Ethics Test 2

Front 1

Solve population problem through coercion or let people die.

Back 1

Hardin

Front 2

Give up luxuries to aid global poor.

Back 2

Singer

Front 3

Sometimes we must choose the environment over people; redistribution of wealth.

Back 3

Rolston

Front 4

Population is decreasing, we don't have to do anything.

Back 4

Willott

Front 5

Richer nations should take on more of the burden of climate change; principles of equity

Back 5

Shue

Front 6

Need to develop new approach to solve global warming.

Back 6

Jameison

Front 7

Climate change is perfect moral storm.

Back 7

Gardiner

Front 8

We ought to do philosophical work that is relevant to policy discussions; fragile freedoms

Back 8

Norton

Front 9

Protector of whales.

Back 9

Watson

Front 10

Explore whether philosophy can contribute to activism

Back 10

Rawles

Front 11

Ethical theory is relevant.

Back 11

Callicott

Front 12

Strawman Argument

Back 12

An argument that's easily defeated.

Front 13

Duty of Beneficence

Back 13

A duty to hlep others that does not depend on a specific relationship, but only on the loss to you, their neediness and the gain to them.

Front 14

Strong Principle of Sacrifice

Back 14

If you can prevent something bad from happening without sacrificing anything of comparable moral significance, you ought to do so.

Front 15

Moderate Principle of Sacrifice

Back 15

If you can prevent something very bad from happening without sacrificing anything morally significant, you ought to do so.

Front 16

Supererogatory

Back 16

Above and beyond the call of duty.

Front 17

Equity

Back 17

Fairness, a distributive notion.

Front 18

Rate of Groth

Back 18

=(final population - initial population)/initial population X100%

Front 19

Anthropogenic

Back 19

Caused by humans.

Front 20

System of Values

Back 20

What we are morally permitted to do/prohibited from doing; what is valuable/what is not; objective; implicit

Front 21

Perfect Storm

Back 21

An event constituted by an unusual convergence of independently harmful factors where this convergence is likely to result in substantial and possibly catastrophic, negative outcomes

Front 22

Fragmentation of Agency

Back 22

Not caused by a single agent, but by a vast number of individuals and institutions that aren't controlled by one person or group of people

Front 23

Institutional Inadequacy

Back 23

The lack of an effective system of global governance and the problem this poses.

Front 24

Conservationists

Back 24

See natural ecosystems and other species as resources and are concerned mainly with the wise use of them.

Front 25

Economic Reductionism

Back 25

Interprets values as individual preferences expressed in free markets.

Front 26

Preservationists

Back 26

Committed to protecting large areas of the landscape from alternation.

Front 27

Holism

Back 27

The view that humans and nature exist as part of a spiritual whole.

Front 28

Fragile Freedoms

Back 28

Freedoms that depend on the relatively stable environmental context in which they have evolved

Front 29

Activism

Back 29

Takes direct action to achieve a political or social goal

Front 30

Philosophy

Back 30

Academic discipline concerned with making explicit the nature and significance of beliefs and investigating the intelligibility of concepts by means of rational argument.