Midterm Flashcards
The moral perspective in which ones knows the good, proper, and right.
Moral
Form of love that values each person regardless of their individual characteristics or behavior.
Agape
An ethical position meaning one is not able to make a judgment.
Amoral
A moral virtue or distinguishable character trait in which an individual is free from corruption.
Integrity
Defined in a manner that creates a balance between right and wrong.
Moral Exceptions
The worth each individual places on specific nonmoral values that affect and impinge on others, such as winning.
Moral Values
The doctrine that the truth of all knowledge must always be in question or doubt.
Skepticism
The moral value in which one is answerable, accountable, and possibly liable for actions in the past, present, and future
Responsibility
The position that every ethical or moral decision is made on the spot and no consistency is shown between individual decisions.
Situational Ethics
Moral Corrosion
Justice, do not be unfair. Honesty, Do not lie, cheat, steal. Responsibility, Do not be irresponsible. Beneficence, do not be uncivil.
First Principles
The perspective of pushing the rules to the limit without getting caught, using whatever dubious methods necessary to achieve a win.
Gamesmanship
An affirmation of one’s values, always stated in the negative, a principle says what one will not do based on what one morally values.
Values
The moral value in which one holds someone or something in high regard.
Respect
the quality of being fair or impartial.
Equity
The theoretical study of morality. Ethics is also the standard of morality that a profession should follow.
Ethics
Respect for the rules or equal treatment of all concerned.
Fair Play
Behavior when a decision maker first decides to deceive others by consciously covering up or lying about past behavior.
Slippery Slope of Moral
The way of defining a particular act whether it is morally right or wrong.
Justification
A set of moral principles defined by society dynamics, institutions, traditions and cultural beliefs.
Social Values
The quality of living by one’s stated moral values, persons have virtue if they are fair, honest, responsible, and beneficent.
Virtue
Process of making careful judgements or observations based on a clear understanding of moral and nonmoral values
Critical Reflective Thinking
The quality of being dedicated or committed to a task or purpose, thought or action.
Dedication
Theory of punishment that when an offender breaks the law, justice requires that they suffer in return.
Retributive Justice
When someone uses the point you’re trying to prove as an argument to prove that very same point.
Begging the Question
A process whereby a person who is evaluating a morally questionable act attempts to make it seem right.
Moral Justification
a strong feeling of support or allegiance
Bias
the aim or purpose of a law when it was written
Spirit of the law
fair and generous behavior or treatment of others, especially in a sports contest
Sportsmanship
the equality of involving or being shared by all people or things in the world or in a
particular group
Universality
lasting loyalty and trustworthiness
Faithfullness
seek to harm, intimidate, or coerce someone perceived as vulnerable
Bullying
the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual
Character
the extent to which people are fairly compensated for their injuries by those
who have inured them
Compensatory Justice
an act that is not subject to moral judgement because morality is not taken into
consideration
Nonmoral Values
conformity in the application of something, typically that which is necessary for the
sake of logic, accuracy, or fairness
Consistency
a like or dislike for one rather than another especially without good reason
Prejudice
the tendency to lay down principals as incontrovertibly true, without consideration of
evidence or the opinion of others
Dogmatism
the state of being equal, especially in status, rights and opportunities
Equality
situations in which the decision maker must consider 2 or more moral values or
duties but can onlv honor one of them
Moral Dilema
high respect or great esteem
Honor
equal treatment of all rivals or disputants
Impartiality
the quality of being morally good or virtuous
Goodness
any activity expected of someone joining or participating in a group that humiliates,
degrades, abuses, or endangers them, regardless of a persons willingness to participate
Hazing
The quality of being honest
Honesty
the action of intimidating someone, or the state of being intimidated
Intimidation
Exactly what the law says
Letter of the law
the use of ambiquous lanquage to conceal the truth pro to avoid committing oneself
Equivocation
