GE8076 -PROFESSIONAL ETHICS IN ENGINEERING UNIT NOTES
UNIT I HUMAN VALUES 10
Morals, values and Ethics – Integrity – Work ethic – Service learning – Civic virtue – Respect for others – Living peacefully – Caring – Sharing – Honesty – Courage – Valuing time – Cooperation –Commitment – Empathy – Self confidence – Character – Spirituality – Introduction to Yoga and meditation for professional excellence and stress management
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1. P1WU
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2. SYLLABUS
UNIT I HUMAN VALUES
1. Morals, values and Ethics
2. Integrity
3. Work ethic
4. Service learning
5. Civic virtue
6. Respect for others
7. Living peacefully
8. Caring
9. Sharing
10. Honesty
11. Valuing time
12. Cooperation
13. Commitment
14. Empathy
15. Self confidence
16. Character Spirituality
17. Introduction to Yoga and
meditation for professional
excellence and stress
management.
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3. What are human values?
• Values decide the standard of behavior.
• Some universally accepted values are freedom justice and equality.
• Other principles of values are love, care, honesty, integrity, self
respect.
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4. What do mean by Human Values?
• Basic human values refer to those values which are at the core of being human.
• The values which are considered basic inherent values in humans include
• truth,
• honesty,
• loyalty,
• love,
• peace, etc
• They bring out the fundamental goodness of human beings and society at large.
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5. What do mean by Human Values?
• Basic human values refer to those values which are at the core of being human.
• The values which are considered basic inherent values in humans include
• truth,
• honesty,
• loyalty,
• love,
• peace, etc
• They bring out the fundamental goodness of human beings and society at large.
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6. What is truth human values?
• Truth is not relative, changing according to our perceptions and
circumstances.
• Truth manifests as being truthful, honest, and sincere, acting with
integrity according to the dictates of our conscience.
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7. What is human values love?
• The human value of love can best be expressed as the all-pervading life
energy.
• In other words, this value has nothing to do with emotion, passionate
feeling, desire or attachment.
• Love refers to something much deeper and more fundamental in
the human nature.
• It is being selfless and detached from mutual expectations.
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8. Why human values are important in our life?
• Our values inform our thoughts, words, and actions.
• Our values are important because they help us to grow and develop.
They help us to create the future we want to experience.
• The decisions we make are a reflection of our values and beliefs, and
they are always directed towards a specific purpose.
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9. TOPIC 1: Morals, Values and Ethics
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10. MORALS
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11. MORALS
• Morals are guiding principles that every citizen should hold.
• Morals are foundational concepts defined on both an individual and
societal level.
• At the most basic level, morals are the knowledge of the difference
between right and wrong.
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12. MORALS
• mor·al
• /ˈmôrəl/
• noun
• plural noun: morals
• a lesson, especially one concerning what is right or prudent, that can
be derived from a story, a piece of information, or an experience.
• "the moral of this story was that one must see the beauty in what one
has"
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13. MORALS
• Morals are guiding principles that every citizen should
hold.
• Morals are foundational concepts defined on both an
individual and societal level.
• At the most basic level, morals are the knowledge of
the difference between right and wrong.
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14. What does it mean to have morals?
• Morals are the prevailing standards of behavior that
enable people to live cooperatively in groups.
• Moral refers to what societies sanction as right and
acceptable. Most people tend to act morally and
follow societal guidelines.
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15. Do we need morals?
• Our results show that we consider
• moral traits so important
• In others,
• in part,
• because a person's morality can benefit us in some way.
• Moral traits have social value.
• From an adaptive perspective:
• moral traits signal to us whether we should approach or avoid and whether we
should affiliate with that person.
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16. MORAL REASONS
Moral reasons include:
• Respecting others and ourselves,
• Respecting the rights of others,
• Keeping promises,
• Avoiding unnecessary problems to others
• Avoiding cheating and dishonesty,
• Showing gratitude to others and encourage them to work
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17. What is the best definition of morality?
