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What is the definition of Justice?
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-Fairness
- Equality - Impartiality - appropriate rewards and punishments |
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Distributuve justice is concerned with
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The allocation of goods and burdens of society
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Corrective Justice is concerned with
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Concerned with punishment and sanctions
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Commutative Justice
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Fairness of contracts and burden relations
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Substantive Justice involves
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The appropriate amount of punishment for a crime
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Procedural is concerned with
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The steps taken before adminstering punishment.
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What two basic paradigms aid our understanding in the function of law and society
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(1) consensus
(2) conflict |
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What is the function of repressive law
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The maintence of social cohesion
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According to Baez, what characteristics must an ethical system contain
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(1) Prescriptive- behavior is demanded
(2) Authoritative- not subject to debate (3) Logically impartial or universal (4) not self- serving |
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Morality according to ______ arises from the fact that humans, as rational beings, impose laws and structures of behavior upon themselves.
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Emmanuel Kant
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What type of ethical system is utilitarianism
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Telelogical ethical system
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What is an important criticism of the utilitarianism ethical system?
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- little concern with individual rights
- the system presumes that one can predict the consequences of one's action - all pleasures or benefits are not equal |
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In what 3 ways, according to Barry, can people know God's will?
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(1) individual conscience
(2) religious authorities (3) holy scriptures |
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What question does the ethics of virtues strive to answer
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What is a good person?
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Moral pluralism is balance between______ and ______
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Absolutism and relativism
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