Kategorier: Alle - standards - rights - decisions - approaches

av zeinab amr 13 år siden

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ethical thinking

Ethical thinking involves understanding that ethics is distinct from science, religion, cultural norms, law, and personal feelings. To make ethical decisions, one must evaluate alternative actions, make and test decisions, gather facts, act, and reflect on outcomes, and recognize ethical issues.

ethical thinking

framework for ethical thinking

4)Making ethical decisions

Act and Reflect on the Outcome
Make a Decision and Test It
Evaluate Alternative Actions
Get the Facts
Recognize an Ethical Issue

3)Putting the Approaches Together

each approach gives us important information to determine what is ethical in a particular situation

2)Ethical standards

The Virtue Approach:ethical actions ought to be consistent with certain ideal virtues that provide for the full development of our humanity
The Common Good Approach:the notion that life in community is a good in itself and our actions should contribute to that life
The Fairness or Justice Approach:the idea that all equals should be treated equally
The Rights Approach:that best protects and respects the moral rights
The Utilitarian Approach:provides the most good or does the least harm

1)ethics:

Ethics is not science
Ethics is not following culturally accepted norms
ethics is not following the law
ethics is not religion
ethic is not feelings
behavior that tell us how people should act