ETHICS ASSIGNMENT
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What is my best life?
A brief introduction to an assignment for the ethics class portfolio.
This assignment helps students demonstrate ethical reasoning while examining where they are in their life and where they are going and why.
In this assignment, I demonstrate my knowledge and skill in Ethical Reasoning.
Here are the five aspects of ethical reasoning that you demonstrate.
(1) Ethical awareness of core beliefs, desires and intentions that produce their values and virtues, make certain consequences valuable, and are the foundation of the rights and responsibilities that are important to their lives;
(2) Understanding different ethical perspectives and concepts;
(3) Ethical issue recognition;
(4) Application of ethical perspectives;
(5) Evaluation of Different Ethical Perspectives
I identify and examine my core principles that influence my ethical conduct
In determining a best life we have to find out where we are!
This includes identifying and examining my feelings and emotions that shape my responses. Can or should I change them?
This includes identifying and examining my core beliefs that guide my actions and decisions. Can or should I change them?
This includes identifying and examining my desires. What desires do I want to have? Can or should I change them?
This includes identifying and examining my intentions (plans). What do I plan on doing in my life? Do my plans lead to my best life?
This includes identifying and examining my values, virtues, important consequences, rights and responsibilities. What are my key moral stakes? Are these the moral stakes that I ought to have?
How did I get to my core beliefs?
Here I provide the circumstances of my life from which I out of which I have forged my beliefs.
This is a brief history of my moral development.
If I can imagine what my life would be like and what beliefs I would have if I were born in very different circumstances, then I can see why it is important to know how I developed into the person I am now.
This can help me see myself as a dynamic situated agent who has progressed from an infant to the present by developing my moral reasoning.
Understanding different ethical perspectives and concepts
Here I evaluate the importance, strength and weaknesses of several important ethical perspectives with respect to my life.
Ethical perspectives include ethical egoism, existentialist ethics, virtue ethics, stoicism, consequentialist/utilitarian ethics, divine command ethics, Kantian deontological ethics, Pluralistic Deontology, social contract theories such as libertarianism and communitarianism.
As various ethical perspectives are discussed in class, I can examine my feelings and emotions, beliefs, desires and intentions, and my moral stakes as they relate to the ethical perspective. In this way, I see how ethical perspective apply to how I make ethical decisions.
Ethical issue recognition
Here I identify ethical issues that are important in my life or issues I may confront in my career. I should relate the complex situations in which I live and identify examples of cross relationships of among ethical issues I recognize.
I should recognize complex, multi-layered (gray) contexts in my life: I show the sub-parts or situational conditions of a scenario in my life that bring two or more ethical dilemmas (issues) into the mix/problem/context/ and I identify the connections among the issues.
I should recognize cross-relationships among the issues in my life: Obvious or subtle connections between/ among the sub-parts or situational conditions of the issues present in a situation (e.g., relationship of production of corn as part of climate change issue).
I apply ethical perspectives to issues.
Everyone faces ethical issues in their lives or at least can imagine ethical issues they will face as they go through their life.
Here I apply ethical perspectives and theories by taking positions on HOW various ethical perspectives/theories/concepts apply to my life. I consider potential ethical issues and the implications and consequences of applying the ethical perspectives to these ethical issues.
Evaluation of Different Ethical Perspectives
Here I examine objections to, as well as assumptions and implications of, different ethical theories as they relate to the ethical issues discussed earlier and respond to those objections with a defense that is adequate and effective to those objections.
What is your best life?
In this summary statement, I describe my plan for putting into practice the ethical (and practical) development required to go from where I am to where I want to be in my best life.
We all have a way to go to improve our lives. Here I identify specific items I wish to improve and plans for making the improvements. This plan can assist me in taking the steps necessary to envision and achieve my best life.
What are my best reasons for trying to live my best life?
What challenges do I face in obtaining your best life and how might I face them?
