THEOLOGICAL BIOETHICS (RELG 2650) MIDTERM IDS EXAM | QUESTIONS & 100% CORRECT ANSWERS (VERIFIED) | LATEST UPDATE | GRADEA+

HEOLOGICAL BIOETHICS (RELG 2650) MIDTERM IDS EXAM | QUESTIONS & 100% CORRECT ANSWERS (VERIFIED) | LATEST UPDATE | GRADEA+ bioethics Correct Answer: The study of ethics related to issues that arise in health care. ethics Correct Answer: sustained and intentional reflection on morality and the moral life with analysis, discontent, reasoning, and arguments moral rules or principles of behavior that should guide members of a profession or organization and make them deal honestly and fairly with each other and with their custom utilitarianism Correct Answer: 1 fundamental moral good-to maximize outcomes of "utility" - greatest good for the greatest number of people-the greatest aggregate happiness outcome deontological Correct Answer: -concerned with universal/general and impartial rules or responsibilities of moral conduct -absolute rule derived from ostensibly universal principles of reason, done solely out of sense of duty categorical imperative Correct Answer: A concept developed by the philosopher Immanuel Kant as an ethical guideline for behavior. In deciding whether an action is right or wrong, or desirable or undesirable, a person should evaluate the action in terms of what would happen if everybody else in the same situation, or category, acted the same way. -tells us what must be done irrespective of our personal desires or goals natural law Correct Answer: Thomas Aquinas -right actions are those that conform to the moral standards embedded in nature and all reasonable people can discover and affirm them through human reason -nature itself is telological rights theory Correct Answer: -derived from modern democratic thinking casuistry/ethical pragmatism Correct Answer: -focus on analyzing specific cases and then analogical reasoning from them -claims confidence in circumstances vs broad general moral principles divine command theory Correct Answer: -view of ethics by most people who follow religion -source of long-standing moral code -morality is an expression of gods will 10 commandments-the symbol Difficulties: -problematic in pluralistic societies because depends on religious agreement -authoritarian and not autonomously motivated -too focused on the next/spiritual lif