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Nov 22, 2009 · Knowledge refers to an understanding of the world around us that helps us to lead our life as a member of society. It helps to predict events and hence to mitigate the suffering or enhance the well-being of individuals and groups.
- N Nakkeeran
- 10.4103/0970-0218.69249
- 2010
- 2010/07
- Duty-Based Principles
- Utilitarian Principles
- Radical and Anti-Oppressive Principles
- Character and Relation-Based Approaches
- Progressive Social Work Ethics: A Situated Ethics of Social Justice
The main reference point for modern deontological (duty-based) theories is the German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804). Based on the authority of reason, his ultimate principle is ‘respect for persons’ formulated as a categorical imperative. Good action is one that is done from a sense of duty. This approach lays down universal laws and princi...
Utilitarian principles focus on promoting welfare and justice in society. There are many different concepts. The origins were developed by Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) and John Stuart Mill (1806–1873): ‘The basic idea of utilitarianism is that the right action is that which produces the greatest balance of good over evil—the principle of utility.’ (B...
Since the 1970s, radical and anti-oppressive principles have followed commitments to emancipation and social justice: This movement encouraged social workers to change their roles and take a mandate for oppressed clients and against unjust structures within society. Influences on values of social work came with the feminist and anti-racist movement...
The character and relation-based approaches to ethics stress ‘the importance of care, responsibility and relationships between particular people’ (Banks 2012, p. xxi). They seem to fit better with non-western cultures. They were derived partly because representatives of these cultures criticized individual approaches as ignoring important features ...
Banks calls the variety of approaches a ‘fragmentation of value’ (2012, p. 87). There cannot be a ranking of values, but a concept of professional wisdom to capture the practical wisdom required by practitioners in professional contexts: ‘It can be linked with the notion of the reflective and reflexive practitioner, requiring, among other things, t...
- Kristin Sonnenberg
- sonnenberg@evh-bochum.de
- 2021
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Jan 1, 2023 · 73 Accesses. Download reference work entry PDF. Synonyms. Integrity: character; Value: belief, principle. Definition. Ethical values are beliefs that provide guidelines for acting rightly in specific roles or for living morally in general. Personal integrity is consistently sound moral character. Introduction.
- james.cook@usafa.edu
Mar 26, 2019 · This article argues that a values orientation of acceptance, awareness and virtue, combined with an analytical framework provided by critical realism, can better equip social work practitioners and policy makers in identifying and understanding sites of epistemic injustice. KEYWORDS: Knowledge. epistemic injustice. critical realism. social work.
- Ian Dore
- 2019
May 6, 2021 · Understanding is the epistemic benefit we receive from idealizations, and understanding and truth can come apart. On this view, understanding (unlike knowledge) can therefore be “non-factive” (Elgin 2004, 2017; Potochnik 2017; cf. Sullivan & Khalifa 2019).
Socrates' ethical philosophy is centered on the idea that virtue is equivalent to knowledge. It discusses how knowledge, particularly of justice, virtue, and eternal ideas, is inherent in humans and can be brought to consciousness through the process of questioning, leading to self-mastery and ethical living.
Articles. What Is Truth? Richard Oxenberg on the need for an old paradigm, especially in ethics. In the Gospel of John, Jesus says to Pontius Pilate: “I was born and came into the world to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.” Pilate famously responds, “What is truth?”
