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Jumpstarting Your Reasoning about Ethical Issues and Dilemmas

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Jumpstarting Your Reasoning about Ethical Issues and Dilemmas

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    1. Jumpstarting Your Reasoning about Ethical Issues and Dilemmas

    2. The Reference Librarian and the Cop

    3. What Makes This an Ethical Dilemma? Tough Choices: Struggles over the Right Thing to do in public, professional and personal life Tests of Character: Struggles over one’s virtue under pressure over issues of right and wrong Right vs. Wrong: Moral temptation Right vs. Right: Ethical dilemmas

    4. Four Dilemma Paradigms Truth vs. Loyalty Individual vs. Community Short-term vs. Long-term Justice vs. Mercy

    5. What Would You Do and Why?

    6. Ends-Based Thinking

    7. Ends-Based Perspective Utilitarianism: Greatest good for greatest number Who will be hurt; who helped; and the intensity of help Teleological: About consequences; what works best Big Question: How can one ever know the consequences of our actions?

    8. Reason/Rule-Based Thinking

    9. Reason/Rule-Based Perspective Ethical Formalism: It’s the soundness of the reason, the rule, one derives that matters regardless of consequences Categorical Imperative: Testing the soundness of one’s reasoning Deontological: Duty to follow the reason/rule Big Question: What about our emotions and our relations with others?

    10. Formulating Humane and Consistent Rules of Conduct

    11. Categorical Imperative: Kant’s Test of the Notion of Right Action Always act so as to treat humanity, whether in yourself or in another, as an end and never merely as a means. Constitute a rule so that you could consistently will it to be a rule that everyone follows. A profound sense of rightness, of morality, follows upon meeting these tests.

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