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Proximity Ethics: The Limits of Justice

Brag & Steal 2014. Proximity Ethics: The Limits of Justice. Cris Wildermuth, EdD , SPHR Drake University www.drake.edu/alop criswildermuth@drake.edu. WELCOME. Cris Wildermuth, EdD , SPHR Assistant Professor Drake University Master of Science in Leadership Development

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Proximity Ethics: The Limits of Justice

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  1. Brag & Steal 2014 Proximity Ethics: The Limits of Justice Cris Wildermuth, EdD, SPHR Drake University www.drake.edu/alop criswildermuth@drake.edu

  2. WELCOME Cris Wildermuth, EdD, SPHR Assistant Professor Drake University Master of Science in Leadership Development www.drake.edu/leadership cris.wildermuth@drake.edu

  3. Are you ethical?

  4. Road Map

  5. Road Map

  6. Flexibility

  7. Nature of the Problem

  8. What is a moral dilemma?

  9. Unclear solution

  10. Significant Impact

  11. Hard to find “right” or “wrong” answers

  12. Whatever you do…

  13. Think of a moral dilemma • Think of a moral dilemma related to your professional role. You may choose a fictional, albeit it possible dilemma faced by someone in your field.

  14. Discussion • Share your fictional moral dilemma with a partner.

  15. What is the right thing to do? • Moral dilemmas • Ethical paradigms

  16. Ethical Paradigms

  17. Justice “A person’s sense of justice is what is most distinctively and fundamentally moral. One can act morally and question all rules, one may act morally and question the greater good, but one cannot act morally and question the need for justice.” (Kohlberg, 1981, p. 296)

  18. What is a just society? • “To ask whether a society is just is to ask how it distributes the things we prize – income and wealth, duties and rights, powers and opportunities, offices and honors. A just society distributes these goods in the right way; it gives each person his or her due” Sandel, 2009, p. 19

  19. What is a just society? • “To ask whether a society is just is to ask how it distributes the things we prize – income and wealth, duties and rights, powers and opportunities, offices and honors. A just society distributes these goods in the right way; it gives each person his or her due” Sandel, 2009, p. 19

  20. Sharing our pie

  21. Bringing it home • What does justice mean in your professional field? • What resources and burdens are we talking about?

  22. What is just? Immanuel Kant: What is right. Your duty. Always.

  23. The Murderer • “John” asks to hide in your basement to escape the clutches of a murderer. You agree. The murderer knocks at your door and asks: “Is John in your basement?” What do you answer?

  24. What is just? Jeremy Bentham: More happiness than pain. For more people.

  25. The Child • A child is hidden in the basement of a city, lonely and miserable. If her presence in the basement brings happiness to an entire city, should she be kept in the basement? Ursula Le Guin, “The Ones who Walk Away From Omelas”

  26. What is right? Carol Gilligan Maximize love. Minimize hurt. Preserve relationships The Ethic of Care

  27. Women & The Ethic of Care

  28. Circles of Ethics

  29. Background: Code of Ethics

  30. What would be the first principle of YOUR Code of Ethics?

  31. For whom would I violate my own Code?

  32. yup, that’s me

  33. Circles of Ethics country community family you

  34. Why does this matter? country community family CARE Empathy relationships JUSTICE fairness you

  35. Proximity • “The feeling of nearness (social, cultural, psychological, or physical) that the moral agent has for victims (beneficiaries) of the evil (beneficial) act in question” Jones, 1991, p. 376

  36. We may “think differently” about ethics as we move farther away from the center of our circle

  37. “Justice” may require a certain level of “detachment”

  38. “Care” may require empathy and proximity

  39. Why does proximity matter?

  40. Ethics & Rationality

  41. Moral Intuition • An ultra fast “gut reaction” when we are confronted with a moral dilemma.

  42. Reach a conclusion, then justify it.

  43. Millisecond Decisions How many decisions do you make in a day? Cheigh, 2004

  44. Fundamental Attribution Bias • If you are close to me, situational circumstances explain your behavior • If you are far from me, your own will and choices explain your behavior Jones, 1991

  45. Fundamental Attribution Bias • Our own neighbor might murder someone in self defense or out of deep feelings of depression. • A stranger on the other side of the world is just a murderer.

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