ETHICS IN AMERICA DSST EXAM ACTUAL EXAM
Complete Questions and Guide Answers
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1. Beneficience
Answer: The duty to help others in need.
2. Non-maleficience
Answer: The duty to not harm others. This includes acts committed or omitted. One example
would be if a doctor forgot to give a patient the correct care.
3. That they are self-evident. He called them prima facie duties.
Answer: What did WD Ross believe about certain basic moral principles?
4. Problem with prima facie duties
Answer: They may not be self-evident to those who are intellectually immature or those who haven't
thought about it enough.
5. Double-effect principle
Answer: From Thomas Aquinas, and is used to describe situations where harm is induced to cause good. It is
,controversial, especially among utilitarians.
6. We should help others in danger
Answer: If there is little risk and even if it is not in our self-interest.
7. Joel Feinberg
Answer: He wrote The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law, which used 4 principles to determine legitimacy
of government intervention in individual freedom.
8. The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law
Answer: 1. The Harm Principle (originally from John Stuart Mill)
2. The Ottence Principle
3. Paternalism
4. Legal Moralism
9. Paternalism
Answer: Having a person or the government do what they think is best for you, even if it goes against your wishes.
Feinberg rejected this hard, where competent adults would have their liberty restricted to prevent them from harming
themselves.
10. Offense Principle
Answer: Governments are allowed to prohibit conduct that seriously ottends others.
11. Legal Moralism
, Answer: It allows the prohibition of immoral behavior, even if nobody is harmed or ottended. One
example would be a community banning homosexual acts.
12. Legal Pluralism
Answer: Is the existence of multiple legal systems within one (human) population and/or geo- graphic area.
13. Moral pluralism
Answer: Is the assumption there are moral truths, but that they do not form a body of coherent and consistent
truths as those found in the sciences or mathematic approach.
14. Through the virtue of an implied contract. This is common sense morality.
Answer: -
Why should parents take care of their kids?
15. The state will intervene & the child no longer owes the parent a duty of
obedience.
Answer: What happens if the parent doesn't act in the best interests of the child?
16. That are close to us
Answer: We have a duty of special concern to those...?
17. Best interest principle
Answer: When educators, judges, and doctors deal with children, they should follow this...
, 18. Beneficence, Non-maleficence, justice, and autonomy
Answer: According to the medical pro- fession, what are the 4 main guiding ethical principles derived from
common morality?
19. Informed consent
Answer: Doctors have to inform patients of medical risks/benefits who then make an informed decision which
signifies their..?
20. Health professionals
Answer: Owe their patients a duty of care..?
21. Issues business ethics describe
Answer: Corporate governance, accurate accounting and audits, fair labor
practices and environmental management.
22. Fair labor practices
Answer: Are essential to ensure that workers are provided with a safe and humane working environment and
compensated with a fair wage.
23. Environmental sustainability
Answer: Is development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of
future generations to meet their own needs.
24. Economic reasons
Complete Questions and Guide Answers
100% Verified Graded A+
1. Beneficience
Answer: The duty to help others in need.
2. Non-maleficience
Answer: The duty to not harm others. This includes acts committed or omitted. One example
would be if a doctor forgot to give a patient the correct care.
3. That they are self-evident. He called them prima facie duties.
Answer: What did WD Ross believe about certain basic moral principles?
4. Problem with prima facie duties
Answer: They may not be self-evident to those who are intellectually immature or those who haven't
thought about it enough.
5. Double-effect principle
Answer: From Thomas Aquinas, and is used to describe situations where harm is induced to cause good. It is
,controversial, especially among utilitarians.
6. We should help others in danger
Answer: If there is little risk and even if it is not in our self-interest.
7. Joel Feinberg
Answer: He wrote The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law, which used 4 principles to determine legitimacy
of government intervention in individual freedom.
8. The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law
Answer: 1. The Harm Principle (originally from John Stuart Mill)
2. The Ottence Principle
3. Paternalism
4. Legal Moralism
9. Paternalism
Answer: Having a person or the government do what they think is best for you, even if it goes against your wishes.
Feinberg rejected this hard, where competent adults would have their liberty restricted to prevent them from harming
themselves.
10. Offense Principle
Answer: Governments are allowed to prohibit conduct that seriously ottends others.
11. Legal Moralism
, Answer: It allows the prohibition of immoral behavior, even if nobody is harmed or ottended. One
example would be a community banning homosexual acts.
12. Legal Pluralism
Answer: Is the existence of multiple legal systems within one (human) population and/or geo- graphic area.
13. Moral pluralism
Answer: Is the assumption there are moral truths, but that they do not form a body of coherent and consistent
truths as those found in the sciences or mathematic approach.
14. Through the virtue of an implied contract. This is common sense morality.
Answer: -
Why should parents take care of their kids?
15. The state will intervene & the child no longer owes the parent a duty of
obedience.
Answer: What happens if the parent doesn't act in the best interests of the child?
16. That are close to us
Answer: We have a duty of special concern to those...?
17. Best interest principle
Answer: When educators, judges, and doctors deal with children, they should follow this...
, 18. Beneficence, Non-maleficence, justice, and autonomy
Answer: According to the medical pro- fession, what are the 4 main guiding ethical principles derived from
common morality?
19. Informed consent
Answer: Doctors have to inform patients of medical risks/benefits who then make an informed decision which
signifies their..?
20. Health professionals
Answer: Owe their patients a duty of care..?
21. Issues business ethics describe
Answer: Corporate governance, accurate accounting and audits, fair labor
practices and environmental management.
22. Fair labor practices
Answer: Are essential to ensure that workers are provided with a safe and humane working environment and
compensated with a fair wage.
23. Environmental sustainability
Answer: Is development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of
future generations to meet their own needs.
24. Economic reasons
