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ETHICS ACTUAL FINAL EXAM & STUDY GUIDE
NEWEST VERSION WITH COMPLETE 106 QUESTIONS AND
ACCURATE DETAILED ANSWERS \\VERIFIED SOLUTIONS (A+
GUIDE SOLUTION)
Terms in this set (106)
Singer is right, but only in part (John Arthur)
We should give equal consideration to equally
serious needs, but any proposed theory of obligation
needs to account for entitlements.
I am entitled to my body, for example. It may be
less valuable to me that I keep my kidney than that
I give it so another person might live, but it is too
morally
strenuous to claim that this is a duty that I have.
entitlement and moral The positive duties that I owe to other people can
duty
only be established through promise or contract.
I always have a negative duty to not harm you
intentionally.
I may or may not have a positive duty to aid you
when
you need assistance.
Descriptive: How do people actually live?
What are the three Normative: How ought people to live?
branches of ethics? Applied: What ought people to do in specific
situations?
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Prescriptivity: Moral principles are intended to guide
human behavior.
Universalizability: Moral principles can be applied to
all similar people in similar situations.
What are the five traits of Overridingness: Moral principles take precedence
moral principles? over other kinds of principles.
Publicity: Moral principles must be made public.
Practicability: Moral principles must not be unduly
burdensome such that they become too difficult to
put into practice.
Four domains of ethical Action, Consequences, Character, Motive
assessment
Right acts can be:
Obligatory: You are required to do x. Optional: You are
permitted to do x.
Supererogatory: You are morally exemplary if you do x.
Wrong acts are impermissible.
Deontological approaches to ethics argue that an action is
intrinsically right or wrong. For example,
breaking promises is inherently wrong. It can never be
Action justified.
The nature-of-the-act condition: The action must be either
morally good or indifferent.
The Means-end condition: The bad effect must not be the
means by which one achieves the good effect.
The right-intention condition: The bad effect must
only an unintended side-effect of the action. The bad effect
may be foreseen, but it may not be intended. The
Four Conditions of PDE proportionality condition: The good effect must be at least
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equivalent in importance to the bad effect.
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ETHICS ACTUAL FINAL EXAM & STUDY GUIDE
NEWEST VERSION WITH COMPLETE 106 QUESTIONS AND
ACCURATE DETAILED ANSWERS \\VERIFIED SOLUTIONS (A+
GUIDE SOLUTION)
Terms in this set (106)
Singer is right, but only in part (John Arthur)
We should give equal consideration to equally
serious needs, but any proposed theory of obligation
needs to account for entitlements.
I am entitled to my body, for example. It may be
less valuable to me that I keep my kidney than that
I give it so another person might live, but it is too
morally
strenuous to claim that this is a duty that I have.
entitlement and moral The positive duties that I owe to other people can
duty
only be established through promise or contract.
I always have a negative duty to not harm you
intentionally.
I may or may not have a positive duty to aid you
when
you need assistance.
Descriptive: How do people actually live?
What are the three Normative: How ought people to live?
branches of ethics? Applied: What ought people to do in specific
situations?
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Prescriptivity: Moral principles are intended to guide
human behavior.
Universalizability: Moral principles can be applied to
all similar people in similar situations.
What are the five traits of Overridingness: Moral principles take precedence
moral principles? over other kinds of principles.
Publicity: Moral principles must be made public.
Practicability: Moral principles must not be unduly
burdensome such that they become too difficult to
put into practice.
Four domains of ethical Action, Consequences, Character, Motive
assessment
Right acts can be:
Obligatory: You are required to do x. Optional: You are
permitted to do x.
Supererogatory: You are morally exemplary if you do x.
Wrong acts are impermissible.
Deontological approaches to ethics argue that an action is
intrinsically right or wrong. For example,
breaking promises is inherently wrong. It can never be
Action justified.
The nature-of-the-act condition: The action must be either
morally good or indifferent.
The Means-end condition: The bad effect must not be the
means by which one achieves the good effect.
The right-intention condition: The bad effect must
only an unintended side-effect of the action. The bad effect
may be foreseen, but it may not be intended. The
Four Conditions of PDE proportionality condition: The good effect must be at least
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equivalent in importance to the bad effect.
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