The Ethical Lens Inventory
The Ethical Lens Inventory is designed to help you determine which of four ethical lenses – four primary ethical perspectives – help you determine what to do when faced with an ethical dilemma that doesn’t have a clear answer.
Your preferred ethical lens depends on your core values – the ideals that propel you to action. Each ethical lens emphasizes underlying core values in a slightly different way.
Two of the ethical lenses emphasize using rationality – critical thinking – to determine what behavior is ethical. * Rights and Responsibilities Lens: You (autonomy) use your reason (rationality) to determine the universal principles and rules by which you and others should live. * Relationship Lens: The members of the community (equality) use their collective reason (rationality) to design and implement processes to assure justice for all.
Two of the ethical lenses emphasize using sensibility – our intuition and emotions – to determine what behavior is ethical. * Results Lens: You (autonomy) use your feelings and intuition (sensibility) to determine the choices that you should make to contribute to your happiness, and by extension, the happiness of all. * Reputation Lens: The members of the community (equality) in conversation rely on their feelings and intuition (sensibility) to agree upon the character traits that are required for virtuous living.
Ethical Lens Inventory Results for JOEL FULLER * Your personal preferred lens is: * Rights and Responsibility Lens * You use your reasoning skills (rationality) to determine your duties as well as the universal rules that each person should follow (autonomy).
Your Core Values: Autonomy and Rationality * You strongly value autonomy over equality. You favor protecting the rights of individuals and are not swayed from believing that individuals should be able to do what they believe is right even if others protest that the results are not fair for everyone in the community.
Your preferred ethical lens depends on your core values – the ideals that propel you to action. Each ethical lens emphasizes underlying core values in a slightly different way.
Two of the ethical lenses emphasize using rationality – critical thinking – to determine what behavior is ethical. * Rights and Responsibilities Lens: You (autonomy) use your reason (rationality) to determine the universal principles and rules by which you and others should live. * Relationship Lens: The members of the community (equality) use their collective reason (rationality) to design and implement processes to assure justice for all.
Two of the ethical lenses emphasize using sensibility – our intuition and emotions – to determine what behavior is ethical. * Results Lens: You (autonomy) use your feelings and intuition (sensibility) to determine the choices that you should make to contribute to your happiness, and by extension, the happiness of all. * Reputation Lens: The members of the community (equality) in conversation rely on their feelings and intuition (sensibility) to agree upon the character traits that are required for virtuous living.
Ethical Lens Inventory Results for JOEL FULLER * Your personal preferred lens is: * Rights and Responsibility Lens * You use your reasoning skills (rationality) to determine your duties as well as the universal rules that each person should follow (autonomy).
Your Core Values: Autonomy and Rationality * You strongly value autonomy over equality. You favor protecting the rights of individuals and are not swayed from believing that individuals should be able to do what they believe is right even if others protest that the results are not fair for everyone in the community.