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Ethic
* Define the rights and obligations of the respondent.
* Identify major ethical approaches and principles.
* Know the four models of ethical decision-making and how they help guide ethical decisions.
* Promote the welfare of birds and their environment.
* addresses questions of morality, such as what makes our actions right or wrong
  - right and wrong using reason rather than faith or tradition
  - topics in the philosophy of value
* also motivate many former meat-eaters to become vegetarians.
* are a basic ideal of what is morally right and wrong for all individuals of a society
  - measure of character
  - philosophical reflection of moral beliefs and practices
  - series of personal decisions
  - set of rules of conduct or moral codes
* are about trust and a sense of fair play
  - values, ideals and aspirations
  - all about relationships
* are an important part of public relations practice
  - inescapable component of best-practice medical research
  - beliefs that separate right from wrong or accepted standards of good and bad behavior
* are central in decision-making
  - to magick
  - complete, profound and alive only when addressed to all living beings
  - critical in any field of engineering
  - crucial in accounting
  - different from countires, industries and profession
  - essential for any community to function peacefully and therefore exist
  - essentially questions of right and wrong
  - ethics
  - how one conducts oneself, and interprets rules, in relation to morals
  - individualistic and situational
  - just a branch of aesthetics
* are moral principles adopted by an individual or group to provide rules for right conduct
  - rules or principles of behavior for deciding what is right and what is wrong
  - standards that help guide behaviour, actions, and choices
  - necessary for a human system to work
  - principles or standards that guide professionals to do the moral or right thing
  - reason and the contemplation of optimum survival
* are rules of conduct for a society
  - optimal behavior
  - standards of behavior that support an individual s and a society s values
* are the foundation of the profession
  - professional standards of conduct that are displayed in sports
  - voluntary, something one participates in if one is of good character
* become involved when value judgments are made in setting the limits.
* begins with the rejection of non-universalizable principles.
* belongs to the category of values typically formed and shaped during adolescence.
* choice between good and bad, between right and wrong.
* claims to address the subject of values in a practical manner.
* come into existence when individuals join together in a tribal unit
  - play in adult relationships
* considers precedents set in law and other issues that can alter a person's perceptions.
* constitute one of the pillars of our society.
* context in which there are important non-scientistic versions of naturalism.
* deal with personal moral principles and values.
* deals with moral judgments involving moral decisions
  - that which is good and that which is the right thing to do
  - the proper relations with and responsibilities toward other people
* define a certain parameter where human beings can interact
  - the social conditions necessary for human beings to thrive
* denotes man's conduct, which is formed accordingly within time.
* depends on a person s moral obligations as well as the structure of a business.
* distinctive type of knowledge.
* drive the laws of our society.
* embodies the transcendent virtues of patience, trust, love, and relationship.
* entails the development of practical wisdom about doing what is morally good or right.
* equate to morals.
* field of philosophy that deals with right and wrong.
* flows from consciousness.
* focus in all decision situations.
* function of time, location and knowledge.
* fundamental aspect of human society.
* general pattern of a way of life.
* gives necessary truths that hold for all rational beings.
* guide choices and raise consciousness.
* has a connection to motivation and to goals in human behavior
  - role in sustainable leadership, as it does to corporate responsibility
  - both a philosophical and a practical side
  - no analytic truths about the nature of the good
  - to do with decisions that involve making a distinction between right and wrong
* have no necessary connection with religion.
* involve judgement and making the right decisions.
* involves choices in regard to moral precepts
  - morality, the nature of right as determined by a group or an individual
  - the study of moral imagination, moral judgment, and moral action
* is about how people treat people.
