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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.
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- Ethical Decision Making
- What Is Ethics?
- Six Ethical Lenses
- Using The Lenses
- Making Decisions
- A Framework For Ethical Decision Making
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...
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. [1] Focus areas. Bioethics.
- $3.7 million
- 1986
- Don Heider
History. The Ethics Center's second home on Franklin Street. Like many elements of its Jesuit tradition, Santa Clara University’s commitment to ethics goes all the way back to its founding in 1851. The study of ethics is part of the institution ’s commitment to educating the whole person.
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