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DSST Ethics In America 2
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1. Making exagerated claims about products
normative ethics
consequentialists
Puffery
Conventional level
2. Practicality; help citizens orient themselves within their own social world; probe the limits of practicable political possibility; reconciliation
Eternal law
human nature
Virtue ethics
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
3. Includes a good habit - a mean - and a disposition to act within reason
Virtue
Natural Law Theory
distributive justice
motivational hedonism
4. Things are morally good or bad - or morally obligatory - permissible - or prohibited - soley because of God's will or command
paternalism
Kant
divine command theory
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
5. Divides moral philosophy into two domains - justice or law and ethics or virtue
rule utilitarianism
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
Immanuel Kant
Ethics of care
6. 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
Stoic philosphy
motivational hedonism
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
7. Way of evaluating moral decisions based on the amount of pleasure that it provides
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Utilitarianism
Jeremy Bentham
Deontology
8. Socrates believed that all wrong doing is a result of this
Ignorance
Self-knowledge
components of informed consent
virtues
9. View holds that the good for which all humans aspire is happiness - which is the activity of the soul
Ethics of care
seven features of pleasure
Standard of Happiness
Aristotle
10. A generalized blueprint for the kind of entity you are
theory of justice as fairness
Ethics of care
human nature
normative hedonism
11. 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)
conditional covenant
feminist ethics
Stage 4
social contract theory
12. Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness
Whistle blowing
Standard of Happiness
human nature
primary purpose of the Leviathan
13. Disclosure of information - comprehension - voluntariness
components of informed consent
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
Consent Form
categorical imperatives
14. Evidence of a valid consent
nonconsequentialist normative theory
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
Puffery
Consent Form
15. Reliable habits you engrave into your identity
Doctrine of Right
virtues
Happiness
Act utilitarianism
16. Says we should always do the will of God
nonconsequentialist normative theory
Whistle blowing
Leviathan
hedonic calculus
17. Duties that form this subject matter are precise - owed to specifiable others - and can be legally enforced
paternalism
Doctrine of Right
Enchiridion
David Hume
18. A hierarchy that tracked how people can move from lesser to a more sophisticated ethical reasoning
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19. There is moral significance in the fundamental elements of relationships and dependencies in human life (care-givers)
Ethics of care
Standard of Happiness
Natural Law Theory
Plato
20. Written by Hobbes - morality consists of Laws of Nature
Leviathan
Virtue
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
teleology
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
Thomas Hobbes
Whistle blowing
Self-knowledge
Epictetus
22. Social Contracts - think in terms of laws because of majority agreements
Professional Code of Ethics
Stage 5
Virtue ethics
Stage 1
23. Intensity - duration - certainty - propinquity (nearness) - fecundity - purity - extent
categorical imperatives
conditional covenant
seven features of pleasure
Stage 1
24. Four basic possible standards: Full Disclosure Standard - Subjective Standard - Customary Practice or Professional Standard - Reasonable Person Standard
Professional Code of Ethics
Standards of disclosure
heteronomy
divine command theory
25. According to Socrates this is the sufficient condition to the good life
hypothetical imperatives
categorical imperatives
The Gospels
Self-knowledge
26. When someone's work stands to serve an interest in conflict with his or her obligations as a professional
Deontologists
theory of justice as fairness
Stage 4
conflict of interest
27. Descriptive - normative - meta-ethics
The 3 branches of ethics
Conventional level
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
Whistle blowing
28. 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)
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
Post conventional level
Natural Law Theory
heteronomy
29. Explores when and how to compensate someone for a loss
Virtue ethics
corrective justice
virtues
retributive justice
30. Believed that moral justification came from utility and good institutions produce good consequences (Hedonistic Utilitarianism)
Thomas Hobbes
Jeremy Bentham
seven features of pleasure
rule utilitarianism
31. Self-mastery according to Kant
Whistle blowing
Courage
consequentialists
heteronomy
32. An agreement between two parties - but only one of the parties has to do something
Doctrine of Right
unconditional
meta-ethics
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
33. A contract or agreement between two parties to complete a task
covenant
categorical imperatives
heteronomy
theonomy
34. Punishment and reward - thinking is animalistic - actions are in ways that anticipate reward and avoid punishment
Stage 1
Stage 5
components of informed consent
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
35. 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
Self-knowledge
John Stuart Mill
Thomas Hobbes
hedonic calculus
36. Live according to nature - according to rational principles which involve an emphasis on character and self-mastery - reason links all of society
Stoic philosphy
John Locke
Stage 1
artificial virtues
37. Morality based on religion alone - without any reference to religious ideas
natural virtues
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
autonomy
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
38. An american philosopher in the liberal tradition - had theory of justice as fairness
paternalism
John Rawls
categorical imperatives
The Gospels
39. Disclosing relevant information regardng a medical diagnosis or treatment
disclosure of information
Virtue 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
conflict of interest
40. Tell you what to do in order to achieve a particular goal
Courage
Self-knowledge
Moral virtue
hypothetical imperatives
41. An attempt to revise - reformulate - or rethink traditional ethics to the extent it depreciates or devalues women's moral experience
Natural Law Theory
Aristotle
feminist ethics
corrective justice
42. Hold that choices and/or acts or intentions are to be morally assessed solely by the states of affairs they bring about
Ignorance
motivational hedonism
Puffery
consequentialists
43. Name the first 5 books of the Old Testament
Happiness
The Books of Law
Stoic philosphy
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
44. An agreement that is binding on both parties for its fulfillment
Ignorance
conditional covenant
Golden Mean
Descriptive ethics
45. Fostering good interpersonal relationships - thinkers take the needs and interests of others into account - it is important to make others happy
The Gospels
normative ethics
divine command theory
Stage 3
46. Competition over material good; general distrust; glory of powerful positions
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
artificial virtues
Moral virtue
Leviathan
47. Prudence - courage - justice - temperance
Aristotle
Deontologists
human nature
stoic moral virtues
48. Set of rules that produces the greatest amount of good for the most people
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Post conventional level
meta-ethics
rule utilitarianism
49. 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
teleology
Courage
primary purpose of the Leviathan
St Thomas Aquinas
50. Wrote the History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
Self-knowledge
Stage 4
covenant