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ETHC 445 Week 1 DQ 2 | Study of Ethical Philosophy
Discussion Topic 2 – Posts 2 Pages The study of Ethics and Philosophy is one which brings many different kinds of "thinkers" together. One person's philosophy on Ethics is another person's philosophy on Evil. We will be working this term on constructing personal ethical bases and understanding how Ethical Codes (both personal and professional) are created and followed. To start us thinking about the different areas of philosophy and ethics, and how we fit into the different mo..
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ETHC 445 Week 2 DQ 1 | When Siding with the Majority
Discussion Topic 1 – Posts 23 Pages As our opening page states, Mark Twain warned that “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” It is likely that your parents warned you “not to follow the crowd,” or your school counselors warned you about “peer pressure.”The United States utilizes a democratic republic form of government, which espouses the “majority rule” in many instances. For example, when passing laws, Congress and state Legi..
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ETHC 445 Week 3 DQ 2 | Living in Our State of Nature
Discussion Topic 2 – Posts 2 Pages Social Contract theorists say that morality consists of a set of rules governing how people should treat one another that rational beings will agree to accept for their mutual benefit, on the condition that others agree to follow these rules as well. Hobbes runs the logic like this in the form of a logical syllogism: 1) We are all self-interested, 2) Each of us needs to have a peaceful and cooperative social order to pursue our interest..
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ETHC 445 Week 4 DQ 1 | Deontological Ethics
Discussion Topic 1 – Posts 16 Pages Increasing food supplies are necessary to sustain growing populations around the world and their appetites for great food, quality products, and continuous availability. A great deal of expensive research is invested in developing technologies to deliver productive agriculture. Horticultural efforts to breed hybrid crops are seen as far back as history can observe, and there have been efforts to domesticate improved animals, as well. Gene splitting was ..
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ETHC 445 Week 5 DQ 1 | Utilitarian Ethics
Discussion Topic 1 – Posts 15 Pages There are three basic propositions in standard Utilitarianism (Please be sure to listen to Mill's audio lecture before joining this threaded discussion): 1. Actions are judged right and wrong solely on their consequences; that is, nothing else matters except the consequence, and right actions are simply those with the best consequences. 2. To assess consequences, the only thing that matters is the amount of happiness and unhappiness caused;..
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ETHC 445 Week 5 DQ 2 | Care Based Ethics
Discussion Topic 2 – Posts 17 Pages Utilitarian ethics clearly connect individuals with their larger community, but at the individual level, they are not completely unlike the care-based ethics presented in the Three Primary Schools model. Care-based ethics enjoys a kind of reciprocity between people in which decision-makers can imagine themselves as the object of the decision as well as the subject of the decision-making process. At the same time, and perceiving themselves in dual roles in..
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ETHC 445 Week 7 DQ 1 | Business Ethics & the Hovercraft Debacle
Discussion Topic 1 – Posts 17 Pages This week, we looked at two more ethical codes—one for the Project Management Institute, and one for Engineers. (Find links to these professional codes in the Week 7 Assignment tab along with the Week 7 readings.) You can see that both of them are much simpler than the Legal code we looked at last week, and even simpler than the Medical code of ethics. Appropriate professional behavior, practice, and discipline varies among professions and r..
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ETHC 445 Week 7 DQ 2 | Personal Ethics Statement
Discussion Topic 2 – Posts 17 Pages Please be sure to read the Week Seven Lecture in its entirety before posting to this discussion.This week we will work on creating your own statement of personal ethics.To get started, read summarizing review of our great and famous ethics and what they have taught us — found in our lecture this week. Then, let’s work on creating one for you. Your goal for the end of this thread is to have created a personal ethical philosophy and be able to t..
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