Ethics trivia

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• Which ethics, associated with Carol Gilligan and Nel Noddings, puts responsibility for responding to others' needs within concrete relationships at the centre of morality?Ethics
• In research misconduct, what is the name for making up data or results that do not exist?Ethics
• Which branch of ethics surveys and records what different societies actually hold to be right, without evaluating it?Ethics
• Which view holds that a human life has inviolable value in itself, whatever condition it is in?Ethics
• Which position in environmental ethics holds that each individual organism has value of its own, extending moral consideration beyond humans and animals to plants and microbes?Ethics
• Bentham held that the question deciding whether animals count morally is whether they can reason.Ethics
• Kant held that you may not lie even when a murderer asks whether your friend is hiding in your house.Ethics
• Peter Singer used the case of a child drowning in a shallow pond to argue that failing to help starving people in distant countries is also morally wrong.Ethics
• For Epicurus, the pleasure that is the goal of life meant indulging in food and drink as much as possible.Ethics
• Socrates held that anyone who truly knows what is right will not do wrong.Ethics
• What did Kant call a command that carries no condition and must be followed for its own sake?Ethics
• Which view holds that standards of right and wrong shift with the society and the age?Ethics
• What is the name for euthanasia carried out at the patient's own clear and repeated request?Ethics
• What did Peter Singer call the attitude of discounting an interest because it belongs to another species?Ethics
• Which metaethical position holds that moral judgements are statements of fact that can be true or false?Ethics
• Which branch of utilitarianism decides by asking what follows if everyone keeps a given rule?Ethics
• Which ethical theory takes the greatest happiness of the greatest number as its standard?Ethics
• Which principle of biomedical ethics has the patient decide, once the treatment and its risks have been explained?Ethics
• Aristotle placed courage between recklessness and cowardice. What did he call that position between two extremes?Ethics
• Which branch of ethics deals with questions such as withdrawing life support or allocating organs?Ethics
• In medicine there is a procedure for explaining a treatment and its risks and obtaining the patient's agreement first.Ethics
• Ethics holds that you can move straight from how things are to how they ought to be.Ethics
• The trolley problem has one settled answer, so ethics no longer argues about it.Ethics
• Bentham held that pleasures should be measured by quantity rather than sorted by quality.Ethics
• Aristotle held that virtue is not inborn but settles in through repeated action.Ethics
• Virtue ethics asks what kind of person one should be before it asks what act one should perform.Ethics
• Peter Singer held that an interest may count for less simply because it belongs to another species.Ethics
• Utilitarianism judges an act right or wrong by the size of the happiness its results bring about.Ethics
• The teaching that you should treat others as you would want to be treated turns up across many cultures.Ethics
• Kant held that whether an act is right depends on the results it produces.Ethics