards: Full Disclosure Standard - Subjective Standard - Customary Practice or Professional Standard - Reasonable Person Standard
covenant
heteronomy
Standard of Happiness
Standards of disclosure
40. Envisions a society of free citizens holding equal basic rights of cooperating within an egalitarian economic system
theory of justice as fairness
Self-knowledge
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
Happiness
41. Morality and religion are thought to come from a common source of inspiration and knowledge - a source that religion may refer to as God
Happiness
theonomy
Socrates
Act utilitarianism
42. Fostering good interpersonal relationships - thinkers take the needs and interests of others into account - it is important to make others happy
Standards of disclosure
Plato
conflict of interest
Stage 3
43. Plato believed the organization of the soul of a good person is similiar to this
nonconsequentialist normative theory
natural virtues
Utilitarianism
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
44. 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
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
meta-ethics
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
Whistle blowing
45. Bad character traits
Vices
Stoic philosphy
John Locke
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
46. Reliable habits you engrave into your identity
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
virtues
Socrates
Enchiridion
47. Egoism and exchange relationships - thinking is based on self-interest and how it can be achieved within relationships
heteronomy
components of informed consent
hypothetical imperatives
Stage 2
48. Felt that ethics was born of human conflict
teleology
Moral virtue
Socrates
Standard of Happiness
49. View holds that the good for which all humans aspire is happiness - which is the activity of the soul
artificial virtues
Aristotle
theonomy
seven features of pleasure
50. Justice - promise-keeping - allegiance to legitimate government
teleology
Aristotle
nonconsequentialist normative theory
artificial virtues
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