30 Questions
According to the text, what is moral conscience?
A judgment of reason recognizing the moral quality of an act
What are the securities of the conscience mentioned in the text?
Certainty, doubtful, perplexed
Where did the Principlist bioethics originate from?
North American context
What is the commitment to seek the good of the patient called?
Beneficence
According to Principlist bioethics, what are the two conditions for autonomy?
Freedom and capacity for action
What is the proposal of Principlist bioethics based on?
Belmont Report of 1978
According to the text, which principle implies the obligation to seek one's own fulfillment by also participating in the fulfillment of the good of others?
Principle of Sociability
What is the principle that obliges the community to guarantee access to necessary care, even at the cost of sacrifice for those in affluent social positions?
Principle of Subsidiarity
In the context of social justice, which principle implies that higher levels of society should help, but not supplant, lower levels such as individuals, families, and associations?
Principle of Subsidiarity
Which principle indicates that in order to save the whole and the very life of the subject, it is necessary to intervene even by mutilating a part of the organism?
Principle of Totality
Which principle requires evaluation of the context of the whole person and an adequate proportion between risks, harms, and benefits of a therapy or treatment?
Rule of Proportionality of Therapies
Which principle obliges each and every person to seek their own fulfillment by participating in the fulfillment of the good of others?
Principle of Sociability
What principle implies that in some cases, it is necessary for a physician to make use of their responsibility by inviting the patient to reflect or refusing to participate in certain actions?
Principle of Defense of Physical Life
Which principle indicates that life and health are entrusted primarily to the patient's responsibility?
Principle of Defense of Physical Life
What principle requires that there should be an adequate proportion between the risks and harms a therapy entails and the benefits it procures?
Rule of Proportionality of Therapies
In terms social justice, which principle obliges the community to guarantee access to necessary care?
Principle of Subsidiarity
Which principle implies that higher levels of society should help, but not supplant, lower levels such as individuals, families, and associations?
Principle of Subsidiarity
According to the text, which principle obliges individuals to promote the life and health of each other and fosters the common good by promoting the good of each other?
Principle Sociability
What is the basis for considerations on issues such as informed consent or refusal of medical treatment?
Personalist model
Which model proposes a pragmatic morality of calculating evaluable utility and the relationship between cost and benefit?
Pragmatic-utilitarian model
According to the text, what is a disadvantage of the pragmatic-utilitarian model?
It cannot weight the goods
What is the criterion of an inter-subjective agreement stipulated by an ethical community?
Contractual model
Which model places the dignity of the human person as the fundamental criterion for the theoretical study and practical discernment of ethical issues?
Personalist model
What is the basis for the dignity of man according to the personalist model?
Spiritual dimension and self-awareness
Which principle is based on defending the physical life and spiritual dimension of human life?
Principle of the defense of human life and its inviolability
What is a disadvantage of the contractual model according to the text?
It reduces the conception of the human person to a sociological concept
What is a consequence of free acts according to the personalist model?
The use of freedom for evil means a bad use of our freedom
What does Engelhardt establish for bioethics-contractualism?
The principle of doing the good that the patient understands as good for him/her
What is particularly advantageous for healthcare personnel according to the text?
The minimum agreement based on an ethical contract shared by all in an ethical community
What is a disadvantage of narrative ethics according to the text?
It makes a synthesis between collective principles received and particularities of each person
Test your knowledge of bioethics and moral conscience with this quiz. Explore concepts such as the judgment of reason, seeking the good, and the correspondence between subjective ethical judgment and the objectivity of an act.
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