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Theological Bioethics (RELG 2650) Midterm
IDs Questions with Correct Answers |
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bioethics Answer: The study of ethics related to issues that arise in
health care.
ethics 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 Answer: 1 fundamental moral good-to maximize
outcomes of "utility" -greatest good for the greatest number of
people-the greatest aggregate happiness outcome
deontological 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 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
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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 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 Answer: -derived from modern democratic thinking
casuistry/ethical pragmatism Answer: -focus on analyzing specific
cases and then analogical reasoning from them
-claims confidence in circumstances vs broad general moral
principles
divine command theory Answer: -view of ethics by most people
who follow religion
-source of long-standing moral code
-morality is an expression of gods will
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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 life
revelation Answer: God will communicate to people the basis of
moral life through written and living heritage of the church
(depositum fidei)
convenant Answer: (berit) the special partnership that god forges
with this special figure of Abraham and then his decendents; and
then the people at large
-there are mutual rights and responsibilities; but always initiated by
god (asymetric in that sense)
-with specific people, but the purpose is to overflow into the rest of
humanity (universal dynamic/significance)
prophets Answer: People who are said to receive messages from
God to be taught to others
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Torah Answer: -"teaching/instruction"
-says very little about medical care
-God is the healer
The first five books of Jewish Scripture, which they believe are by
Moses, are called this
-the code
Talmud Answer: compilation of Mishna combined with Rabbinic
commentary and decisions 2 versions
1.Palestinian
2. Babylonian
halakhah Answer: Jewish laws as applied to jewish living
-responsorial, ongoing engagement; return to sources and apply
them to new issues in modern society
-highly conversational, debate and questioning is part of the
processes
-causist-it does focus on specific cases and how they would relate
to ones that have clear presence in the Torah
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Theological Bioethics (RELG 2650) Midterm
IDs Questions with Correct Answers |
Updated (100% Correct Answers)
bioethics Answer: The study of ethics related to issues that arise in
health care.
ethics 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 Answer: 1 fundamental moral good-to maximize
outcomes of "utility" -greatest good for the greatest number of
people-the greatest aggregate happiness outcome
deontological 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 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
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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 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 Answer: -derived from modern democratic thinking
casuistry/ethical pragmatism Answer: -focus on analyzing specific
cases and then analogical reasoning from them
-claims confidence in circumstances vs broad general moral
principles
divine command theory Answer: -view of ethics by most people
who follow religion
-source of long-standing moral code
-morality is an expression of gods will
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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 life
revelation Answer: God will communicate to people the basis of
moral life through written and living heritage of the church
(depositum fidei)
convenant Answer: (berit) the special partnership that god forges
with this special figure of Abraham and then his decendents; and
then the people at large
-there are mutual rights and responsibilities; but always initiated by
god (asymetric in that sense)
-with specific people, but the purpose is to overflow into the rest of
humanity (universal dynamic/significance)
prophets Answer: People who are said to receive messages from
God to be taught to others
-
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Torah Answer: -"teaching/instruction"
-says very little about medical care
-God is the healer
The first five books of Jewish Scripture, which they believe are by
Moses, are called this
-the code
Talmud Answer: compilation of Mishna combined with Rabbinic
commentary and decisions 2 versions
1.Palestinian
2. Babylonian
halakhah Answer: Jewish laws as applied to jewish living
-responsorial, ongoing engagement; return to sources and apply
them to new issues in modern society
-highly conversational, debate and questioning is part of the
processes
-causist-it does focus on specific cases and how they would relate
to ones that have clear presence in the Torah
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