Week 2

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we should always treat persons

Kant's principle of respect says that

T

From the fact that cultures have divergent moral beliefs on an issue, it does not logically follow that there is no objective moral truth.

T

Nonmaleficence is the bedrock precept of codes of conduct for health care professionals.

Each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive total system of equal basic liberties compatible with a similar system of liberty for all, social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are both to the greatest benefit of the least advantaged and attached to offices and positions open to all under conditions of fair equality of opportunity

Rawls's equal liberty principle

classic utilitarianism depends heavily on a strong sense of impartiality. T/F

T

kant's categorical imperatives are absolutist. T/F

T

straw man fallacy

The misrepresentation of a person's views so they can be more easily attacked or dismissed is known as

paternalism

The overriding of a person's actions or decision-making for his or her own good is known as

Normative dominance

a key feature of moral norms is

F

all religious people accept the divine command theory. T/F

the use of moral norms and concepts to resolve practical moral issues

applied ethics

T

cultural relativism implies that we cannot legitimately criticize other cultures.

F

cultural relativism logically entails tolerance for other cultures

Our considered moral judgments

data that a moral theory is suppose to explain are

F

equals should be treated equally is a basic precept of the principle of autonomy T/F

morality using the tools and method of philosophy

ethics is the study of ____

the heart of the moral life is feeling for and caring for those with whom you have a special, intimate connection

ethics of care

find the conclusion

in assessing an argument, the first order of business is to ____

consequentialist moral theories

insist that the rightness of actions depends solely on their consequences or results

reason, reflection, categorical imperative

kant says that through ____ and ____, we can derive our duties from the ________

knowing and doing what's right, moral principles or directives

main concern of virtue ethics, their chief guide to these aims is _____ or _______

Prima facie

moral principle that applies in all cases unless an exception is warranted is ____

F

moral theories are not relevant to our moral life. T/F

Problematic

moral theory that is inconsistent with the facts of the moral life is

doctrine of double effect

natural law tradition resolves dilemmas through ______

severe

principle of respect for autononmy places ____ restraints on what can be done to n autonomous person

the idea that the rightness of actions depends solely on the relative good produced by individual actions

rule-utilitarianism

natural law theory

the view that right actions are those that conform to moral standards discerned in nature through human reason

act-utilitariansim

the view that the rightness of actions depends solely on the relative good produced by individual actions

All of nature, including humankind, is teleological

underlying natural law theory is the belief that

Moral theory

why an action is right or wrong or why a person or a person's character is good or bad


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