Week 1

Question 1

ETHICAL DECISION MAKING

Answer 1

• Recognizing alternatives
• Recognizing stakeholders
• Recognizing consequences

Question 2

ETHICAL DILEMMAS

Answer 2

*Clashes of legitimate rights or values or
different principles and notions of good.
*Core to ethical decision-making is the
ability to balance clashing values.
*No clash of values –> No ethical problem.

Question 3

WHAT ETHICAL BEHAVIOUR IS NOT

Answer 3

*Feelings and emotions
*Religious beliefs
*Following the law
*Following social conventions
*Scientific knowledge

Question 4

Aristotle

Answer 4

Do what brings you closer to virtue

Question 5

Kant

Answer 5

Do what respects human fundamental dignity and self-determination

Question 6

Jeremy Bentham

Answer 6

Do what provides the most good and the least harm

Question 7

John Rawls

Answer 7

Do what is necessary to “share one another’s fate”

Question 8

Sandel

Answer 8

Act considering the obligations to your community

Question 9

Ethics

Answer 9

The word ethics is derived from the Greek word ἦθος (êthos) meaning
- character, custom or habit.

Today ethics can mean:
- a set of moral principles : a theory or system of moral values
- the discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation