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BEHV 5613 Midterm Exam Study Guide.
"Good" People Definition - answer✔-They seem to struggle over issues that some people might not even
recognize as problems.
-They are aware of a sense of vision.
-They seem to have a deep core of ethical values.
"Tough" Choices Definition - answer✔-They require us to consider our deepest values.
-They contrast two possibilities that both could be considered right.
Common Paradigms to Categorize Dilemmas - answer✔-Truth vs. loyalty
-Short term vs. long term
-Justice vs. mercy
-Individual vs. community
How do the paradigms help us make difficult choices? - answer✔-It helps us separate right vs. right
issues from right vs. wrong issues.
-It helps us to see past the unnecessary details and into the core issues.
-Reducing dilemmas into common patterns helps us to see the similarity with other problems and how it
is a workable problem.
Principles to View Ethical Dilemmas (3 principles for resolving dilemmas) - answer✔-Ends based thinking
-Rule based thinking
-Care based thinking
Ends Based Thinking - answer✔-Utilitarianism
-Do what leads to the greatest good for the greatest number.
-Consequentialism
-Requires one to predict outcomes and consider the consequences
-Teleological philosophy
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-Do what's best for the greatest number of people.
-Right and wrong can be assessed by examining consequences.
Rule Based Thinking - answer✔-Kant
-Follow the principle that you want everyone else to follow.
-Deontological
-Stick to your principles, despite the consequences.
-Follow your highest sense of principle.
-I ought never to act except in a way that I can also will that my maxim should become universal law.
-Act on our highest sense of inner concience
-Our actions conform to certain large patterns which can be converted into universal principles of
action.
Care Based Thinking - answer✔-Golden rule
-Imagine how you would feel if you were the recipient of your actions.
-Do what you want others to do to you.
-Putting ourselves in another's shoes.
Criterion of reversibility
"Great Danger" of Ordinary People - answer✔At a critical moment, we may not realize we are walking
into moral temptation.
3 Ways We Typically Think Wrong - answer✔-Violation of law
-Departure from truth
-Deviation from moral rectitude
Violation of Law - answer✔We don't know the law and its applications or we willingly choose to violate
the law.
Departure From Truth - answer✔A lack of correspondence what is said and what actually happened.
Deviation From Moral Rectitude - answer✔A lack of correspondence between what we believe to be
right and what we actually do.
Immorality -> Wrongdoing - answer✔Our values have not been adequately defined -> our actions being
out of sync with our values -> immorality
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6 Stages of Moral Judgement (Kohlberg) - answer✔-Preconventional
-Conventional
-Postconventional
Pre-Conventional - answer✔-Stage 1: fear of punishment or respect of authority
-Stage 2: increase individualism and a sense of equal exchange and fairness
Conventional - answer✔-Stage 3: stereotype of good behavior
-Stage 4: generalized moral system defines the rules and roles
Post-Conventional - answer✔-Stage 5: values are largely relative to one's own group
-Stage 6: personal commitment to principles such as justice, equal human rights, and individual dignity.
How to be ethically fit - answer✔-Being mentally engaged in grappling with the tough issues.
-Being committed to caring.
Personal and Social aspects of character - answer✔-It is staying ethically fit through interactions with
others.
-It is what you communicate to others about yourself.
-There are benefits from being part of a culture that values ethical behavior.
Ethics Definition - answer✔-The majority of people can recognize good.
-For ethics to be applicable, it must be viewed as the stuff of daily life.
Moral is not the same as Manners - answer✔Moral and ethics is interchangable.
Lord Moulton 3 Domains of Human Action - answer✔-Positive law
-The region of obedience to the unenforceable
-Free choice
Legal is not... - answer✔the same as ethical
Choose enforceable legal regulation or... - answer✔unenforceable self regulation
Excellent moral virtue is - answer✔Aiming at the intermediate (Golden Mean) *Aristotle*
Downfall of states, treaties, agreements is - answer✔Trust
Effective Code of Ethics - answer✔-It is brief
-It can be expressed in many ways/forms