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DSST Ethics In America 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. God's device to govern the whole community of the universe towards the common good
Organization of social classes in an ideal society
Eternal law
Socrates
Standards of disclosure
2. The study of ends or final causes or purposes that things serve
Happiness
John Locke
teleology
distributive justice
3. Envisions a society of free citizens holding equal basic rights of cooperating within an egalitarian economic system
Leviathan
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
Doctrine of Virtue
theory of justice as fairness
4. We always ought to perform that act that leads to the most pleasure
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
conflict of interest
nonconsequentialist normative theory
natural virtues
5. Competition over material good; general distrust; glory of powerful positions
Virtue ethics
motivational hedonism
distributive justice
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
6. The view that there exists an eternal moral law that can be discovered through reason by looking at the nature of humanity and society
Post conventional level
Pre-conventional level
Stage 6
Natural Law Theory
7. An action is morally obligatory if it produces the most good for the most people
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
Standard of Happiness
Act utilitarianism
disclosure of information
8. The idea of avoiding extremes - you shouldn't do anything to excess
theonomy
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Golden Mean
nonconsequentialist normative theory
9. Claim that all and only pleasure has worth or value and all and only pain has disvalue - happiness should be pursued
seven features of pleasure
heteronomy
Puffery
normative hedonism
10. Disclosing relevant information regardng a medical diagnosis or treatment
disclosure of information
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
covenant
Descriptive ethics
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)
Happiness
Stage 4
hedonic calculus
paternalism
12. 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)
informed consent
Post conventional level
Plato
Conventional level
13. Making exagerated claims about products
Consent Form
Puffery
conditional covenant
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
14. An american philosopher in the liberal tradition - had theory of justice as fairness
John Rawls
Aristotle
virtues
Vices
15. Tell you what to do in order to achieve a particular goal
feminist ethics
Standards of disclosure
Doctrine of Right
hypothetical imperatives
16. Wrote the History of the Peloponnesian War
consequentialists
Thucydides
hedonic calculus
Act utilitarianism
17. Duties that form this subject matter are precise - owed to specifiable others - and can be legally enforced
five general principles the 15 laws of nature come from
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
corrective justice
Doctrine of Right
18. 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
Stoic philosphy
David Hume
The Gospels
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
19. Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
artificial virtues
Ethics
Standard of Happiness
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
hedonic calculus
normative ethics
justice
distributive justice
21. Live according to nature - according to rational principles which involve an emphasis on character and self-mastery - reason links all of society
Ignorance
Happiness
Thucydides
Stoic philosphy
22. Duties to adopt certain ends - many are imperfect in that they do not specify how - when - or for whom they should be achieved
Thucydides
Natural Law Theory
Doctrine of Virtue
Ethics of care
23. Student of Socrates who suggested the good life is one of intelligence
Consent Form
Self-knowledge
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
Plato
24. Tell about the life and ministry of Jesus - in the New Testament
The Gospels
John Locke
Puffery
St Thomas Aquinas
25. Punishment and reward - thinking is animalistic - actions are in ways that anticipate reward and avoid punishment
Stage 1
Vices
categorical imperatives
consequentialists
26. There is moral significance in the fundamental elements of relationships and dependencies in human life (care-givers)
Ethics of care
normative hedonism
Deontologists
autonomy
27. Evidence of a valid consent
Epictetus
Leviathan
Consent Form
Ignorance
28. Applied to determine on what basis scarce resources will be distributed or alternatively on what basis burdens will be distributed
justice
The Books of Law
Virtue
Doctrine of Right
29. Fostering good interpersonal relationships - thinkers take the needs and interests of others into account - it is important to make others happy
disclosure of information
corrective justice
Stage 3
stoic moral virtues
30. Includes a good habit - a mean - and a disposition to act within reason
categorical imperatives
Hedonistic Utilitarianism
Virtue
Vices
31. Courage - magnanimity - ambition - friendship - generosity - fidelity - gratitude
natural virtues
Deontology
normative ethics
Conventional level
32. Things are morally good or bad - or morally obligatory - permissible - or prohibited - soley because of God's will or command
Kohlberg's six stages of moral development
human nature
divine command theory
John Rawls
33. Founder of Liberalism - believed that everybody must be moved by a desire for his or her own happiness or pleasure.
John Locke
The 3 branches of ethics
Virtue
St Thomas Aquinas
34. Rights and Justice - concerned mostly with justice - being an ideal ethical thinker needs you to distance yourself from a situation to assess it clearly
consequentialists
Stage 6
David Hume
The Gospels
35. Felt that ethics was born of human conflict
Socrates
Matthew - Mark - Luke - and John
Kant
Ethics
36. A hierarchy that tracked how people can move from lesser to a more sophisticated ethical reasoning
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37. A generalized blueprint for the kind of entity you are
Stage 1
Eternal law
human nature
Doctrine of Virtue
38. 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
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
hedonic calculus
theonomy
39. Socrates believed that whatever action a man chooses is motivated for his desire for this
Standard of Happiness
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War
Happiness
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
40. Reliable habits you engrave into your identity
theonomy
primary purpose of the Leviathan
virtues
Enchiridion
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
Thucydides
Courage
St Thomas Aquinas
primary purpose of the Leviathan
42. Name the first 5 books of the Old Testament
Genesis -Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers - Deuteronomy
components of informed consent
conflict of interest
Stage 1
43. An agreement between two parties - but only one of the parties has to do something
unconditional
heteronomy
Standards of disclosure
categorical imperatives
44. To punish subjects who break the law
Enchiridion
primary purpose of the Leviathan
feminist ethics
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
45. Believe that right and good consist in obedience to objective moral duties
divine command theory
Deontologists
autonomy
hedonic calculus
46. Socrates believed that all wrong doing is a result of this
Ignorance
three natural reasons people fight according to Hobbes
artificial virtues
corrective justice
47. Claim that only pleasure or pain motivate us - most significant form of psychological hedonism
motivational hedonism
distributive justice
Thucydides
human nature
48. Morality depends on religious belief or on a set of values given by a religion
theonomy
meta-ethics
human nature
heteronomy
49. Descriptive - normative - meta-ethics
Self-knowledge
hypothetical imperatives
Ethics of care
The 3 branches of ethics
50. Process by which patients are asked to consent to procedures after being sufficiently informed to make a rational decision
hedonic calculus
informed consent
artificial virtues
issues addressed in the History of the Peloponnesian War