MODULE 4: ETHICAL PLANNING PRACTITIONER Flashcards
What two essential standards should ethical planning practitioners meet?
Competency and Integrity
What does integrity require?
Unconditional and steadfast commitment to a principled approach to meeting professional obligations to the public, clients, and employers, and to the profession.
What elements are part of a principled planning approach?
- Changing Social Context/ Values
- Client Impacted / Party Oriented
- Scale of the Problem
- Roles of the Government
- Role of the Professional (scrutinized)
- Defining the Public Interest
What are the 2 Legal and Moral Duties?
- Fiduciary Duty
2. Ethical Duty
Fiduciary Duty
Legal or ethical relationship of confidence or trust between two or more parties. It obliges a professional to value and protect the financial interests or assets of clients.
Ethical Duty
An obligation to engage in appropriate conduct. These duties are defined in codes of ethics or conduct, or practice.
What are the ethical theories?
- Feminist
- Utilitarianism
- Communitarian
- Kantian
- Environmental
- Rawlsian
Utilitarianism (definition and example)
Individuals or governments ought to do what will have the best consequences. Actions are judged by their consequences, not by their rightness or wrongness.
Weighing of costs and benefits.
Kantian (definition and example)
Basic rights - to be able to do as one wishes as long as it does not affect someone else’s ability to do the same thing.
Giving variances from the Zoning Bylaw because it does not appear to harm anyone else.
Rawlsian (definition and example)
Concern for disadvantages people is taken as a normative basis for planning.
Additional policies that benefit marginalized people.
Communitarian (definition and example)
Appealing to the sense of community.
Value of community through integration of communal amenities, social services, etc. in plans.
Environmental (definition and example)
Focus on ecological integrity.
Is the value of ecological elements inherent (value in and of themselves) or instrumental (value in terms of their worth to people)?
Feminist (definition and example)
Care and eradication of oppression, emphasis on collaboration, consensus, and trust.
What are some elements that will assist planners in ethical thinking?
- Conceptual Clarity
- Information
- Rationality
- Valid Moral Principles
- Impartiality
- Calmness
What are some elements that will assist planners in ethical thinking?
- Conceptual Clarity
- Information
- Rationality
- Valid Moral Principles
- Impartiality
- Calmness
Conceptual Clarity
Understanding of the actual meaning of the concepts they use to guide practice.
Concepts of sustainability and equity.
Information
Accurate data, being informed, hearing from impacted communities.
Impartiality
Avoid having one’s professional judgement influenced by bigotry, prejudice, preconceptions, or ignorance. Maintain objectivity.
Valid Moral Principles
Professionals must make correct judgements for the right reasons with an obligation to do what is right.
Rationality
The application of rules of logic and the recognition of connections among different ideas.
Calmness
Professional coolness of dispassion helps with objectivity and impartiality and the avoidance of bias and prejudice.
What are the forms of flawed reasoning? (FRAPPE FAB)
- Faulty Analogy
- Faulty Generalization
- Red Herring
- Proving a Negative
- Begging the Question
- Equivocation
- Argument Ad Populum
- Argument Ad Hominem
- Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Faulty Analogy
Making appropriate comparisons
Faulty Generalization
Treating all members of a class or category as if they were defined by criteria that apply to only some members.
Red Herring
A piece of information is introduced that has no bearing on the matter in order to confuse the audience.
Proving a Negative
Argument that cannot be proven to an absolute degree.
Begging the Question
Making unproven assertions.
Equivocation
To use terms in different senses in order to deceive another.
Argument Ad Populum
Attempt to appeal to people and their presumed common values and emotions.
Argument Ad Hominem
Attacking someone personally as a means of attacking that person`s point of view.
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Claiming casual connections where there are none. Correlation does not imply causation.