• Morality is the belief that some behavior is right and
acceptable and that other behavior is wrong.
• A morality is a system of principles and values
concerning people's behavior, which is generally
accepted by a society or by a particular group of
people.
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18. What is the best definition of morality?
• The term ‘morality’ concerns with:
• What ought or ought not to be done in a given situation?
• What is right or wrong in handling it?
• What is good or bad about the persons, policies and principles
involved in it?
• If an action is said to be morally right it should had some
moral reasons.
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19. What are moral lessons?
• A moral (from Latin morālis) is a message that is conveyed
or a lesson to be learned from a story or event.
• The moral may be left to the hearer, reader, or viewer to
determine for themselves, or may be explicitly
encapsulated in a maxim.
• A moral is a lesson in a story or in real life.
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20. What are examples of morals?
• While morals tend to be driven by personal beliefs and values, there are
certainly some common morals that most people agree on, such as:
1. Always tell the truth.
2. Do not destroy property.
3. Have courage.
4. Keep your promises.
5. Do not cheat.
6. Treat others as you want to be treated.
7. Do not judge.
8. Be dependable.
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21. What is a person with no morals?
• Morals are the principles we follow that help us know the
difference between right and wrong.
• When someone is immoral, they make decisions that
purposely violate a moral agreement.
• Immoral is sometimes confused with amoral, which
describes someone who has no morals and doesn't know
what right or wrong means.
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22. VARIETIES or APPROACHES OF MORAL ISSUES
• MICRO-ETHICS emphasizes typically everyday problems that can take
on significant proportions in an engineer‟s life or entire engineering
office.
• MACRO-ETHICS addresses societal problems that are often shunted
aside and are not addressed until they unexpectedly resurface on a
regional or national scale.
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23. MORAL PROBLEMS IN ENGINEERING
(SOME EXAMPLES)
• An inspector discovered faulty construction equipment and applied a violation
tag, preventing its use.
• The supervisor, a construction manager viewed the case as a minor abrasion of
the safety regulations and ordered the removal of the tag to speed up the
project.
• When the inspector objected to this, he was threatened with disciplinary action.
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24. MORAL PROBLEMS IN ENGINEERING
(SOME EXAMPLES)
• An electric utility company applied for a permit to operate a nuclear power plant.
• The licensing agency was interested in knowing what emergency measures had
been established for humans safety in case of reactor malfunctioning.
• The utility engineers described the alarm system and arrangements with local
hospitals for treatment.
• They did not emphasize that this measures applied to plant personnel only and
that they had no plans for the surrounding population.
• When enquired about their omission, they said it was not their responsibility.
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25. MORAL PROBLEMS IN ENGINEERING
(SOME EXAMPLES)
• A chemical plant dumped wastes in a landfill.
• Hazardous substances found their way into the underground water table.
• The plant‟s engineers were aware of the situation but did not change the method
of disposal because their competitors did it the same cheap way, and no law
explicitly forbade the practice.
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26. MORAL PROBLEMS IN ENGINEERING
(SOME EXAMPLES)
• Electronics Company ABC geared up for production of its own version
of a popular new item.
• The product was not yet ready for sale, but even so, pictures and
impressive specifications appeared in advertisements.
• Prospective customers were led to believe that it was available off the
shelf and were drawn away from competing lines.
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27. VALUES
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28. Values
• Values are individual in nature.
• Values are comprised of personal concepts of responsibility,
entitlement and respect.
• Values are shaped by personal experience, may change over the span
of a lifetime and may be influenced by lessons learned.
• Values may vary according to an individual's cultural, ethnic and/or
faith based background.
• “Never change your core values.”
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29. Values
• In spite of all the change around you, decide upon what you will
never change: your core values.
• Take your time to decide what they are but once you do, do not
compromise on them for any reason.
• Integrity is one such value.
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30. Values
• Values are basic and fundamental beliefs that guide or motivate attitudes
or actions.
