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100
Belief that actions are the proper basis on which to judge morality or ethicalness.
What is Act Deontologist?
100
Long-range perspective that allows for the well-being of others although self-interest remains paramount
What is Enlightened Egoism?
100
A system of ethics based on respect for persons
What is Nonconsequentialism?
100
Those who take the position that no one thing is intrinsically good.
What are Pluralists?
100
This determines behavior on the basis of principles or rules designed to promote the greatest utility, rather than on individual examinations of each situation that occurs.
What is Rule Utilitarian?
200
The class of normative ethical theories holding that the consequences of one's conduct are the ultimate basis for any judgment about the rightness of that conduct.
What is Consequentialism?
200
One’s pleasure is the ultimate intrinsic good or that the moral end, or goodness, is the greatest balance of pleasure over pain.
What is Hedonism?
200
The specific principles or rules that people use to decide what is right or wrong.
What is Moral philosophy?
200
Those described as believing that more pleasure is a good thing.
What are Quantitative hedonists?
200
The belief that decision making should result in the greatest utility or the greatest benefit for all those affected by a decision.
What is Utilitarianism?
300
Refers to moral philosophies that focus on the rights of individuals and on the intentions associated with a particular behavior rather than its consequences.
What is Deontology?
300
Those who reject the idea that the ends can be separated from the means that produce them and ends, purposes, or outcomes are intrinsically good in and of themselves.
What are Instrumentalists?
300
These people believe that only one thing is intrinsically good.
What are Monists?
300
This is based on the processes and activities that produce the outcome or results.
What is Procedural justice?
300
An individual or group committing an illegal act in relation to his/her employment, who is highly educated, in a position of power, trust, respectability, and responsibility, within a profit/nonprofit business or government organization and who abuses the trust and authority
What are White collar crimes?
400
Act as if the maxim of thy action were to become by thy will a universal law of nature.
What is Categorical Imperative?
400
A moral philosophy that places special value on ideas and ideals as products of the mind.
What is Idealism?
400
This group naturally sees situations from their own perspectives and argue that, as a result, there is no objective way of resolving ethical disputes between value systems and individuals.
What are Metaethical Relativists?
400
The view that an external world exists independent of our own perception of it.
What is Realism?
400
This emphasizes the importance of the role of one's character and the virtues that one's character embodies for determining or evaluating ethical behavior
What is Virtue Ethics?
500
Examines specific actions, rather than the general rules governing them, to assess whether they will result in the greatest utility.
What is Act Utilitarian?
500
A theory stating, if an act produces more value than its effort, then it should be accepted as ethical.
What is economic value orientation?
500
These emphasize the means and motives by which actions are justified.
What are Obligation theories?
500
Definitions of ethical issues are derived subjectively from the experiences of individuals and groups.
What are Relativists perspectives?
500
Moral philosophies in which an act is considered morally right or acceptable if it produces some desired result, such as a pleasure, knowledge, career growth, the realization of self-interest, utility, wealth, or even fame.
What is Teleology?
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