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LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Describe the concepts of ethics & morality.
- Describe how an understanding of ethical theories, principles, virtues, & values are helpful in resolving ethical dilemmas.
- Explain the relationship between spirituality & religion.
- Discuss situational ethics & how one’s moral character can change as circumstances change.
- Explain how one’s reasoning skills influence the decision-making process.
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I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness I can show to any creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer it, for I shall not pass this way again
−Stephen Grellet
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Ethics
- Branch of philosophy that deals with values relating to human conduct with respect to rightness & wrongness of actions & goodness & badness of motives & ends.
- Focus on rightness & wrongness of actions.
- Concerned with what is morally good & bad, right & wrong.
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Ethics – II
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- Microethics
- individual’s view of right & wrong.
- Macroethics
- global view of right & wrong.
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Ethics – III
- Philosophical Ethics
- involves inquiry into
- ways of life
- rules of conduct
- Religious Ethics
- a general pattern or“Way of Life”
- Professional Ethics
- a set of rules or moral code
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Morality
- Code of conduct
- Guide to behavior
- Describes class of rules held by society to govern conduct
- Moral dilemmas occur
- when moral ideas of right & wrong conflict
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Morality Legislated
- Law is distinguished from morality in that
- law has explicit rules, penalties, & officials who interpret laws & apply penalties.
- Laws created to set boundaries for societal behavior.
- laws are enforced to ensure expected behavior happens.
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