Practicing Good Ethics....
Sharon Kay Stoll, Ph.D.
Director, Center for ETHICS*
University of Idaho
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Ethics
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Doing Business....
What is valuable or worthwhile
about doing business..whatever
that business might be?
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Five Steps to Follow...
 1.
 2.
 3.
 4.
 5.
Becoming sensitive to moral issues
Respecting and Loving Yourself
Looking for Win-win solutions
Respecting and Loving Your Craft
Searching for Moral Excellence. R.
Scott Kretchmar, Practical Philosophy, p. 238.
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Becoming Sensitive..
 Moral
Callouses - how they develop
frequent appeals to “everybody else is
doing it.”
 inability to distinguish between what is
acceptable and what is not (no rules
against it, behavior must be okay).
 difficulty in telling morally sound
concepts from trickery.
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Becoming sensitive....
 if
not caught, nothing wrong
happened...whatever works is right.
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An example - Wall Street
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Removing Callouses
 Making
Promises
 Looking Out for Harm
 Looking Out for Selfishness
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Examining Issues
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Removing moral callouses
 Making
promises
to play hard
 to play by the
rules
 all of the rules
 all of the time
 what else?
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Making promises ..
To work only when we feel
like it?
 To honor the letter and spirit
of the contract.
 To keep the interests of the
client and students foremost
 Anything else?
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Step 2: Respecting and
Loving Yourself...
 Cooling
Out
 Loving Yourself Psychologically
 Loving Yourself Philosophically
 Humans at Their Best
Seeking internal goods
 Developing a cohort life story
 Promoting good and avoiding harm
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Step 3: Looking for Win-Win
Solutions
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Step 4: Respecting the craft
 Preserving
Contests
rules are the same for all
 preserve an appropriate level of difficulty
 assure commitment to competition
 make sure all competitors are of the
“same testing families”.
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Step 5: Looking for Moral
Excellence
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Ethics
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Summary - Doing Good Ethics
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Five Steps to Follow...
 1.
 2.
 3.
 4.
 5.
Becoming sensitive to moral issues
Respecting and Loving Yourself
Looking for Win-win solutions
Respecting and Loving Your Craft
Searching for Moral Excellence. R.
Scott Krecthmar, Practical Philosophy, p. 238.
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