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WorksheetsEthics Final
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 8mins
applied ethics
The study of the meaning and logical structure of moral beliefs.
The study of the principles, rules, or theories that guide our actions and judgments.
The application of moral norms to specific moral issues or cases, particularly those in a profession such as medicine or law.
Valuable as a means to something else.
Beliefs concerning right and wrong, good and bad; they can include judgments, rules, values, principles, and theories. (Ch. 1)
Morality
Meta Ethics
Applied Ethics
Descriptive Ethics
Objectivism
The view that an action is morally right if one’s culture approves of it.
The view that an action is morally right if one approves of it. Implications: that individuals are morally infallible and that genuine moral disagreement between individuals is nearly impossible.
A supporting statement in an argument.
The theory that moral truths exist and that they do so independently of what individuals or societies think of them.
A supporting statement in an argument.
argument
Conclusion
Premise
Indicator words
A deductive argument that does not offer logically conclusive support for the conclusion.
Deductive Argument
Invalid Argument
Valid Argument
Inductive argument
A statement affirming that an action is right or wrong or that a person (or one’s motive or character) is good or bad.
Nonmoral Statement
Moral Statement
I don't Know
Equivoccation
Paying attention only to evidence that confirms our beliefs while ignoring opposing evidence.
Faulty analogy
Confirmation bias
Appeal to the person
Cogent argument
Utilitarianism
A theory asserting that the morally right action is the one that produces the most favorable balance of good over evil, everyone considered.
An imperative that we should follow regardless of our particular wants and needs; also, the principle that defines Kant’s theory.
A theory asserting that the rightness of an action does not depend on its consequences.
Kant
act-utilitarianism
A utilitarian theory asserting that the morally right action is the one covered by a rule that, if generally followed, would produce the most favorable balance of good over evil, everyone considered.
Kant
A theory asserting that what makes an action right is its consequences.
A utilitarian theory asserting that the morally right action is the one that directly produces the most favorable balance of good over evil, everyone considered.
Greatest Happiness Principle
Bentham
Mills
Kant
Foley
doctrine of double effect
The rule that we must always treat people (including ourselves) as ends in themselves, never merely as a means.
The principle that performing a good action may be permissible even if it has bad effects, but performing a bad action for the purpose of achieving good effects is never permissible; any bad effects must be unintended.
An imperative that we should follow regardless of our particular wants and needs; also, the principle that defines Kant’s theory.
A duty that has no exceptions.
A theory of morality that makes virtue the central concern.
Deontology
Virtue ethics
Golden mean
Happiness
An alternative way of looking at the concepts and concerns of the moral life; an approach focused on women’s interests and experiences and devoted to supporting the moral equality of women and men and correcting the biases against women found in traditional moral thinking.
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What day did this class first meet?
1/11/23
1/10/23
1/9/23
1/12/23
