Ethics of Administration

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Ethics of Administration

• Chapter 1

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Imposing your values?

• Values are more than personal preferences
• Human beings are moral agents
• Duty to make choices in responsible way

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Moral Claims

• Not value judgments that belong to a personal or
  group preference

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Ethical Reasoning

• Possible and important
• Ethical decisions are not just a matter of
  preference
• Ethical decisions can be based on reasons that
  others can understand
• Ethical decisions are often made under complex
  and ambiguous circumstances

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Moral Principles

• Moral reasoning has a moral point
• Moral dilemma What is the right thing to do?
• Right, ought, just, fair
• Duties or obligations

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Facts

• Relevant to deciding an ethical issue
• Not sufficient can not tell what is right or
  fair by themselves

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Moral Conflict

• How do you decide between conflicting ethical
  principles
• Identify the Principles
• Fairness and Parents Rights
• Hierarchy
• Why should the principle be considered?
• What purpose does it serve?

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Learn Moral Reasoning

• Identify concepts
• Use intuitive moral reactions about what is right
  or wrong
• Describe principles that underlie your feelings
• Test gut feelings by supporting with moral
  principles

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Ethics of Administration

• Chapter 2

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Consequential

• Principle of Maximum Benefit
• Judges what is right or wrong by known
  consequences
• Whatever gains the greatest good for the most
  number of people
• Ex. utilitarianism

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Non-consequential

• Principle of equal respect
• People are moral agents that have equal worth
• Follow the Golden Rule
• Respect individual freedom of choice even if we
  dont agree

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Need both Frameworks

• Consequential Problems
• Requires information you dont always know
• Utilitarianism can produce morally abhorrent
  consequences
• Non-Consequential Problems
• How can one decide a moral law?
• How do we express the moral principal that
  underlies it?

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John Stuart MillThe Marketplace of Ideas

• Ideas are tested to discover truth.
• Truth is best sought by process of criticism and
  debate. Debate helps us remember why we hold
  ideas.

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CON---------------NONCON

• Promotes personal growth through debate
• Individuals have the responsibiblity to make
  decisions for themselves
• Duty to make wise choices
• Right to evaluate and choose

• Informing the public is a service
• How can voters make a decision without
  information
• Contributes to welfare of society
• Contributes to personal happiness

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Intellectual Liberty

• Is the teacher free to express her opinions in
  the newspaper or does the state of negotiations
  of the district have precedence?

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Freedom of Expression

• Inquiry to discover the truth
• Ideas are tested in debate to refine ideas
• Debate promotes personal growth

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Questions

• Does free press include the right to be wrong?
• Rights are general, not absolute. Conflict can
  occur between rights and interests of different
  parties.
• How is balance found?
• (Both Con and Noncon theories are needed, neither
  is sufficient to make a decision alone.)

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Realization of Free Moral Agency

• Free moral agents of equal worth
• Have the ability to make moral decisions
• Have responsibility to make decisions
• Duty to make choices wisely

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Resolve the Conflict

• Presuppose the principle of equal respect of
  persons.
• Why? People are of equal intrinsic worth.
• Con Be concerned with the benefit of people so
  that they will be as well off as possible.
  Everyones happiness is of equal value.
• Noncon Value the welfare of others equally to my
  own. Respect people even if it results in less
  happiness.