Ethics Course Handout - Oklahoma Physical Therapy Association
... idea of what you mean by 'professionalism.' It appears to mean getting one's way by cheating and manipulating. It appears to mean serving the dictates of greed and advantage rather than those of goodness and the desire to see justice prevail in the world. If that is the 'professionalism' you refer t ...
... idea of what you mean by 'professionalism.' It appears to mean getting one's way by cheating and manipulating. It appears to mean serving the dictates of greed and advantage rather than those of goodness and the desire to see justice prevail in the world. If that is the 'professionalism' you refer t ...
2. NOTIONS OF MORALITY (notes)
... • There is no objective “truth” in morality. Right and wrong are only matters of opinion, and opinions vary from culture to ...
... • There is no objective “truth” in morality. Right and wrong are only matters of opinion, and opinions vary from culture to ...
Scientific and technological progress
... into public action. By public action is meant action taken by public authority, as well as actions taken by private agents [which have] important consequences for the life of the community. The central question is: How can moral guidelines influence the decisions of those who hold power? " Internati ...
... into public action. By public action is meant action taken by public authority, as well as actions taken by private agents [which have] important consequences for the life of the community. The central question is: How can moral guidelines influence the decisions of those who hold power? " Internati ...
Ethics & Values
... – Private, personal standards of right and wrong • Laws reflect moral values of society • Nurses have ethical responsibility to be client advocates ...
... – Private, personal standards of right and wrong • Laws reflect moral values of society • Nurses have ethical responsibility to be client advocates ...
Why Ethics?
... Everyone disagrees about ethics, so who is to say what is right? Ethics is relative to your culture, so it is offensive to impose your values on to ...
... Everyone disagrees about ethics, so who is to say what is right? Ethics is relative to your culture, so it is offensive to impose your values on to ...
Aristotle Reading Study Guide Phil 240 Introduction to Ethical
... Because we can become virtuous only by performing virtuous acts, moral education is very important on Aristotle's view. Aristotle spends most of the book discussing the nature of particular virtues, and their role in the good life. In the end he concludes that although any life of virtue is valuable ...
... Because we can become virtuous only by performing virtuous acts, moral education is very important on Aristotle's view. Aristotle spends most of the book discussing the nature of particular virtues, and their role in the good life. In the end he concludes that although any life of virtue is valuable ...
Constitutional Law - Mercer University
... followed so that human behavior and conduct may be morally right It is primarily concerned with establishing standards or norms for conduct and is commonly associated with investigating how one ought to act It involves the critical study of major moral precepts, such as what things are right, wh ...
... followed so that human behavior and conduct may be morally right It is primarily concerned with establishing standards or norms for conduct and is commonly associated with investigating how one ought to act It involves the critical study of major moral precepts, such as what things are right, wh ...
Minimal Ethics
... reasonable conclusion: it is essential to be modest in ethics and not to adopt major philosophical systems that exclude a priori any rival moral concepts. Ruwen Ogien’s project can therefore be understood as an epistemological critique of the most robust moral theories which clearly show their metho ...
... reasonable conclusion: it is essential to be modest in ethics and not to adopt major philosophical systems that exclude a priori any rival moral concepts. Ruwen Ogien’s project can therefore be understood as an epistemological critique of the most robust moral theories which clearly show their metho ...
Ethical Theories - Almaty Management University
... to love and care for ourselves and other people. We should cultivate loving and caring relationships in our conduct instead of relying on abstract concepts and principles In some ways, the ethics of care provides a modern rendition of Jesus’ instruction to love your neighbor as you love yourself ...
... to love and care for ourselves and other people. We should cultivate loving and caring relationships in our conduct instead of relying on abstract concepts and principles In some ways, the ethics of care provides a modern rendition of Jesus’ instruction to love your neighbor as you love yourself ...
Introduction to Ethical Theory II
... action it is. What matters is doing our duty. There are many kinds of deontological theory ...
... action it is. What matters is doing our duty. There are many kinds of deontological theory ...
Subjectivism in Ethics
... The point is not to ridicule the Bible, for it contains much that is true and wise. We may nevertheless conclude that what is written in the Bible is not always right. Since the Bible is not always right, we cannot conclude that homosexuality is an abomination just because the Bible says so. ...
... The point is not to ridicule the Bible, for it contains much that is true and wise. We may nevertheless conclude that what is written in the Bible is not always right. Since the Bible is not always right, we cannot conclude that homosexuality is an abomination just because the Bible says so. ...
Business Ethics
... mechanisms do not effectively inform owners and managers about how to respond to complex issues and crises that have far-reaching ethical consequences. For example: did Microsoft act unethically while becoming the dominant player in its industry in free-market environment? A third argument holds; ...
... mechanisms do not effectively inform owners and managers about how to respond to complex issues and crises that have far-reaching ethical consequences. For example: did Microsoft act unethically while becoming the dominant player in its industry in free-market environment? A third argument holds; ...
Sample File - 2
... how to recognize and break through patterns of resistance that prevent them from analyzing their worldviews. • how to construct a moral argument. • how to recognize and avoid logical fallacies. • how to resolve moral dilemmas. ...
... how to recognize and break through patterns of resistance that prevent them from analyzing their worldviews. • how to construct a moral argument. • how to recognize and avoid logical fallacies. • how to resolve moral dilemmas. ...
Business Ethics
... part in the lie, not to support deceit. Let the lie come into the world, even dominate the world, but not through me.” -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn ...
