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Here is a list of the terms and definitions on each card.

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Term: Moral agency
Definition: An entity has moral agency if it is capable of understanding moral principles, is capable of responding to moral reasons, and is able to accept praise or blame.
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Term: Moral accountability
Definition: An agent is morally accountable for an action and its consequences if, and only if, we should be prepared to praise or blame her for her freely made decision and for its results.
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Term: Moral standing
Definition: A person, organization, or nonhuman entity has moral standing if we must consider his, her, or its interests in making an ethical decision.
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Term: Identity-based approach
Definition: An identity-based approach to ethical reasoning focuses on what sort of person (organization) the agent (organization) is becoming, on whether she (it) is virtuous and has a good character.
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Term: Consequence-based approach
Definition: A consequence-based approach to ethics focuses on the results or outcomes of the action, and maximizes net benefits to all concerned.
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Term: Principle-based approach
Definition: A principle-based approach to ethical reasoning looks at the decision-maker’s motivations. It assesses the decision as right or wrong according to what ethical principles the agent follows, or does not follow, when she makes her decision.
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Term: Virtue
Definition: A virtue is a stable character trait with positive moral significance. Examples are courage, generosity, benevolence, and fairness.
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Term: Care ethics
Definition: A care ethics is an ethical approach based in the special relationships, like that of mother and child, which people have to one another, and in the relationship skills and emotional traits that make such attachments possible.
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Term: Vice
Definition: A vice is a stable character trait with negative moral significance. Examples are avarice, cowardice, dishonesty, and sleaziness.
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Term: Virtue ethics
Definition: A virtue ethics holds that persons and organizations ought to cultivate a virtuous or morally excellent character.
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Term: Ethical egoism
Definition: Ethical egoism is the ethical theory that agents ought always to maximize their own self-interest.
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Term: Duty-based theories
Definition: In duty-based theories of ethics, the agent should follow the principle of doing his or her duty, regardless of the consequences.
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Term: Utilitarianism
Definition: Utilitarianism requires agents to make those decisions that maximize positive mental states (subjective states) in themselves and others.
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Term: Objective consequentialism
Definition: Objective consequentialism requires agents to make those decisions which lead to the best consequences from a point of view that is independent of the psychological states of individual people.
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Term: Justice-based theories
Definition: In justice-based theories, the moral principles that agents should follow in their decisions involve treating others as moral equals.
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Term: Rights-based theories
Definition: In rights-based theories, the moral principles that agents should follow in their decisions involve respecting the moral rights of others.