Ethics
Ethical Issues
Criteria:
§At least 2 different opinions about the issue leading to at least 2 potentially different courses of action
§Opinion or judgments about the issue are debated in terms of good and bad, right and wrong, and worthy and unworthy human behaviour
It usually involves:
§Rights
§Principles
§Welfare of other humans/ species/ environment
§At least 2 different opinions about the issue leading to at least 2 potentially different courses of action
§Opinion or judgments about the issue are debated in terms of good and bad, right and wrong, and worthy and unworthy human behaviour
It usually involves:
§Rights
§Principles
§Welfare of other humans/ species/ environment
What is involved in Ethical Thinking?
§1. Clearly define what the issue is and how it might be an ethical
issue.
§2. examine key values driving positions involved in the ethical issue and how these positions are supported by people’s general beliefs and assumptions
§2. examine key values driving positions involved in the ethical issue and how these positions are supported by people’s general beliefs and assumptions
References
Elliot,
R. & Tuohy,
M. 2006. Ethics and Morality in a multicultural society: VCE Religion and
Society Unit 2. Victoria: Thomson Social Science Press