Lesson 5&6 Flashcards
(15 cards)
What are two necessary features for an issue to be considered an applied ethical issue?
a) The issue needs to be controversial. Significant groups of people are both for and against the issue at hand.
b) The issue must distinctly be a moral issue.
Which principles are the ones most commonly appealed to in applied ethical discussions?
a) Consequentialist Principles. These appeal to the consequences of an action as it affects the individual or society.
b) Duty-based Principles are duties we have toward others.
c) Duty-based Principles are based on moral rights.
Biomedical ethics focuses on a range of issues which arise in _____ settings
Clinical
Biomedical ethical issues are in the unusual position of dealing with life or death situations. Give five examples of these issues:
a) Prenatal issues: the morality of surrogate mothering, genetic manipulation of foetuses, the status of unused frozen embryos, cloning and abortion.
b) Patients’ rights and physicians’ responsibilities, such as patient confidentiality, and telling the truth to dying patients.
c) AIDS crisis: should there be mandatory screening for AIDS? Can physicians refuse to treat AIDS patients?
d) Medical experimentation on humans: the morality of involuntary commitment, the rights of the mentally impaired
e) End-of-life issues: the morality of suicide, the justifiability of suicide intervention, physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia
nvironmental ethics often _____ with business and medical issues.
Overlaps
Give seven examples of environmental ethics:
a) The rights of animals
b) The morality of animal experimentation
c) Preserving endangered species
d) Pollution control
e) The management of environmental resources
f) Are ecosystems entitled to direct moral consideration?
g) Our obligation to future generations
Give five examples of sexual ethics and morality:
a) Monogamy versus polygamy
b) Sexual relations without love
c) Homosexual relations
d) Extramarital affairs
e) Same sex marriage
Give eight examples of social ethics and morality:
a) Capital punishment
b) Nuclear war
c) Gun control
d) Recreational use of drugs
e) Welfare rights
f) Racism
g) Civil disobedience
h) Gambling
Ethics deal with human _____ in and out of the _____
a) relationships
b) church
When God _____ to be recognised as God and sovereign, man must search for some other _____ for his morality and ethics.
a) ceases
b) authority
We can know what God expects when we study the progressive _____ of His intent and will for _____ through the centuries covered in the Bible.
a) revelation
b) man
Idolatry is any relationship or _____ that _____ the glory or honour _____ to God because of His _____ and authority.
a) behaviour
b) reduces
c) due
d) character
Ethics is about human _____, and things that motivates it, reasons or _____, whether an action is right or wrong.
a) behaviour
b) emotions
Contextual ethics is a _____ parallel to situation ethics in that this view appeals to _____ understanding and human _____.
a) Biblical
b) sympathetic
c) judgement
Social ethics is concerned with man’s social _____ as judged by standards in the _____.
a) relationships
b) Christian faith
