What is values clarification? Howard Kirschenbaum (Co-Director of Sagamore Institute and Executive Director of the National Coalition for Democracy in Education‚ Sarasota Springs New‚ York) says: I think the basic thing that values clarification does — which is to identify an important issue that has value dimensions and to provide an effective way for young people to identify their own beliefs and feelings on this issue and to share these and to interact with others — is something that is a part
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Code of Ethics and Security Case Study December 20‚ 2010 Abstract As we examine the case of “Cop Gets 15 Years in Torture Case”‚ we evaluate from four different perspectives the different ethical theories; ethical relativism‚ ethical egoism‚ deontological ethics and ontological ethics to determine how the different perspectives support or condemn the conduct in this case study. The case involves the brutal sodomizing of a black male Haitian immigrant‚ Abner Louima by two white New York police
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insufficient. Ethical Relativism In the past for most people and even for many people today‚ an objective moral standard that is binding on all people for all times exists. While there might be disagreement on what the standard was‚ most acknowledged that there was a “right” choice. But in the last half-century‚ there has been considerable erosion in the idea that a standard exists or is even needed. For many‚ decisions about what is right and wrong are complete personal and completely subjective: what is right
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References: - http://www.character-ethics.org/articles/absolutesandrelativisim.htm http://www.allaboutphilosophy.org/ethical-relativism-faq.htm http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090910042540AAAOwSO http://atheism.about.com/od/ethicalsystems/a/Deontological.htm http://www.allaboutphilosophy.org/ethical-relativism-faq.htm http://www.csrnyc.com/philosophicalbaseofcsr/fourtypesofethics.html http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/decision/ethicalrelativism.html http://plato
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Lewis’s conclusions and observations hold true in our world today. In the first section‚ Lewis shows the conclusion students of The Green Book will make due to the book’s debunking of value statements‚ causing them to infer that “all values are subjective and trivial”
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ETHICS: DISCOVERING RIGHT AND WRONG Louis Pojman‚ James Fieser Book Outline to Seventh Edition Prepared by James Fieser with additions by Sandra Dreisbach 1. WHAT IS ETHICS 1) Introduction i) Kitty Genovese example 2) Ethics and its subdivisions i) Philosophy a) Clarify concepts‚ analyze and test propositions and beliefs b) Major task is to analyze and construct arguments ii) Ethics vs. morality a) Both terms derive their meaning
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inhere in an object: size‚ shape‚ weight and so on. Secondary Qualities: According to Locke‚ qualities that we impose on an object: colour‚ smell‚ texture and so on. Solipsism: An extreme form of subjective idealism‚ contending that only I exist and that everything else is a product of my subjective consciousness. Skepticism: In epistemology‚ the view that varies between doubting all assumptions until proved and claiming that no knowledge is possible. Analytic Judgment: Sumum Bonum:
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Unit 1-Chapter 1-Three Social Sciences Three Social Sciences-know the definitions and the types of questions asked Social Science Inquiry Model –know all the steps and how to apply it Research Methods Analyzing Data Drawing Conclusions Subjective conclusions: Type of conclusions shaped by a person’s cultural and personal perspective‚ feelings ‚ and briefs. Objective conclusions: Type of conclusions based on facts and data and uninfluenced by personal perspectives‚ prejudices‚ or emotions
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-determinism: physical‚ psychical‚ indeterminism‚ Nondeterminism (hard and soft) -Karl Popper vs. Thomas Kuhn‚ Paul Feyerabend Chapter 2-Greek Psychology (Philosophy) -animism‚ anthropomorphism‚ transmigration of the soul‚ relativism -Socrates against relativism‚ knowledge as virtue Plato -the analogy of the divided line (sensory info‚ ignorance‚ opinion)‚ true forms‚ Academy‚ reminiscence theory of knowledge -tripartite mind (appetitive‚ affective‚ rational) Aristotle -student
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Social location/pg.3- the group memberships that people have because of their location in history and society. The term of social location as it corresponds to the video shows the memberships that just about all young Mexican migrant workers share in order to assist the parents in providing for their families. You can also see throughout the whole time in the video their how their roles play out. Honestly you would not even be able to call them farmers but peasants because they work in the much
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