Ethics

  • Professional Conduct and Respect: The actions in this case may represent a situation where leaders of one religion are professing their faith in a manner that can be perceived as fundamentally unfair or disrespectful to the adherents of another religion. - Ethics of Religious Promotion: There are identifiable morally right and morally wrong ways for religious professionals to promote their faith. For instance, respect and sensitivity to the beliefs of others are essential when promoting one's faith. - Conflict of Dictates: This case illustrates a direct conflict where the dictates of morality, such as respect and fairness, clash with the dictates of religion, which may include the evangelical mandate to convert others.


Descriptive Ethics:

  • the empirical study of people’s actual moral beliefs, values, and behaviors, focusing on what people think is right or wrong rather than prescribing how they ought to act

  • Normative (prescriptive) ethics: Studies how people ought to act, establishing moral principles and standards

  • When a sociologist or an anthropologist observes and records the moral thinking and practices of a person or group of persons that is descriptive moral reporting


Meta Ethics:

  • a branch of philosophy that studies the nature meaning, and foundations of morality itself.


Prescriptive Thinking

  • Makes moral judgements that descriptive thinking does not

  • Goes beyond nothing the behavior of others to judging the behavior of others

  • “The nurse was right when she decided not to cover up the medical technician’s action”

  • “The defense attorney should not have ignored his clients private admission of guilt”


Chapter 2

Professional ethics

  • concerns moral choices made in a professional context

  • the study of morality as it applies to a professional life

  • focuses on how moral choices are made in the workplace


Morality

  • what we do in our occupational life

  • what we do in our non occupational life


Ethics

  • the study of what we do at work

  • the study of what we do at leisure


Holism , Separatism



Moral Reasons and Explanations

Moral Reasoning - an explainer

  • moral reason is a thought or idea that contributes to an explanation

  • moral judgement

  • moral recommendation

  • morally right


Moral Explanation

  • something made from a moral reasoning

  • analogy

  • be universal

  • be thoughtful

  • express concern for others

  • express a specifically moral value


Dilemmas

  • a general conflict in thought or in reasons for action

  • can be found for acting one way or another,


Practical dilemma

  • classifies as difficult choices