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4)Making ethical decisions

Act and Reflect on the Outcome

Make a Decision and Test It

Evaluate Alternative Actions

Get the Facts

Recognize an Ethical Issue

3)Putting the Approaches Together

each approach gives us important information to determine what is ethical in a particular situation

2)Ethical standards

The Virtue Approach:ethical actions ought to be consistent with certain ideal virtues that provide for the full development of our humanity

The Common Good Approach:the notion that life in community is a good in itself and our actions should contribute to that life

The Fairness or Justice Approach:the idea that all equals should be treated equally

The Rights Approach:that best protects and respects the moral rights

The Utilitarian Approach:provides the most good or does the least harm

1)ethics:

Ethics is not science

Ethics is not following culturally accepted norms

ethics is not following the law

ethics is not religion

ethic is not feelings

behavior that tell us how people should act