• They help us to determine what is important to us.
• Values in a narrow sense is that which is good, desirable, or worthwhile.
• Values are the motive behind purposeful action.
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31. How do you define values?
• Values are individual beliefs that motivate people to act one way or
another. They serve as a guide for human behavior.
• Generally, people are predisposed to adopt the values that they are
raised with.
• People also tend to believe that those values are “right” because they
are the values of their particular culture.
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32. What are examples of values?
• Core Values About Life
Some examples of core values people might have about life include
the following:
• A belief, or lack thereof, in God or an affiliation with a religious/spiritual
institution.
• A belief in being a good steward of resources and in exercising frugality.
• A belief that family is of fundamental importance.
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33. Types of human values
• Six Types of Human Values are:
1. Individualistic Values.
• The most inherent value of a person is individualistic which means valuing
the self over anything else in the world. ...
2. Family Values. ...
3. Professional Values. ...
4. National Values. ...
5. Moral Values. ...
6. Spiritual Values.
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34. What are morals and values?
• Values -- an individual's accepted standards of right or wrong.
• Morals -- society's standards of right and wrong, very similar to
ethics.
• Ethics -- a structured system of principles that govern appropriate
conduct for a group, including activities such as professional ethics,
compassion, commitment, cooperation.
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35. ETHICS
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36. PERSONAL ETHICS
• Simply put, all individuals are morally autonomous beings with the
power and right to choose their values, but it does not follow that all
choices and all value systems have an equal claim to be called ethical.
• Actions and beliefs inconsistent with the Six Pillars of Character -
trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and
citizenship – are simply not ethical.
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37. ETHICS
• eth·ics
• /ˈeTHiks/
• Noun
• 1.moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an
activity.
• "medical ethics also enter into the question"
2. the branch of knowledge that deals with moral principles.
• "neither metaphysics nor ethics is the home of religion"
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38. What is the definition of ethics?
• At its simplest, ethics is a system of moral principles. ...
• Ethics is concerned with what is good for individuals and society and
is also described as moral philosophy.
• The term is derived from the Greek word ethos which can mean
custom, habit, character or disposition.
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39. What is the definition of ethics?
• At its simplest, ethics is a system of moral principles.
• They affect how people make decisions and lead their lives.
• Ethics is concerned with what is good for individuals and society and
is also described as moral philosophy.
• The term is derived from the Greek word ethos which can mean
custom, habit, character or disposition.
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40. What is the definition of ethics?
• Ethics covers the following dilemmas:
a) how to live a good life
b) our rights and responsibilities
c) the language of right and wrong
d) moral decisions - what is good and bad?
• Our concepts of ethics have been derived from religions, philosophies and
cultures.
• They infuse debates on topics like abortion, human rights and professional
conduct.
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41. What are ethics?
• Ethics is defined as a moral philosophy or code of morals practiced by
a person or group of people.
• An example of ethics is :
• a the code of conduct set by a business.
• The system or code of morals of a particular person, religion, group,
profession, etc.
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42. Why is ethics important in life?
• Ethics serve as a guide to moral daily living and helps us judge
whether our behavior can be justified.
• Ethics refers to society's sense of the right way of living our daily lives.
• It does this by establishing rules, principles, and values on which we
can base our conduct.
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43. Why do we study ethics?
• The study of ethics helps a person to look at his own life critically and
to evaluate his actions/choices/decisions.
• It assists a person in knowing what he/she really is and what is best
for him/her and what he/she has to do in order to attain it.
• Study of moral philosophy can help us to think better about morality.
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44. Can ethics be taught?
• Yes
• ethics can be taught and learned. Ethics is simply defined as a set of
knowledge in terms ofmoral principles.
• Ethics can be taught at any point in life, but how a learner absorbs it,
understands it, and scans through it is based on his/her way of being
brought up.
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45. Why is ethics important in life?
• Ethics help us navigate the gray area between absolute right and
morally wrong.