* is about what is valuable and how to achieve it
  - ought to be
  - achieved through change, and successful change is achieved through ethics
  - all about behavior
  - also different from etiquette
  - always the expression of a world-conception
* is an essential component of obstetrics and gynecology
  - examined and carefully considered structure that includes both practice and theory
  - important aspect of business generally and strategy, specifically
  - integral part of mainstream management
  - often misunderstood term
  - central to a good life
  - code of conduct
* is concerned with discovering a code of values by which one can guide ones actions
  - free objects which are governed by moral laws
  - human character and conduct
  - justice, and fairness
  - ethics in practice, and practice is daily practice
  - important in all areas of society
  - independent of religion
  - just as demonstrative a science as the natural sciences
* is more than being religious, following a code of conduct, or having proper etiquette
  - the avoidance of criminal behavior
  - only one of the concerns that can stir up feelings against science
* is our nature, our inner necessity
  - way of being human
* is part of doing and saying the right thing in society
  - other fields of study in many ways
  - the study of religion
  - perhaps the most difficult area of philosophy
  - primarily concerned with prescriptive statements
  - reflection upon moral choices and morally relevant human behavior
* is related only to human beings
  - to others
  - rewritten to facilitate capitalism
  - simply a matter of obeying laws and regulations
  - something which everybody is responsible for
  - split off from any objective moral order
  - strictly a way of addressing things from a moral perspective
  - systems
* is the art of determining what is right or good
  - right living
  - common denominator of science and religion
  - delineation of broad principles which govern human life
  - depth, form, and substance of doing business
  - foundation for the life of the Buddhist layman and for the way leading to liberation
* is the foundation of integrity and credibility
  - policing
  - fragrance of wisdom
  - investigation into the nature of moral judgement and moral reasoning
  - key to fiscal and social success in business
  - knowledge about which response to choose and which action to do in a given situation
  - lifeblood of a free society and it can tolerate only so much adulteration
  - philosophical understanding of good and bad, right and wrong
  - practice of making a principled choice between right and wrong
  - principles of right or good conduct
  - rules and standards governing the conduct of an induviual with others
  - science and art of moral decisions
* is the science of explaining why some things are right and others are wrong
  - morals in human conduct
  - values in human conduct
  - sense of solidarity with other human beings
* is the soul illustrated in human life
  - of Theosophy
* is the study of conduct, moral values, duties, actions, and ends
  - cultural and personal behavior
  - good and bad practice in a profession or field of study
  - human actions
  - proper behavior, while morality prescribes that behavior
  - right and wrong in human action
* is the study of the basis of morality
  - moral principles that guide that conduct
  - values and worth
  - very basis of spiritual life
  - value driven, action oriented and determined by the situation
* leads to law and that leads to freedom.
* lifelong process of being and behaving.
* matter of common sense and experience
  - doing one s duty, which derives from rules of reason
  - instinctive, naturally human reactions
* means the strength which holds the consciousness bound to truth.
* more abstract study of right and wrong.
* offers definitions of ethics, metaethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics.
* often lags behind science.
* only exists in action and in relationships.
* part of all major religions
  - politics, which is the most authoritative and architectonic science
* participatory activity.
* perfectly valid way of thinking about things.
* permeate every aspect of our lives.
* personal code of behavior.
* pertains to benevolence, non-malevolence, autonomy, and justice
  - one's sense of duty
* play a role in the development of information literacy.
* plays a distinctive role with corporations
  - major role in understanding the controversy that surrou nds genetic testing
  - role in the everyday functioning of a business, company, or corporation
* policy listed in the employee handbook.
* precedes the thinking of the ego and the being.
* predominate over conformity and compliance, in religion as elsewhere.
* presupposes human freedom and human responsibility.
* publishes both theory and the application of theory to contemporary moral issues.
* reflects on morality.
* relates to effects.
* relative term.
* set of values that consistently guides our behaviors.
* sometimes cross the letter of the law, and sometimes accidents do happen.
* starts with individual scientists.
* subdiscipline of philosophy that studies right and wrong.
* system to assist in the analysis of such challenges.
* systematic way of looking at morality.
* theme that is strong and constant in Judaism.
* very broad concept that reaches into motivation, intent
  - general term, which just means a set of values
* word used lightly and claimed by each of the factions to be on their side.
+ Ethics, What is ethics used for?
  * Ethics is part of the study of religion. Some important ideas about what is good or bad have come from religion. See Ten Commandments.
+ Politics, Governments
  * Ethics is a more abstract study of right and wrong. Ethics is usually more concerned with principle than law or politics or diplomacy, so many people think ethics is not practical. But without some agreement on ethics, there is probably no way to even have a debate, laws or an election. There is always some agreement on ethics and personal conduct in a political system.