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Ethics Assessment

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Ethics   The study of moral values and conduct of an individual, group, or culture  
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Morality   The right or wrong of an action, decision, or way of living  
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Earliest Known Ethical Writings   The Epic of Gilamesh, Code of Hammurabi, The Book of the Dead, Torah  
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Democritus   'Laughing Philosopher' Emphasis on the value of cheerfulness, Believed that happiness stemmed from an even temperment and from a life of moderation  
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Sophists   argued for a moral philosophy of relativism, one based on self-interest  
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Relativism   Conduct or morals cannot be reduced to concepts or principles. It isn't possible to know the 'true' nature of anything because perceptions differ from person to person  
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Socrates   Believed that knowledge and virtue are one. Justice cannot mean harming others. Striving for good is the condition of all humans and the soul is a person's conscious personality  
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Plato   Saw morality as a quest to live by virtues in an attempt to recapture the forms  
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Forms   the ideal essences of objects or things  
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Plato's virtues   Courage, Justice, Temperance, Wisdom  
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Aristotle   Advocated living by the Golden Mean. Considered his list of preferred virtues as a mean between extremes. Achieving this midpoint was a way to live well.  
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The Golden Mean   the desirable middle between two extremes, excess and inadequacy.  
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Epicureanism   The greatest good comes from the pursuit of pleasure  
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Skepticism   Maintained that human knowledge was limited and uncertain.  
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Stoicism   Valued courage and acceptance of one's role in life.  
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Neoplatonism   Believed that salvation could be found in a mystical union with God.  
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3 Main Sophists   Protagoras, Gorgias, and Thrasymachus  
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Sophists/'Intellectuals'   Nothing exists. Man is the measure of all things. "Injustice pays"; might makes right. Based on self-interest  
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Socratic philosophy   Knowledge and virtue are one. Justice cannot mean harming others. Evil, vice are based on ignorance. Striving for good is the condition of all humans. The soul is a person's conscious personality.  
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Three Components of Plato's Philosophy   theories of Knowledge, Moral Philosophy, and Political Philosophy  
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Plat's virtues   Temperance, Courage, Reason and Justice  
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Aristotle's additional virtues   Generosity, Good Temper, Friendship, Self Respect, Honor, Shame, Pride, Truthfulness  
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Plato thought if we practiced the virtues, we could achieve   Justice  
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Epicureanism   saw pleasure as the greatest good.  
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Stoics   argued that self-control and fortitude are a way of mastering destructive emotions.  
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Religion   An organized system of beliefs regarding the spiritual or metaphysical world, generally offering a moral code, and a philosophy of life.  
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Divine Command Theory   Advances the idea that morality is whatever God commands. God's will becomes the foundation of ethics. Morality depends on God.  
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Natural Law   Maintains that God, or nature, has established universal laws and principles from which the norms of all human behavior must be derived.  
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Jawaharlal Nehro   Major political leader of the Congress. Party-Pivotal figure in the Indian Independence movement. First Prime Minister of Independent India.  
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Mohandas K. Gandhi   Major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. Believed in non-violence.  
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Mao Tse-tung   Chinese militay and political leader. Led Communist Part of China to victory against the Kuomintang in the Chinese Civil War. Leader of the People's Republic of China from it's establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.  
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Chiang Kai Shek   Served as Generalissimo of Republic of China from 1928-death. Took control of KMT after Yat-sen's death in 1925. Led nationalist troops to unify China.  
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Sun Yat-sen   Chinese revolutionary and political leader. "Leader of Modern China" Played large role in fall of Qing Dynasty. First provisional president when the Republic of China was founded in 1912.  
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Supports the Classical Utilitarian Theory   The principle of utility determines morality.  
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Supports the Classical Utilitarian Theory   A moral act produces the greatest happiness.  
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Supports the Classical Utilitarian Theory   Laws should promote the greatest happiness of all.  
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Does not support the Classical Utilitarian Theory   It is wrong to kill innocent people.  
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Does not support the Classical Utilitarian Theory   No act may be prohibited unless it causes pain to another.  
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Does not support the Classical Utilitarian Theory   God is in control and establishes morality.  
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According to Utilitarianism....   Actions are permissable if they promote the greater good.  
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Strength of Social Contract Ethics   Acceptance of the rules is based on others agreeing to them.  
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Strength of Social Contract Ethics   People have moral oblications only to participants in the contract.  
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Strength of Social Contract Ethics   The principle of reciprocity explains how criminals are to be treated  
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Strength of Social Contract Ethics   It explains when violations of law may be justified.  
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Weakness of Social Contract Ethics   There my be prohibitions against acts that do not threaten social living.  
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Weakness of Social Contract Ethics   It is based on an assumption about prehistorical humans.  
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What is the moral theory of Hobbe's social contract?   A person's right flow from mutually beneficial contraints  
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Christ transforming culture   Seeks to influence but not necessarily to control institutions  
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Christ above culture   Triumpalist Church which seek control over public life  
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Christ and culture in paradox   Makes a sharp separation between God's kindly rule in the Church and His stern rule in public life  
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Christ of culture   Casts a gospel glow over the existing order and hardly challenges it  
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Dilemmas created by applyin Scriptures to contemporary social issues   Does not always provide specific moral guidance in text. Often quoted without context. Does not yield definite answers to social problems.  
