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17 Cards in this Set
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Determining what is right or good solely on the basis of the momentary context; this implies that what is right or good today in one situation may not be right tomorrow in another set of circumstances.
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Situational Ethics
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A type of ethical problem that occurs when a person who has made an ethical commitment or promise to act in the interests of another person or group, violates that promise and acts in his or her personal interests instead.
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Conflict of Interest
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The reasoned study of what is morally right and wrong, good and bad.
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Ethics
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Moral questions or problems; situations or actions that contain legitimate questions of moral right or wrong.
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Ethical Issues
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Informed and logical thought, or logical problem solving.
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Critical Thinking
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The actual use of moral standards of behavior in making decisions about human problems
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Applied Ethics
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Behaviors that are judged to be consistent with ethical thinking and decision making
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Morals
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General guidelines of ethical behavior; the "should" statements of ethics.
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Ethical (or moral) principles
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Character traits that make up a moral life.
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Virtues
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Moral qualities that are considered important and worthy.
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Values
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Conclusions as to whether specific actions are ethically right or wrong.
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Moral judgments
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Ethical theories that base moral judgments on factors OTHER THAN the results or outcomes of actions.
These are the factors can include duties, obligations, rights, laws of nature, or social contracts. |
Non-Sequential Ethical Theories
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Commendable character traits (Virtues) - Virtue Ethics Theory
Laws of nature - Natural Law Theory Individual rights - Natural Rights Theory Ethical duties and obligations - Kant’s Theory Social contracts - Contractarianism |
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Ethical theory of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle which focuses primarily on personal character; becoming the right kind of person by developing certain virtuous character traits
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Virtue Ethics
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Courage, Justice, Self-Control, Wisdom
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theory emphasizes conduct based upon the perceived order inherent in the universe
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natural law
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theory emphasizes the exclusive protection of and reliance upon basic human rights. John Locke’s key principle is the fundamental duty to avoid violating the right of others.
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natural rights
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theory bases moral right and wrong on self-derived, universal, moral duties determined through reason and intuition
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Kant's theorry
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theory bases ethics on the values of justice and fairness, providing processes to help people understand what an ideal, fair solution would be
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contractarianism
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