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Markkula Center for Applied Ethics brings the traditions of ethical thinking to bear on real-world problems to make choices that respect and care for others.
The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University exists to help people see, understand, and work through ethical problems. As an introduction to thinking ethically, we have created a framework for ethical decision making.
Ethics Spotlight. The Ethics Center regularly takes advantage of the expertise of its multidisciplinary staff and scholars to look at a question from many different perspectives. The Ethics Spotlight captures those in-depth explorations of crucial ethical issues.
- ETHICAL NORMS
- PRACTICES
- This quote from a former intern, who is now a practicing pediatri-cian, summarizes one experience:
- COMMUNITY
- CONCLUSION
In University Ethics, Keenan argues that ethical norms—under-stood as values, virtues, and goods—should be practiced across all as-pects of a university and not simply be material for classes on philo-sophical or professional ethics. This claim raises hard questions about what approach to ethics can accomplish such a university-wide goal. Santa Cla...
The Ethics Center has many program areas, but the Campus Ethics Program is the designated means by which the Ethics Center engages the university campus. Over the years, there have been three primary ways the program has done this: public events; student fellowship and internship programs; and grants for faculty and student research in ap-plied eth...
I believe the most important trait that the ethics internship instilled in me was compassion. When I began the internship, I was a 20-year old who, despite wanting to become a pediatrician, didn’t know much about the health care field outside of my individual encounters with my own physician. Well, that year I experienced my first case of child phy...
One of Keenan’s most striking points is his insistence on the con-nection of ethics and community. The establishment of practices pro-vides the basis of an ethical culture that in turn provides the spirit that makes a community. The Ethics Center over the years has focused on ethics without strongly emphasizing a more specific intention to foster c...
The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics has made a positive im-pact on campus, as well as in its community, and around the world. However, there is always more work to do. In the world of ethics, every generation must learn anew what generations before have learned, and then more, as technology changes our world and makes it ever more complex. The C...
- Brian P. Green, Irina Raicu, Margaret R. McLean, Ann Skeet, Kirk O. Hanson, David DeCosse, Don Heide...
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The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics provides Hackworth Grants for faculty and students researching on applied ethics. Additionally, it offers Hackworth Fellowships for students keen on developing ethics programs for their peers.
The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics is a forum for research and discussion in all areas of applied ethics and resources for analyzing real-world ethical issues and tools to address them.
