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Ethics Final
Final Exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Distributive justice | equitable or equal distribution of good or bad to human beings based on a just and fair basis. |
| Freedom | |
| Determinism | For every effect, event, or occurrence in reality, a cause or cause exists |
| Fatalism | belief that all events are fixed and predetermined an humans can not alter them in any way |
| Predestination | -religious view of determinism that God is all-powerful and all knowing, then He must have predestined everything that occurs. |
| Indeterminism | there is a certain amount of freedom not everything is caused: William James believes that our striving for good illustrated some human freedom. |
| What is Justice | |
| Retributive Justice | oldest form of justice; the idea that people get what they deserve, eye for an eye type of justice. |
| Reward | something given or received for a worthy behavior |
| How do we reward people? how do we decide who gets rewarded? | |
| Punishment | the act of penalizing someone for a wrong doing |
| Retribution | giving people what they deserve regardless of the consequences |
| Utilitarianism(result theory) | rewarding or punishing based on the result of an act |
| Restitution(compensation theory) | compensating someone who was a victim, usually the person doing the wrong doing/harm gives to the victim |
| John Rawl's Theory of Justice | that rights are given to people by a just society |
| Human Rights | natural rights to life and liberty belonging to all people, impacts how people should treat each other |
| The Value of life principle | principle states that human begins should revere life and accept death |
| The Principle of Goodness and Rightness | is ultimate to any moral system, and it requires that human beings attempt to do three things: – Promote goodness over badness and do good – Cause no harm or badness – Prevent badness or harm |
| The Principle of Justice and Fairness | – This is distributive justice, meaning that human beings should treat other human beings justly and fairly when attempting to distribute goodness and badness among them |
| The Principle of Truth Telling and Honesty | – Because it follows from the need to be fair and just in one’s dealings with others |
| The Principle of Individual Freedom | • Because each individual is the only one truly able to decide what is good for himself |
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