ETHICS IN AMERICA DSST EXAM 2024-2025
ACTUAL EXAM 130 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
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What did WD Ross believe about certain basic moral principles?
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That they are self-evident. He called
2 Problem with prima facie duties
them prima facie duties.
3 Issue of Liberty and Freedom 4 Principle of justice
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2 problems with the divine 1) not everyone believes in God's existence and 2) the
command theory determination of precisely what God's law consists of.
, The first is that moral rights and wrongs are independent
2 versions of Divine of God's will and the other is that morality is logically
Command Theory linked to God's will and so God's commands make things
right or wrong.
Is defined as the morally right act and the one that will
Act utilitarianism
bring the greatest increase in overall well-being.
We should carry out the act that will maximize the total
Act Utilitarians well-being (or the smallest decrease in well-being) of all
affected.
An active effort to improve the employment or
educational opportunities of members of minority
Affirmative Action
groups and women; A similar effort to promote the rights
or progress of other disadvantaged persons
Was to ensure the well being of the community in a
situation where both the ruler and his subjects were
believed to be motivated to obey the law and avoid
The aim of Islamic law
punishment in Hell. Islamic thought tends not to
emphasize the rights of human beings but rather their
duties to obey God's perfect law
Believed that land owners were the biggest obstacle to
conservation efforts on private land. He thought that
Aldo Leopold individual ethics (land ethic) were needed to motivate
land owners and that economic incentives and legal
restrictions were ineffective.
Always wrong, always right, With regards to suicide, the 3 viewpoints are..
and it depends
Is a collection of Confucius's discourses with his
Analects disciples, collected approximately seventy years after his
death.
System of beliefs which places human interests above
Anthropocentric the interests of everything else, including animals and
plants
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