• They provide the structure that helps us make a decision we can be
proud of.
• Without ethics, society would be reduced to the type of animal
behaviour that is seen in nature.
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46. What are the 3 types of ethics?
• The three schools are:
1. virtue ethics,
2. consequentialist ethics, and
3. deontological or duty-based ethics.
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47. What are ethical values?
• Trustworthiness,
• Respect,
• Responsibility,
• Fairness,
• Caring
• Etc
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48. What are the five codes of ethics?
• 5 codes of ethics are:
1. Integrity.
2. Objectivity.
3. Professional competence.
4. Confidentiality.
5. Professional behavior.
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49. Approaches to ethics
• Philosophers nowadays tend to divide ethical theories into three areas:
metaethics, normative ethics and applied ethics.
• Meta-ethics deals with the nature of moral judgement. It looks at the origins and
meaning of ethical principles.
• Normative ethics is concerned with the content of moral judgements and the
criteria for what is right or wrong.
• Applied ethics looks at controversial topics like war, animal rights and capital
punishment.
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50. What's the difference between ethics and morals?
• According to this understanding, “ethics” leans towards decisions
based upon individual character, and the more subjective
understanding of right and wrong by individuals.
• Whereas “morals” emphasises the widely-shared communal or
societal norms about right and wrong.
• Morality is central to liking, respecting, and understanding people.
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51. What are the 7 principles of ethics?
• There are seven principles that form the content grounds of our teaching
framework:
1. Non-maleficence.
2. Beneficence.
3. Health maximisation.
4. Efficiency.
5. Respect for autonomy.
6. Justice.
7. Proportionality.
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52. PERSONAL ETHICS - everyday examples
• Software piracy
• Expense account padding
• Copying of homework or tests
• Income taxes
• “Borrowing” nuts and bolts, office supplies from employer
• Copying of Videos or CD‟s
• Plagiarism
• Using the copy machine at work
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53. Is ethical good or bad?
• Both morality and ethics loosely have to do with distinguishing the
difference between “good and bad” or “right and wrong.”
• Many people think of morality as something that's personal and
normative,
• whereas ethics is the standards of “good and bad” distinguished by a
certain community or social setting.
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54. RELIGION AND ETHICS
• The “Golden Rule” is a basic tenet in almost all religions: Christian, Hindu,
Jewish, Confucian, Buddhist, Muslim.
•
• “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.”
• “Treat others as you would like them to treat you” (Christian).
• “Hurt not others with that which pains you” (Buddhist)
• “What is hateful to yourself do not do to your fellow men” (Judaism)
• “No man is a true believer unless he desires for his brother that which he
desires for himself” (Islam)
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55. MORALITY AND ETHICS
• Concerns the goodness of voluntary human conduct that affects the self or
other living things
• Morality (Latin mores) usually refers to any aspect of human action
• Ethics (Greek ethos) commonly refers only to professional behavior
• Ethics consist of the application of fundamental moral principles and reflect
our dedication to fair treatment of each other, and of society as a whole.
• An individual‟s own values can result in acceptance or rejection of
society‟s ethical standards because even thoughtfully developed ethical
rules can conflict with individual values.
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56. ASPECTS OF ETHICS
• There are two aspects to ethics:
1. The first involves the ability to discern right from wrong, good from evil and
propriety from impropriety.
2. The second involves the commitment to do what is right, good and proper.
• Ethics entails action.
• An ALGEBRA course will teach you ALGEBRA.
• A HISTORY course will teach you HISTORY.
• A MANAGEMENT course will teach you principles of MANAGEMENT.
• But, Will an ETHICS course teach you to be ETHICAL? Think !
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57. ASPECTS OF ETHICS
• “Technology can have no legitimacy unless it inflicts no harm”-
Adm.H.G. Rickover, father of the US nuclear navy.
• What does Adm. Rickover mean by this?
• Should engineers avoid technology that has the potential for inflicting
harm on a society or its members?