... part in the lie, not to support deceit. Let the lie come into the world, even dominate the world, but not through me.” -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn ...
Ethical Decision Making: Black, White and Shades of Gray
... staff. Nominal is considered to be less than $15. A report has just come in your hotline that one of your longest, most dependable, and best-loved employees, who is set to retire next year, six months ago accepted an old car from the family of a resident who died. • What do you do? ...
... staff. Nominal is considered to be less than $15. A report has just come in your hotline that one of your longest, most dependable, and best-loved employees, who is set to retire next year, six months ago accepted an old car from the family of a resident who died. • What do you do? ...
Andrew Baker - Georgetown Commons
... (Pojman, 1994, p.240). Pojman asserts that this anthropological thesis is fairly self evident. There are few, if any, universal moral codes that apply within all cultures. Conventional ethical relativism uses cultural relativism as its base, and further states that “all valid moral principles are ju ...
... (Pojman, 1994, p.240). Pojman asserts that this anthropological thesis is fairly self evident. There are few, if any, universal moral codes that apply within all cultures. Conventional ethical relativism uses cultural relativism as its base, and further states that “all valid moral principles are ju ...
Oct. 18 - Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
... There is a “social contract” between individuals and society where everyone gains (is not hurt) This leads to legal contract i.e. Laws Hence the connection between laws,ethics, morality Laws about driving (on the left or right) or protecting intellectual Property may not be inherently moral but they ...
... There is a “social contract” between individuals and society where everyone gains (is not hurt) This leads to legal contract i.e. Laws Hence the connection between laws,ethics, morality Laws about driving (on the left or right) or protecting intellectual Property may not be inherently moral but they ...
Biology and Society Unit Three: Ethics Branches of Philosophy
... discharge moral obligations to moral subjects. Therefore, until we discover rational life-forms other than human beings, only human beings can be moral agents. Moral Followers) Moral followers are those human beings that are unable to independently identify moral obligations toward moral subjects, b ...
... discharge moral obligations to moral subjects. Therefore, until we discover rational life-forms other than human beings, only human beings can be moral agents. Moral Followers) Moral followers are those human beings that are unable to independently identify moral obligations toward moral subjects, b ...
Ethics: Discovering Right and Wrong
... What is the good, and how will I know it? Is it in my interest to be moral? What is the relationship between: morality and religion? morality and the law? morality and etiquette? ...
... What is the good, and how will I know it? Is it in my interest to be moral? What is the relationship between: morality and religion? morality and the law? morality and etiquette? ...
STOLZE - PHILOSOPHY 102
... “For preference utilitarians, taking the life of a person will normally be worse than taking the life of some other being, because persons are highly future-oriented in their preferences. To kill a person is therefore, normally, to violate not just one but a wide range of the most central and signif ...
... “For preference utilitarians, taking the life of a person will normally be worse than taking the life of some other being, because persons are highly future-oriented in their preferences. To kill a person is therefore, normally, to violate not just one but a wide range of the most central and signif ...
Moral Problems
... Thinking an action to be right makes it right for the individual or society that thinks it to be right. Objectivism: beliefs are made true not merely by believing them but by their correspondence to the facts. ...
... Thinking an action to be right makes it right for the individual or society that thinks it to be right. Objectivism: beliefs are made true not merely by believing them but by their correspondence to the facts. ...
Ethics in Field Education
... Field instructors play multiple, significant roles in the preparation of the next generation of social work professionals. They are teachers, mentors, evaluators, supervisors, and also learners, as students expose them to novel problems and questions. This session is designed to help participants co ...
... Field instructors play multiple, significant roles in the preparation of the next generation of social work professionals. They are teachers, mentors, evaluators, supervisors, and also learners, as students expose them to novel problems and questions. This session is designed to help participants co ...
Ethics Theories
... also do the right thing. Both the motive and the act must be morally relevant. (Any contradiction with the previous condition that as long as the motive is good the consequences of the act is not important?) Categorical imperative (imperative is a statement that tells us what to do) Moral act that ...
... also do the right thing. Both the motive and the act must be morally relevant. (Any contradiction with the previous condition that as long as the motive is good the consequences of the act is not important?) Categorical imperative (imperative is a statement that tells us what to do) Moral act that ...
From Ethical Theory to Practice
... Meta-Ethics: Defining the meaning of moral concepts. E.g., Are ethical claims relative or universal? What does the term ‘good’ mean? What role does reason play in ethical judgments? Normative Ethics: What principles ought to guide us making ethical decisions? Practical Ethics: An examination of part ...
... Meta-Ethics: Defining the meaning of moral concepts. E.g., Are ethical claims relative or universal? What does the term ‘good’ mean? What role does reason play in ethical judgments? Normative Ethics: What principles ought to guide us making ethical decisions? Practical Ethics: An examination of part ...
Today`s 1st Topic: The Challenge of Cultural Relativism
... Cultural Relativism Were True? 3. The idea of moral progress is called into doubt. ...
... Cultural Relativism Were True? 3. The idea of moral progress is called into doubt. ...
Alasdair MacIntyre
Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (born 1929) is a Scottish philosopher primarily known for his contribution to moral and political philosophy but known also for his work in history of philosophy and theology. He is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics (CASEP) at London Metropolitan University, and an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. During his lengthy academic career, he also taught at Brandeis University, Duke University, Vanderbilt University, and Boston University. Macintyre's After Virtue (1981) is widely recognised as one of the most important works of Anglophone moral and political philosophy in the 20th century.