ethics

Ethics refers to a set of norms and morals that govern human action and inform what we ought or should do. There are three forms of ethics, namely, virtue ethics, duty based ethics and consequentialist ethics.

Generally stated, a discussion of ethics assumes a moral standard, which is used to determine the morality of one’s actions. For example, actions that conform to the standard are moral actions. Actions that do not conform to the standard are immoral actions.

The basis of ethics is to establish a system of motivations and deterrents, which factor heavily in controlling and directing human desire. Individuals should desire to do moral actions and should be deterred from doing immoral actions. Thus, ethics prescribes proper moral action and dissuades individuals from desiring to act immorally. 

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Original Technorati articles tagged “ethics”

• in Business
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  by alexh14 / on Feb 26, 2012
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  Leaders from any background should lead by ethical example and enforce ethical standards, because it is the right thing to do.
  by SaharAndrade / on Nov 17, 2011

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• What Americans think is right and wrong

  
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  A Gallup poll surveyed what Americans find morally acceptable and unacceptable.  From The Atlantic: What do we learn from this? I’ll start:  Pornography comes out as worse than abortion, sex outside of marriage, and the death penalty.  Nearly two out of three Americans consider pornography to be immoral?  ...
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• Whistleblower Bookmarks

  
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• ETHOS ~ examining the mechanics of our current dystopia

  
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  [Brought to my attention by Arun Paul] Some rights reserved © Antares/Magick RiverYou may borrow and/or modify content for your own blog but please credit and backlink, thanks.
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• Today’s Gag

  
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• Why We Lie

  
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  Weekend May 25, 2012 A Duke Professor constructs an  interesting experiment . The idea is to learn when people we lie, what prompts or encourages such behavior.  His conclusion is that a great deal of people  lie just a little, but in total that leads to significant costs.  Take a read, pretty interesting. The ...
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• Ethics Moments in Government: Cases and Controversies (ASPA Series in Public Administration and Public Policy) Reviews

  
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  Ethics Moments in Government: Cases and Controversies (ASPA Series in Public Administration and Public Policy) Ethical concerns are among the most common problems public administrators face, yet the issues are often complex, and the correct choices are not always clear. Living up to the public trust is much ...
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• Pleasant walk in the park at Rothampsted

  
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• We have a duty to put our faith in science, not trample on it

  
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  Francis Bacons spirit will be sorely lacking in Harpenden today. Take the Flour Back is organising a day of "mass protest " around one small field where researchers from government-funded Rothamsted Research are growing a strain of wheat that resists being eaten by aphids. So far, so good – it could hugely ...
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• Do Your Customers Trust You?

  
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  The Importance Of Building Consumer Trust is of maximum concern should you want to build a sustainable business. Honesty and integrity are significant attributes in life, and just as important if not more so in business. Whether your interests are doing business online or a physical store on the corner of the ...
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• Americans Elect Spokesperson Acknowledges Big Lie: Delegate Count inflated by at least 400%

  
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  In the all-online corporate privatized presidential nomination effort called Americans Elect , there are different levels of participation: 1. Facebook Fan: someone who “likes” Americans Elect on Facebook. As of this morning, 466,625 people have “liked” Americans Elect on Facebook . 2. Account holder: ...
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• Transparency International Framework for Assurance of Corporate Anti-bribery Programmes

  
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  When: 9.00 to 10:30, 21st June 2012 Where: Chartered Accountants Hall, Moorgate Place, London EC2R 6EA, UK New ground for confidence: assuring corporate anti-bribery programmes Transparency International and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales are pleased to invite you to the launch on 21st ...
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• 8 practical recommendations against corruption

  
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  In view of the upcoming parliamentary elections, Transparency International – Greece (TI-G) has put forward eight practical recommendations against corruption and calls the contending political parties to commit themselves on their implementation: Reform the Elections Committee that monitors campaign ...
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• Is sin more fun than virtue? | Poll

  
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  A vicar is in trouble after joking on Facebook that sin is such fun, swearing and complaining about having to go to church. But is he right that sin is more pleasurable or are the rewards of virtue still higher?
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• Riding A Harley In Stilettos

  
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  Two images struck me during a recent quick trip to Salt Lake City to visit my daughter and grandsons. One image is that of a young woman in a tight black skirt, wearing stilettos and a coon skin cap astride a big black Harley-Davidson motorcycle riding alone down a busy boulevard past the 130-year-old   Liberty ...
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• The Ethics of Human Rights (60): Absolute Human Rights and Threshold Deontology

  
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  ( source ) There’s this difficult contradiction between two moral intuitions about human rights. On the one hand, we tend to feel very strongly about the extreme importance of a particular subset of human rights. Especially the right to life, the right not to be tortured and the right not to be enslaved are among ...
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• Poverty and Difference Through the Eyes of a 10-Year-Old

  
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  Guest Blogger: "I believe that my motivation for activism to fight the structures of injustice is grounded in my personal experience of subjugation as well as bearing witness to the suffering of others. Let me now tell you about my introduction to Jim Crow." read more
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• Should Romney get credit for job creation through Bain, if "any job creation was accidental"?

  
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  A NYT op-ed says no, but Jaltcoh implies that the answer is yes : As [Thomas] Sowell points out [in "A Conflict of Visions" ], we have a word for things in the "unintentional" + " harmful " quadrant: "negligence." We generally blame people for acting negligently. So, why shouldnt we praise people for doing ...
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• Sloth = Helpfulness

  
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  One of the many virtues of sloth... read more
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• Sloth = Helpfulness

  
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