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The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics is a leading center for ethics research, education, and consultation. It offers resources, events, and services on topics such as AI, disruptive technologies, ESG, and character education.
- Ethical Decision Making
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- Business Ethics
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- Ethical Decision Making
- What Is Ethics?
- Six Ethical Lenses
- Using The Lenses
- Making Decisions
- A Framework For Ethical Decision Making
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Ethics refers to standards and practices that tell us how human beings ought to act in the many situations in which they find themselves—as friends, parents, children, citizens, businesspeople, professionals, and so on. Ethics is also concerned with our character. It requires knowledge, skills, and habits. It is helpful to identify what ethics is N...
If our ethical decision-making is not solely based on feelings, religion, law, accepted social practice, or science, then on what basis can we decide between right and wrong, good and bad? Many philosophers, ethicists, and theologians have helped us answer this critical question. They have suggested a variety of different lenses that help us percei...
Each of the lenses introduced above helps us determine what standards of behavior and character traits can be considered right and good. There are still problems to be solved, however. The first problem is that we may not agree on the content of some of these specific lenses. For example, we may not all agree on the same set of human and civil righ...
Making good ethical decisions requires a trained sensitivity to ethical issues and a practiced method for exploring the ethical aspects of a decision and weighing the considerations that should impact our choice of a course of action. Having a method for ethical decision-making is essential. When practiced regularly, the method becomes so familiar ...
Identify the Ethical Issues 1. Could this decision or situation be damaging to someone or to some group, or unevenly beneficial to people? Does this decision involve a choice between a good and bad alternative, or perhaps between two “goods” or between two “bads”? 2. Is this issue about more than solely what is legal or what is most efficient? If s...
Learn how to think ethically and apply six ethical lenses to complex situations. Explore the concepts of rights, justice, utilitarianism, common good, virtue, and care ethics with examples and resources.
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics is a department at Jesuit Santa Clara University. It was created by Manuel Velasquez, a faculty member in the School of Business, and funded by early Apple Inc. investor Mike Markkula and his wife, Linda Markkula. The Center offers programs in ten major fields of ethics.
- $3.7 million
- 1986
- Don Heider
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The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics is the world's leading proponent for practical ethics in personal and professional life. In dialogue with Silicon Valley and global society, the Center conducts research and inquiry into important ethical questions, and provides useful resources to promote ethics in everyday life and equip individuals and institutions to act with integrity.
