Personal Code Of Ethics
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Ethics are the underlying basic principles upon which choices are made throughout life. These are bedrock reference points for right or wrong. Ethical principles are developed early in life, generally by the time a child is 4 or 5 years old. After that point, the person learns how to apply these principles with increasing ability and success. Ethics are both a personal and a public display of your principles and beliefs. It is because of ethical beliefs that humans may act differently in different situations. These actions based on ethical principles are called morals.
Ethics can support clearly defined right and wrong, as in duty-driven or deontological ethics. In this case, what is right and wrong is determined …show more content…
What do you believe, and why do you believe it? Can you justify your answers to yourself, your family, your employer, and your community? Many people use a code of ethics to help with difficult issues. Have you ever tried writing your own code of ethics to guide your moral actions?
Ethics is a large field of study, and it is not the intention of this course to cover the vast and often abstract philosophical area in depth. The intent of this section is to provide you with a foundational understanding of the major ethical positions that underlie the decision-making process. In the field of ethics, there are several major classifications of ethics: deontological or duty-based, teleological or ends-driven, rights-based, human nature, relativism, and entitlement.
Most people have a predominant ethical system but at times may use an alternate system for a specific situation. There is some ebb and flow between many of these systems as people live their personal and professional lives. A duty-driven person, however, will never become relativistic, or vice versa. The real key to understanding ethics is to understand what you believe, why you believe it, and how you act out those beliefs in your …show more content…
Human nature
a. People who believe in human nature ethics are those who see the passions and flaws of humans as a real issue. Human nature ethics tend to deal with the extremes of human behavior, both good and bad, and practitioners find little room for middle ground.
b. Many of the people who follow human rights ethical theories include the following:
1) Egoists, who think and act only for themselves
2) Hedonists, who believe that pleasure is the chief goal of life
3) Virtue, system in which people believe in moral excellence, rightness, and responsibility
5. Relativistic
a. People who base their ethical systems entirely on their feelings in a particular situation are considered relativistic. This is a personalized system with no absolute rights and wrongs. A person may include his or her experience, social status, economic status, cultural background, nationality, ethnicity, or any other factor one desires to use to formulate a moral action. Moral actions are subjective rather than objective.
b. A person can be more just to one person because of a particular set of circumstances and less just to another based on arbitrary personal
Ethics are the underlying basic principles upon which choices are made throughout life. These are bedrock reference points for right or wrong. Ethical principles are developed early in life, generally by the time a child is 4 or 5 years old. After that point, the person learns how to apply these principles with increasing ability and success. Ethics are both a personal and a public display of your principles and beliefs. It is because of ethical beliefs that humans may act differently in different situations. These actions based on ethical principles are called morals.
Ethics can support clearly defined right and wrong, as in duty-driven or deontological ethics. In this case, what is right and wrong is determined …show more content…
What do you believe, and why do you believe it? Can you justify your answers to yourself, your family, your employer, and your community? Many people use a code of ethics to help with difficult issues. Have you ever tried writing your own code of ethics to guide your moral actions?
Ethics is a large field of study, and it is not the intention of this course to cover the vast and often abstract philosophical area in depth. The intent of this section is to provide you with a foundational understanding of the major ethical positions that underlie the decision-making process. In the field of ethics, there are several major classifications of ethics: deontological or duty-based, teleological or ends-driven, rights-based, human nature, relativism, and entitlement.
Most people have a predominant ethical system but at times may use an alternate system for a specific situation. There is some ebb and flow between many of these systems as people live their personal and professional lives. A duty-driven person, however, will never become relativistic, or vice versa. The real key to understanding ethics is to understand what you believe, why you believe it, and how you act out those beliefs in your …show more content…
Human nature
a. People who believe in human nature ethics are those who see the passions and flaws of humans as a real issue. Human nature ethics tend to deal with the extremes of human behavior, both good and bad, and practitioners find little room for middle ground.
b. Many of the people who follow human rights ethical theories include the following:
1) Egoists, who think and act only for themselves
2) Hedonists, who believe that pleasure is the chief goal of life
3) Virtue, system in which people believe in moral excellence, rightness, and responsibility
5. Relativistic
a. People who base their ethical systems entirely on their feelings in a particular situation are considered relativistic. This is a personalized system with no absolute rights and wrongs. A person may include his or her experience, social status, economic status, cultural background, nationality, ethnicity, or any other factor one desires to use to formulate a moral action. Moral actions are subjective rather than objective.
b. A person can be more just to one person because of a particular set of circumstances and less just to another based on arbitrary personal