Global Ethics Final

This philosophy focuses solely on the consequences of specific individual acts:

Act Utilitarianism

Gender issues that women continue to face around the globe include

All of the answer choices are correct (insufficient pay and pay discrimination, assault and rape, lack of autonomy over their bodies)

Advantages of the Capability Approach to address poverty include

All of the answer choices are correct (it has a global framework, it's local and context sensitive, it includes individual and group values)

Problems with relief aid in the form of money and resources include

All of the answer choices are correct (it is only short term, not sustainable, most aid does not actually go to the poorest who would need it the most

Effects of climate change include

All of the answer choices are correct (species extinction, sea level rise, increased floods, hurricanes, droughts)

Global ethical issues include but are not limited to:

All of the answers are correct (child labor, human trafficking, war & conflict, gender equality)

Many studies have found a positive relationship between which of the following?

An ethical culture and good business performance

This approach includes how caring relationships are important from standpoint of evolution--as as mother's care for her children promotes their survival and emotional and moral health

Care Ethics

Global ethics is the response to:

Changing ethical issues related to globalization

During early Colonial America, ethics & values was taught primarily in:

Churches and homes

Causes of global poverty include

Colonialism

The concept that morality varies from one culture to another and that business practices are therefore differently defined as right or wrong by different cultures is known as:

Cultural relativism

This moral philosophy is sometimes described as "duty-" or "obligation-based" ethics:

Deontology

_____________ focuses on right actions and right intentions while downplaying the importance of the goods or benefits that are produced by these actions

Deontology

Acceptable behavior defined in terms of consequences to the individual that maximizes personal interests

Egoism

This theory advocates for well being of others although own self-interest is still most important

Enlightened Egoism

A problem, situation, or opportunity requiring an individual, group, or organization to choose among several actions that must be evaluated as right or wrong is called an:

Ethical issue

______________ is an intellectual commitment and a political movement that seeks justice for women and the end of sexism in all forms

Feminism

___________ asks moral questions concerning the underlying fairness and justice of the current globalization situation

Global ethics

Virtue ethics helps us to determine:

How we ought to be

This theory states that nature should be protected because it is useful to humanity

Instrumental model of environmental value

This theory states that war is not inherently bad and can be a beneficial aspect of society

Militarism

Thomas Pogge argues that world poverty is the direct responsibility of the richer world: that the rich have caused poverty and directly harmed the poor. This is an example of the:

Negative-rights approach

This form of utilitarianism considers the consequences of some practice or rule of behavior:

Rule Utilitarianism

The assumption of human superiority leading to exploiting a member of a different species is called

Speciesism

This theory suggests that there are not just duties to protect humans but additional duties to protect animals, species, and habitats as well as biological and ecological systems

Stewardship model

Egoism is part of what moral philosophy?

Teleology

___________ considers acts as morally right or acceptable if they produce some desired result such as pleasure, knowledge, career growth, the realization of a self interest, or utility.

Teleology

"Poverty-related causes" can include not only starvation or malnutrition but also diseases preventable by basic health or sanitation

True

A criticism of ethics of care is that it does not explain how to determine what will help or harm particular individuals

True

According to Widdows (2014) text, in no country do women on average earn the same as men

True

According to Widdows (2014), 10% of the world's population holds 90% fo the world's wealth

True

According to the principle of discrimination, it is wrong to ever do something that risks civilian deaths in war

True

According to the textbook, cosmopolitanism states that there is a "moral sphere" that transcends national or cultural boundaries, and hence that moral obligations are global in scope

True

Charitable aid given with the purpose to help victims in conflict sones can result in those in need not receiving the aid

True

Engaging in war activities under a protected symbol is itself a violation of the laws of war known as perfidy

True

Global poverty can lead to many other tragic issues such as human trafficking

True

Hedonism, also known as pleasure or happiness theory, reduces all other goods to some form of pleasure or happiness

True

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) is largely credited for developing the ethical theory of utilitarianism

True

Just War Theory has an initial presumption agains war that must be overcome by the fulfillment of certain requirements

True

Kant believed moral duties are universal and absolute

True

One long-standing element of Just War Theory is the attempt to spare the lives of civilians and non-combatants

True

Peter Singer argues we should use a utilitarian analysis as rationale for addressing global poverty

True

Teleology can be considered a "selfish" ethical theory

True

The Categorical Imperative is a moral law that is unconditional or absolute for all agents, the validity or claim of which does not depend on any ulterior motive or end

True

Utilitarianism argues that we ought to do that which produces the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest number of people

True

Theory that states there are at least some moral values and standards that hold independently of any particular cultural, political, or historical context

Universalism

Potential strategies to minimize climate change include

a & b (reducing emissions and creating genetically modified crops)

Philanthropic activities can be best described as

both a & c (volunteering at a homeless shelter & giving $$ to a relief agency to help with natural disasters)

One of the seven things selfish people do in the workplace is

they bring others down to build themselves up