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Chapter 1. Understanding Ethics. McGraw-Hill. “Ethics is about how we meet the challenge of doing the right thing when that will cost more than we want to pay” The Josephson Institute of Ethics. What is Ethics?.

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  1. Chapter 1 Understanding Ethics McGraw-Hill

  2. “Ethics is about how we meet the challenge of doing the right thing when that will cost more than we want to pay” The Josephson Institute of Ethics

  3. What is Ethics? How people try to live their lives according to a standard of “right” or “wrong” behaviors -- in both how we think and behave toward others and how we would like them to think and behave toward us.

  4. Understanding Right and Wrong • Developing your own ‘Moral Compass’ • How Should I live? • The Value of a Value – intrinsic; instrumental • Value Conflicts • Doing The Right Thing • The Golden Rule – Do unto others as you would have them do unto you

  5. Ethical Theories • Virtue Ethics • Utilitarianism (Ethics for the Greater Good) • Universal Ethics

  6. Ethical Relativism Where the traditions of your society, your personal opinions, and the circumstances of the present moment define your ethical principles.

  7. Ethical Dilemmas Where the decision you must make requires you to make a ‘right’ choice knowing full well that you are: • Leaving an equally ‘right’ choice undone. • Likely to suffer something bad as a result of that choice. • Contradicting a personal ethical principle in making that choice. • Abandoning an ethical value of your community or society in making that choice.

  8. Resolving Ethical Dilemmas - I • Step One: Analyze the consequences. • Step Two: Analyze the actions. • Step Three: Make a decision.

  9. Resolving Ethical Dilemmas - II • What are the facts? • What can you guess about the facts you don’t know? • What do the facts mean? • What does the problem look like through the eyes of the people involved? • What will happen if you choose one thing rather than another? • What do your feelings tell you? • What will you think of yourself if you decide one thing or another? • Can you explain and justify your decision to others?

  10. Ethical Reasoning

  11. Ethical Reasoning Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development: Level 1: Pre-Conventional: Stage 1: Punishment & Obedience Orientation Stage 2: Individualism, Instrumentalism, & Exchange

  12. Ethical Reasoning Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development: Level 2: Conventional: Stage 3: “Good Boy-Nice Girl” Orientation Stage 4: Law & Order Orientation

  13. Ethical Reasoning Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development: Level 3: Post-Conventional: Stage 5: Social-Contract Legalistic Orientation Stage 6: Universal Ethical Principle Orientation

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