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Ethics is an expression of how individuals decide to live with one another within accepted ___________, principles, and values and how we live in harmony with the environment and one another.

Boundaries

A form of ethics where an individual's personal view of right and wrong, commonly based on personal life experiences, is often referred to as ____________ ethics.

Micro

We study ethics to aid us in making _________ judgments, good decisions, and right choices.

Sound

A code that generally prescribes standards of _________ states principles expressing responsibilities and defines the roles expressing duties of professionals to whom they apply.

Conduct

__________ dilemmas arise when values, rights, duties, and loyalties conflict and when not everyone, consequently, is satisfied with a particular decision.

Moral

Ethical ___________ are universal rules of conduct, derived from theories that provide a practical basis for what kinds of actions, intentions, and motives are valued.

Principles

The obligation to be fair in the distribution of benefits and risks is referred to as ___________.

Justice

___________ ethics focuses on the inherent character of a person rather than on the specific actions that he or she performs.

Virtue

Values may change as needs change. This is often referred to as ____________ ethics.

Situational

What are the pillars that build one's moral strength? What sets each person apart? In the final analysis, it is one’s virtues and values that build moral ____________.

Character

We can learn from __________ how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems.

History

In ethics, ___________ requires each person to be objective, unbiased, dispassionate, impartial, and consistent with the principles of ethics.

Fairness

___________ serves a moral purpose by providing codes of conduct for appropriate behavior through revelations from a divine source.

Religion

The branch of philosophy that deals with values relating to human conduct is __________.

Ethics

__________ is primarily concerned with establishing standards or norms for conduct.

Normative Ethics

The critical study of major moral precepts, such as what things are right and what things are good, is referred to as __________.

General Normative Ethics

__________ is the study of the origin and meaning of ethical concepts. It seeks to understand ethical terms and theories and their application.

Metaethics

__________ implies that there is purpose and meaning to life; it generally refers to faith in a higher being.

Spirituality

__________ is the process of working with others. In the healthcare setting, caregivers must work together to improve patient outcomes.

Cooperation

__________ involves self-control and restraint. It embraces moderation in thoughts and actions.

Temperance

__________ is an attitude of admiration or esteem. Kant was the first major Western philosopher to put respect for persons at the center of moral theory.

Respect

__________ is credited with saying “True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”

Socrates

The __________ ethical theory of ethics denies that the consequences of an action or rule are the only criteria for determining the morality of an action or rule.

Nonconsequential

__________ is the ability to make a good decision without personal biases, fears, and undue influences from others.

Discernment

Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, chief of South Viet Nam’s national police, shot a prisoner in the head. Assuming this is out of one’s moral character, the __________ theory of ethics applies here.

Situational