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Understanding
Ethics
McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
“Ethics is about how we meet the challenge of
doing the right thing when that will cost more
than we want to pay”
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What is Ethics?
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What is Ethics?
• Understanding ‘Right’ and ‘Wrong’
• Developing your own ‘Moral Compass’
• Doing The Right Thing’
• Value Conflicts
• ‘The Golden Rule’
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What is Ethics?
• Understanding ‘Right’ and ‘Wrong’
– Moral standards are principles based on
religions, cultural or philosophical beliefs by
which judgments are made about good or bad
behavior.
– These beliefs can come from many different
sources such as friend, family, ethnic
background, religion, school, medias and
personal role models/mentor.
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What is Ethics?
• Developing your own ‘Moral Compass’
– Your personal set of morals - your morality –
represent a collection of all these influences
as they are up over your lifetime.
– A strict family upbringing or religious education
background would obviously have a direct
impact on your personal morals.
– These standards would then provide a moral
compass to guide you in the choices you
make in your life.
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What is Ethics?
• Doing the right things (how should I live?)
– When a person trying to formalise personal
principles into a code behavior, he/she is seen
to be adopting a value system.
– A person’s values have a specific worth which
can be expressed into ways ie intrinsic and
instrumental values.
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What is Ethics?
• Value Conflicts
– Lying is wrong – but what if you were lying to
protect the life of loved one?
– Stealing is wrong – but what if you were
stealing food a starving child?
– Killing is wrong – but what if you had to kill
someone in self defense to protect your life?
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Ethical Theories
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Ethical Dilemmas
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Resolving Ethical Dilemmas - I
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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?
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Ethical Reasoning
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Ethical Reasoning
Level 1: Pre-Conventional:
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Ethical Reasoning
Level 2: Conventional:
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Ethical Reasoning
Level 3: Post-Conventional:
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