framework for moral reasoning

ETHICAL

ETHICS

• Concerned with human conduct, more specifically the behaviours of individual in society
• its study whta is morally right or wrong, just or unjust

KANTIAN ETHICS

STRESSED TWO WIDELY ACCEPTED PRINCIPLES OF MORALITY

• Moral judgements must be founded on universal rules which are applicable to all person in the same way
• person must always be treated with respect

KANTIAN

What is Moral

Morals are the principles that guide individual conduct within society. And, while morals may change over time, they remain the standards of behavior that we use to judge right and wrong

Some examples of bad morals :

Cheating on a test, lying or misleading someone intentionally.

Having an affair if you are married, or with a married man or woman

Stealing/taking items that are not yours or leaving a store knowing the cashier gave you too much change.

Some examples of good morals:

Telling the truth regardless of the consequences to yourself

Helping others in need, even if it requires to go above and beyond normal expectations

Moral Principles

De Marco and Fox (1998) state 2 general conditions for establishing moral principles, conditions that you can apply:

1. Principles must be

explicit and simple

2.Principles must also be shared, common and universal

• No abstraction, just basic concrete statement

• Complicated principles affect your efficiency in deliberation and judgement of moral issue

The principles you choose cited by different societies and culture in various ways.

Common principles shared by the worlds major religion, cultural laws and knowledge of basic human nature

Ethics VS Morals: Is there a difference?

Ethics and morals relate to “right” and “wrong” conduct. While they are sometimes used interchangeably, they are different: ethics refer to rules provided by an external source, e.g., codes of conduct in workplaces or principles in religions. Morals refer to an individual’s own principles regarding right and wrong.

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AESTHETIC

VALUE

INSTRUMENTAL

VALUES

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DIFFERENT KINDS OF VALUE

PERFORMANCE

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MORAL

VALUES

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INTRINSIC

VALUES

JUSTICE

HONESTY

HONESTY

• Honesty is the condition or capacity of being truthful or trustworthy in dealing with others, including competitors.
• Honesty is dealing fairly and uprightly in speech and action.
• The moral value of honesty is based on the premise that the actor or agent will not lie, cheat, or steal.

RESPONSIBILITY

RESPONSIBILITY

• Accounting for your actions. In sport today, the word for responsibility is accountability,
• meaning both the non moral and moral values of situations.
• Athletes take pride in their accountability to:

a. the team,

b. the coach, and

c. the game.

Beneficence

BENEFECENCE

In the international sense, beneficence might be called “fair play” the act of giving to another above and beyond the call of game play, or the act of common civility

The condition of

(1) not doing harm,

(2) preventing harm,

(3) removing harm, and

(4) doing good.