Ethical Frameworks
This 8-syllable philosophy instructs us to make moral decisions based on what will create the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
What is utilitarianism?
This substance was originally invented to be a pesticide; its later use for something worse is an example of "dual use"
What is Zyklon B?
This shape is often used to describe three important parts of any argument.
What is a triangle?
This unit of text is important in giving writing "form."
What is a paragraph?
This project is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence.
What is the moral machine project?
This philosopher believed in "moral" (or "categorical") imperatives and that certain things, like lying, are always wrong.
Who is Kant?
This model helps us consider who or what we owe ethical treatment.
What is the moral sphere?
A politician who points out his years of experience is primarily using this ethical appeal.
What is ethos?
This writer says that no one can write a good first draft.
Who is Anne Lamott?
Hans Rosling's Ted Talk "How to Be Less Ignorant About the World" argues that overall, the daily life is getting ___________ for most people.
What is better?
This philosopher believed in the golden mean, or finding the "just right" place between two extremes of behavior.
Who is Aristotle?
What is Cicero's Creed?
A commercial that features a whole bunch of puppies is probably using this ethical appeal.
What is pathos?
One of the most common errors in student writers is this, in which two complete sentences are connected with a comma
What is a comma splice?
This high school chemistry teacher helped us explore some ethical concepts early in the semester.
Who is Walter White?
This form of transportation is used in a famous thought experiment for utilitarianism.
What is a trolley?
Aristotle said we learn virtuous behavior from emulating these people.
What are moral exemplars?
Not the three rhetorical appeals, but these three elements make up the key points/parts of the rhetorical triangle.
What are speaker, audience, and message?
What is honesty?
(Also will accept: what is voice?)
An early question in this course involved a hypothetical situation about changing a report about what type of building?
What is a shopping mall?
This principle says that if we can't apply a moral rule to everyone, it's not ethical.
What is the universality principle, or what is a categorical imperative?
This "illness" contributed to the launch of the Challenger space shuttle despite concerns from engineers working on the launch.
What is launch fever?
This term points to the importance of an argument, why it matters at the time it is delivered.
What is exigence?
NHV assumes you'll use this basic reading and writing skill over and over in your college career and beyond, which is why it's emphasized in an early major paper (and it starts with s).
What is summarizing a text?
This "theory" is a framework that helps pinpoint what an argument is about: for example, what a word means or what action we should take,
What is stasis theory?