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1. Explores when and how to compensate someone for a loss

2. Three Aristotelian principles followed by Aquinas

3. According to Socrates this is the sufficient condition to the good life

4. A generalized blueprint for the kind of entity you are

5. Advocates that moral values are relative to likely social consequences - we must act in a way as to help bring about the greatest good for the greatest number of people (Standard of Happiness)

6. View holds that the good for which all humans aspire is happiness - which is the activity of the soul

7. Claim that only pleasure or pain motivate us - most significant form of psychological hedonism

8. Egoism and exchange relationships - thinking is based on self-interest and how it can be achieved within relationships

9. Former slave who received an education in the doctrine of Stoic philosophy - believed ethical wisdom can be obtained by keeping a moral purpose in harmony with nature

10. Type of ethical theory which is concerned with moral rules which are generated by non-consequentialist methods - based in the nature of rationality or other principles of duty not consequences - theory of moral obligation

11. Socrates believed that whatever action a man chooses is motivated for his desire for this

12. Applied to determine on what basis scarce resources will be distributed or alternatively on what basis burdens will be distributed

13. Moral character - a theory of morality that makes virtue the central concern

14. The study of ends or final causes or purposes that things serve

15. Rights and Justice - concerned mostly with justice - being an ideal ethical thinker needs you to distance yourself from a situation to assess it clearly

16. Duties to adopt certain ends - many are imperfect in that they do not specify how - when - or for whom they should be achieved

17. Justice - promise-keeping - allegiance to legitimate government

18. Morality based on religion alone - without any reference to religious ideas

19. Morality and religion are thought to come from a common source of inspiration and knowledge - a source that religion may refer to as God

20. Puts forth the notion of eternal law as the road map for ethics - the ultimate purpose of life was not happiness here on Earth but eternal bliss in the hereafter

21. Process by which patients are asked to consent to procedures after being sufficiently informed to make a rational decision

22. Humans pursue only their own self-interest; all people are equal; three natural causes of quarrel; natural condition of perpetual war; motivation for peace

23. Envisions a society of free citizens holding equal basic rights of cooperating within an egalitarian economic system

24. This lays the groundwork for normative ethics - it deals with the nature of moral judgment. It looks at the origins of meaning of ethical principles. It studies the nature of morality and questions the abstract meaning of ethical terms

25. Bad character traits

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