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Distinctive features of Utilitarianism as a form of modern moral philosophy   Favors greatest happiness for greatest number of people. Defines morality by examining consequences rather than intentions of actions, yields conclusions that do not conform to common sense.  
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Gandhian Ethics   Known for its practical wisdom  
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Jaina Ethics   Perceives all ethics by reference to monastic ethics. Known for its extreme measures in the pursuite of ahimsa (non-injury)  
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Classical Hindu   Teaches the principle of passive restraint. Founded in a rigid and discriminatory class system where a life affirming, but rigidly, authoritarian, morality is developed.  
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Theory of Natural Law   Based on the perspective that nature is purposeful. Describes both what is and what ought to be. The right course of action follows the dictates of reason.  
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Problems the Divine Command Theory presents   Humans should be truthful only because God commands it. The concepts of good and evil are arbitrarily dependant on God's rules.  
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Advantage of using virtues as ethical standards   They take into consideration that all people are not morally equal  
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Ideas that Aristotle advocated   No one would choose to live without friends. Virtues emerge independant of education. People need courage because no one is completely safe from danger. A virtue is the mean between excess and deficiency.  
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What did Socrates believe regarding 'Right Action'?   It must be rational and consistent with self interest.  
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Cultural Relativism   Belief that morality is relative to each individual culture, we can't make uniersal moral claims like 'murder is always wrong'  
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Christ against culture   A kind of other world pietism  
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Neihbor's 5 attributes of Christiam history   Christ against culture, Christ of culture, Christ and culture in paradox, Christ above culture, Christ transforming culture  
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4 relative stages of Ashrama   Studentship, Householder, Semi-retreat, Renunciation  
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Studentship   Requiring disciplines, continence, and dedication to the teacher  
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Householder   Entailing marriage, family, and their obligations  
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Virtue   Moral excellence or having the courage to do what is right  
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According to Kant, what are some of our basic duties?   Always tell the truth, always keep your promises, Never commit suicide.  
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What are the differences between retributiviam (Kant) and Utilitarian (Betham)?   Kant believed an eye for an eye. Betham believed punishment is mischief and is a greater evil but is justifiable.  
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Major points critical of Kant's ethics   Consequentialism, Utilitarianism  
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According to Kant, what is morality about?   Following absolute rules without exception  
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Kant's Theory   Our duty is to follow rules that we would consistently will to be universal laws, rules that we are willing to have followed by all people in all situations  
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Kant's two formulas of the categorical imperative   Universally willing the maxim of youir actions or taking the standpoint of everyone else. Act so that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or that of another, always as an end and never as a means only.  
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Categorical Imperative   A moral obligation that is imposed on us no matter the circumstances or our personal desires  
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What type of moral theory is Kant's?   Deontological  
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Ethics in Ancient Mesopotamia   Value concepts can be discerned from commercial documents, law codes, wisdome sayings, hero stories, and myths  
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6 Classical Hindu ethics   Dharma, Karma, Ashrama, Purushartha, Gita, Virtues  
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State of Nature   How philosophers think persons would naturally behave if there were no government threatening to punish them  
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Deontological   Duty based. Focuses on your duties, whether they be to other people, to animals, or to God  
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Retributivism   A theory of punishment that is best summed up by the phrase 'an eye for an eye'  
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The Divine Theory   Things are morally good or bad or marally obligatory, permissable or prohibited, soley because of God's will and commands  
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Euthyphro dilemma   If moral good acts are willed by God because they are morally good, then they must be morally good prior to and so independently of God's will  
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Moral Objectivism   Belief that morality is universal, eternal, and unchanging  
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Aristotle's Theory   Involves a virtuous way of life by its relation to happiness  
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Good Will   Kant believed it is the only thing that is totally and completely good without exception  
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Duty   Something that you are required to do whether you want to or not  
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Work Ethic   One fulfills ones destiny through service and through fidelity to what so ever becomes one's responsibility  
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Moral Law   Said to spring from human reason rather than divine fiat. Was conceived to be a system of rules specifying which actions are right  
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Three advantages of virtue as an ethical standard   What kind of person should I be? Helps us explain how a wide variety of actions can be ethical. Allows for the whole spectrum of human experience to influence ethical deliberation.  
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Ethical Egoism   How we should behave. Each person ought to do whatever will best promote his own self-interest  
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Psychological Egoism   Theory of human nature, not an ethical theory. Human nature to act out of self-interest  
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Humanistic virtues and moral ideas praised in Vedic hymns   Truthfulness, giving, restraint, austerities, affection, gratitude, fidelity, forgiveness, non-theiving, non-cheating, giving us their just dessert, avoiding injury to all creatures  
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Buddhism   Meditation is key to enlightenment, lead a good life, practive virtue, follow meditative exercises  
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3 Elements that constitute the theory of natural law   The world is a natural order with values and purposes built into its very nature, How things ought to be, Laws of reason which we are able to grasp because God made us rational beings  
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Consequentialism   Ethical theory that determines good or bad, right or wrong, based on the outcomes  
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Ethical Subjectivism   Moral judgements are nothing more than expressions of personal opinion  
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Torah   First 5 books of the Old Testament written by Moses  
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