• Engineers have an ethical and social responsibility to themselves,
their clients and society.
• Practically (although there is much debate about this), engineering
ethics is about balancing cost, schedule, and risk.
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58. Where does ethics come from?
a) Philosophers have several answers to this question:
b) God and religion
c) Human conscience and intuition
d) a rational moral cost-benefit analysis of actions and their effects
e) the example of good human beings
f) a desire for the best for people in each unique situation
g) political power
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59. ENGINEERING ETHICS
• ENGINEERING ETHICS is:
• the study of moral issues and decisions confronting individuals and
organizations involved in engineering and
• the study of related questions about moral ideals, character, policies
and relationships of people and organizations involved in
technological activity.
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60. TRAINING IN PREVENTIVE ETHICS
• Stimulating the moral imagination
• Recognizing ethical issues
• Developing analytical skills
• Eliciting a sense of responsibility
• Tolerating disagreement and ambiguity
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61. IMPEDIMENTS TO RESPONSIBILITY
• Self-interest.
• Fear.
• Self-deception.
• Ignorance.
• Egocentric tendencies.
• Microscopic vision.
• Groupthink.
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62. QUESTIONABLE ENGINEERING PRACTICES
• Trimming – “smoothing of irregularities to make data look extremely
accurate and precise”
• Cooking – “retaining only those results that fit the theory and
discarding others”.
• Forging – “inventing some or all of the research data…”
• Plagiarism – misappropriating intellectual property.
• Conflicts of interest (such as accepting gifts.) – actual – potential –
apparent
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63. CLEARLY WRONG ENGINEERING PRACTICES
• Lying
• Deliberate deception
• Withholding information
• Failing to adequately promote the dissemination of information
• Failure to seek out the truth
• Revealing confidential or proprietary information
• Allowing one‟s judgment to be corrupted.
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64. SENSES OF EXPRESSION OF ENGG. ETHICS
• Ethics is an activity and area of inquiry. It is the activity of
understanding moral values, resolving moral issues and the area of
study resulting from that activity.
• When we speak of ethical problems, issues and controversies, we
mean to distinguish them from non moral problems.
• Ethics is used to refer to the particular set of beliefs, attitudes and
habits that a person or group displays concerning moralities.
• Ethics and its grammatical variants can be used as synonyms for
„morally correct‟.
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65. What are morals and ethics?
• While they're closely related concepts, morals refer mainly to guiding
principles, and ethics refer to specific rules and actions, or behaviors.
• A moral precept is an idea or opinion that's driven by a desire to be
good.
• An ethical code is a set of rules that defines allowable actions or
correct behavior.
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67. • Uses of ethics
When students enter the professional world, they will be
expected to follow an explicit or implicit ethical code.
To responsibly confront moral issues raised by
technological activity
How to deal with ethical dilemmas in their professional
lives?
To achieve moral autonomy
* Confront – challenge
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69. What use is ethics?
• Ethics can provide a moral map
• Most moral issues get us pretty worked up - think of abortion and euthanasia
for starters. Because these are such emotional issues we often let our hearts
do the arguing while our brains just go with the flow.
• But there's another way of tackling these issues, and that's where
philosophers can come in - they offer us ethical rules and principles that
enable us to take a cooler view of moral problems.
• So ethics provides us with a moral map, a framework that we can use to find
our way through difficult issues.
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70. What use is ethics?
• Ethics can pinpoint a disagreement
• Using the framework of ethics, two people who are arguing a moral issue can
often find that what they disagree about is just one particular part of the
issue, and that they broadly agree on everything else.
• That can take a lot of heat out of the argument, and sometimes even hint at a
way for them to resolve their problem.
• But sometimes ethics doesn't provide people with the sort of help that they
really want.
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71. What use is ethics?
• Ethics doesn't give right answers
• Ethics doesn't always show the right answer to moral problems.
