3 most valued traits of potential employees - Answer-communication, interpersonal skills
team skills
ethics
happier if you focus on... - Answer-relationships and intimacy
religion and spirituality
generativity
no jerks apply rule - Answer-employers refuse to hire an otherwise qualified pe...
LEB 320F Ethics Exam Questions with
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3 most valued traits of potential employees - Answer-communication, interpersonal
skills
team skills
ethics
happier if you focus on... - Answer-relationships and intimacy
religion and spirituality
generativity
no jerks apply rule - Answer-employers refuse to hire an otherwise qualified person
because of their personality
sarbanes- oxley act 2002 - Answer-harsher punishment, new crimes
Ethics - Answer-study of morality
systematically explores moral values, moral standards, obligations, reasoning,
judgments
appropriate treatment of other humans
Legal Standards
-Source
-Consequence
-Influence
-Level of Demand
-Purpose
-Baseline reason - Answer-Legal
- Source: defined and applied by governmental processes
- Consequence: concrete sanctions
- Influence: one another
- Level of Demand: depends
- Purpose: serve same general purpose; expression of society's most basic values
- Baseline reason: fairness and avoidance of harm to others
Moral Standards
-Source
-Consequence
-Influence
-Level of Demand
-Purpose
-Baseline reason - Answer-- Source: instinctive, intuitive, cultural factors
- Consequence: internal, can't define
, - Influence: one another
- Level of Demand: depends
- Purpose: serve same general purpose; expression of society's most basic values
- Baseline reason: fairness and avoidance of harm to others
moral dumbfounding - Answer-- snap moral judgements that cannot be explained
intellectually.
- evidence that evolution has played a significant role in many of our moral beliefs
- ex. disgust over a sexual relationship between infertile siblings
4 broad subjects that all moral codes address - Answer--purpose: maximize benefits of
living in groups
1. Negative appraisals of certain acts of harming others
2. Values pertaining to reciprocity and fairness
3. Requirements for behaving that fit one's status in society/hierarchy
4. Regulations around bodily matters (menstruation, sex, food, bathing) generally
dominated by concepts of purity, pollution
imaginative moral deliberation - Answer-o Many situations do not generate automatic
responses so we use imaginative moral deliberation (948)
o Gut reaction can still be important and potentially right
Utilitarianism - Answer-- do the greatest good for the greatest number
- Permits all conduct that will serve the objective of maximizing the social utility
- Consequentialist
- Good in theory, but hard to measure/implement in actuality
• Ex. Killing one person and using organs to save five
One component in a rational process of ethical reasoning
Deontological - Answer-overarching standards
Rule-based approach
Identify and apply certain threshold standards of moral behavior to real problems
across various circumstances and cultures
Overarching standard of moral behavior
Rule and people can't make exceptions for themselves
Treat others the way you want to be treated
Virtue Ethics - Answer-- focus on practicing virtues and will end up making good
decisions
- Trying to be a virtuous person in all aspects
What is the moral minimum - Answer-- general categories of behavior that have their
own moral foundation and don't need justification. Rather, would need to justify a failure
to comply with them because noncompliance destroys the social and economic
relationships that cause society to function
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