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DSST Ethics In America 2
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1. 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)
Natural Law Theory
Kant
John Stuart Mill
corrective justice
2. Believed that morality consisted on acting on the basis of duty alone - the consequences of our actions are often out of our control
disclosure of information
retributive justice
Socrates
Kant
3. Self-mastery according to Kant
normative ethics
Courage
Eternal law
David Hume
4. An american philosopher in the liberal tradition - had theory of justice as fairness
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
Ethics of care
John Rawls
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
5. 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
paternalism
Stoic philosphy
John Rawls
Whistle blowing
6. A generalized blueprint for the kind of entity you are
Kant
human nature
Natural Law Theory
Ethics of care
7. Moral character - a theory of morality that makes virtue the central concern
Jeremy Bentham
Deontology
unconditional
Virtue ethics
8. A hierarchy that tracked how people can move from lesser to a more sophisticated ethical reasoning
9. Morality based on religion alone - without any reference to religious ideas
autonomy
normative hedonism
categorical imperatives
components of informed consent
10. Humans pursue only their own self-interest; all people are equal; three natural causes of quarrel; natural condition of perpetual war; motivation for peace
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
stoic moral virtues
conflict of interest
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
11. Includes a good habit - a mean - and a disposition to act within reason
categorical imperatives
Act utilitarianism
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
Virtue
12. Intensity - duration - certainty - propinquity (nearness) - fecundity - purity - extent
The Books of Law
seven features of pleasure
primary purpose of the Leviathan
Virtue ethics
13. To punish subjects who break the law
Doctrine of Virtue
retributive justice
primary purpose of the Leviathan
covenant
14. Way of evaluating moral decisions based on the amount of pleasure that it provides
virtues
normative ethics
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
Utilitarianism
15. Student of Socrates who suggested the good life is one of intelligence
disclosure of information
Plato
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
Natural Law Theory
16. Tell you what to do in order to achieve a particular goal
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
Eternal law
hypothetical imperatives
Kant
17. Talks about who should get which benefits and which burdens
distributive justice
justice
Immanuel Kant
The Books of Law
18. 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
Act utilitarianism
meta-ethics
Ethics
stoic moral virtues
19. Written by Hobbes - morality consists of Laws of Nature
Leviathan
normative ethics
paternalism
Plato
20. Things are morally good or bad - or morally obligatory - permissible - or prohibited - soley because of God's will or command
The Books of Law
divine command theory
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
Doctrine of Virtue
21. The view that there exists an eternal moral law that can be discovered through reason by looking at the nature of humanity and society
Doctrine of Right
Jeremy Bentham
Natural Law Theory
retributive justice
22. 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)
Moral virtue
paternalism
Utilitarianism
Post conventional level
23. Guide of moral conduct based on the principles of Stoicism
teleology
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Enchiridion
Standards of disclosure
24. Founder of Liberalism - believed that everybody must be moved by a desire for his or her own happiness or pleasure.
Self-knowledge
John Locke
Virtue
seven features of pleasure
25. An attempt to revise - reformulate - or rethink traditional ethics to the extent it depreciates or devalues women's moral experience
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
feminist ethics
Moral virtue
justice
26. View holds that the good for which all humans aspire is happiness - which is the activity of the soul
Ignorance
Aristotle
human nature
Post conventional level
27. Consent is the basis of government - people have agreed to be ruled that governments are entitled to rule
Deontologists
natural virtues
social contract theory
Immanuel Kant
28. Wrote the History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
conflict of interest
Whistle blowing
Courage
29. Name the four authors of the Gospels
social contract theory
John Locke
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
St Thomas Aquinas
30. Morality and religion are thought to come from a common source of inspiration and knowledge - a source that religion may refer to as God
Stage 4
Socrates
theonomy
corrective justice
31. Process by which patients are asked to consent to procedures after being sufficiently informed to make a rational decision
informed consent
theonomy
feminist ethics
Natural Law Theory
32. Explores when and how to compensate someone for a loss
Aristotle
Epictetus
Virtue
corrective justice
33. Name the first 5 books of the Old Testament
heteronomy
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
John Stuart Mill
34. Envisions a society of free citizens holding equal basic rights of cooperating within an egalitarian economic system
theory of justice as fairness
John Stuart Mill
Leviathan
Thucydides
35. Courage - magnanimity - ambition - friendship - generosity - fidelity - gratitude
Standard of Happiness
Doctrine of Right
natural virtues
Eternal law
36. Tell us what to do irrespective of our desires
conflict of interest
John Locke
categorical imperatives
conditional covenant
37. Fostering good interpersonal relationships - thinkers take the needs and interests of others into account - it is important to make others happy
stoic moral virtues
Stage 3
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
Aristotle
38. Disclosing information to outside sources without permission of the company regarding unethical practices
categorical imperatives
Doctrine of Right
Whistle blowing
Aristotle
39. A relative mean between extremes of excess and deficiency - ini general a life of moderation in all things except virtue
normative ethics
conflict of interest
Moral virtue
Thucydides
40. Selfishness and lack of concern for other (contains first two stages of Kohlberg's hierarchy)
Pre-conventional level
Jeremy Bentham
John Rawls
seven features of pleasure
41. Duties that form this subject matter are precise - owed to specifiable others - and can be legally enforced
Utilitarianism
Doctrine of Right
Stage 6
paternalism
42. Rights and Justice - concerned mostly with justice - being an ideal ethical thinker needs you to distance yourself from a situation to assess it clearly
Golden Mean
Stage 1
Stage 6
disclosure of information
43. Practicality; help citizens orient themselves within their own social world; probe the limits of practicable political possibility; reconciliation
Puffery
Conventional level
Thomas Hobbes
four roles of political philosophy according to rawls
44. Claim that all and only pleasure has worth or value and all and only pain has disvalue - happiness should be pursued
human nature
Standards of disclosure
normative hedonism
seven features of pleasure
45. Hold that choices and/or acts or intentions are to be morally assessed solely by the states of affairs they bring about
Virtue
Ethics
consequentialists
John Rawls
46. An agreement that is binding on both parties for its fulfillment
The Gospels
theonomy
conditional covenant
autonomy
47. Reliable habits you engrave into your identity
virtues
Eternal law
Enchiridion
Stage 6
48. Believe that right and good consist in obedience to objective moral duties
Deontologists
components of informed consent
Leviathan
John Locke
49. Should a whole society be responsible for the actions of a few? What are the justifications of any actions against an enemy?
Epictetus
hedonic calculus
primary purpose of the Leviathan
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
50. Disclosing relevant information regardng a medical diagnosis or treatment
disclosure of information
Stage 2
Leviathan
Stoic philosphy