• Indeed more and more people think that for many ethical issues there isn't a
single right answer - just a set of principles that can be applied to particular
cases to give those involved some clear choices.
• Some philosophers go further and say that all ethics can do is eliminate
confusion and clarify the issues. After that it's up to each individual to come
to their own conclusions.
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72. What use is ethics?
• Ethics can give several answers
• Many people want there to be a single right answer to ethical questions. They
find moral ambiguity hard to live with because they genuinely want to do the
'right' thing, and even if they can't work out what that right thing is, they like
the idea that 'somewhere' there is one right answer.
• But often there isn't one right answer - there may be several right answers, or
just some least worst answers - and the individual must choose between
them.
• For others moral ambiguity is difficult because it forces them to take
responsibility for their own choices and actions, rather than falling back on
convenient rules and customs.
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74. Ethics and people
• Ethics as source of group strength
• One problem with ethics is the way it's often used as a weapon.
• If a group believes that a particular activity is "wrong" it can then use morality
as the justification for attacking those who practice that activity.
• When people do this, they often see those who they regard as immoral as in
some way less human or deserving of respect than themselves; sometimes
with tragic consequences.
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75. Ethics and people
• Good people as well as good actions
• Ethics is not only about the morality of particular courses of action, but it's
also about the goodness of individuals and what it means to live a good life.
• Virtue Ethics is particularly concerned with the moral character of human
beings.
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76. Ethics and people
• Searching for the source of right and wrong
• At times in the past some people thought that ethical problems could be solved in
one of two ways:
• by discovering what God wanted people to do
• by thinking rigorously about moral principles and problems
• If a person did this properly they would be led to the right conclusion.
• But now even philosophers are less sure that it's possible to devise a satisfactory and
complete theory of ethics - at least not one that leads to conclusions.
• Modern thinkers often teach that ethics leads people not to conclusions but to
'decisions'.
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77. Four ethical 'isms'
• When a person says "murder is bad" what are they doing?
• That's the sort of question that only a philosopher would ask, but it's
actually a very useful way of getting a clear idea of what's going on
when people talk about moral issues.
• The different 'isms' regard the person uttering the statement as doing
different things.
• We can show some of the different things I might be doing when I say
'murder is bad' by rewriting that statement to show what I really
mean:
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78. Four ethical 'isms'
• I might be making a statement about an ethical fact
• "It is wrong to murder"
• This is moral realism
• I might be making a statement about my own feelings
• "I disapprove of murder"
• This is subjectivism
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79. Four ethical 'isms'
• I might be expressing my feelings
• "Down with murder"
• This is emotivism
• I might be giving an instruction or a prohibition
• "Don't murder people"
• This is prescriptivism
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80. How do you practice ethics?
• Develop Ethical Standards.
• An integral first step is to formalize your expectations and make it
clear about which behaviors are and aren't acceptable. ...
1. Ensure Leaders Exhibit Proper Behavior. ...
2. Be Diligent About Enforcing Policies. ...
3. Praise Positive Behavior. ...
4. Promote Community Involvement.
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81. Any Questions?
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82. 1. What are human values?
Values decide the standard of behavior.
Some universally accepted values are freedom justice and
equality.
Other principles of values are love, care, honesty, integrity, self
respect.
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QUESTION BANK
83. 2. What are ethical values?
Trustworthiness,
respect,
responsibility,
fairness,
caring is ethical values .
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84. 3. Distinguish values from ethics and culture.
Values are mainly related to individuals and since they are related to
justice, they remain the some for every one.
E.g. truth, honesty, empathy, self respect.
Values do not change from individual to individual.
Ethics is common to a group of individuals; the group may be religious or
professional.
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85. Ethics is common to a group of individuals; the group may be religious or
professional.
Ethics is mostly based on some code or law and judgment of any action is
based individual to individual f conduct or law.
Ethics change from Culture commonly refers to conduct of a group.
E.g system of worship, marriage It may differ from society to society,
nation to nation or religion to religion.
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