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Sharon Kay Stoll, Ph.D.Director, Center for ETHICS*

University of Idaho

Practicing Good Ethics....

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Ethics

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Doing Business....

What is valuable or worthwhile about doing business..whatever that

business might be?

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Five Steps to Follow...

1. Becoming sensitive to moral issues

2. Respecting and Loving Yourself 3. Looking for Win-win solutions 4. Respecting and Loving Your Craft 5. Searching for Moral Excellence. R.

Scott Kretchmar, Practical Philosophy, p. 238.

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Becoming Sensitive..

Moral Callouses - how they develop frequent appeals to “everybody else

is doing it.” inability to distinguish between what

is acceptable and what is not (no rules against it, behavior must be okay).

difficulty in telling morally sound concepts from trickery.

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Becoming sensitive.... if not caught, nothing wrong

happened...whatever works is right.

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An example - Wall Street

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Removing Callouses

Making Promises Looking Out for Harm Looking Out for Selfishness

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Examining Issues

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Removing moral callouses

Making promises to play hard to play by the

rules all of the rules all of the time what else?

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Making promises .. To work only when we

feel like it? To honor the letter and

spirit of the contract. To keep the interests

of the client and students foremost

Anything else?

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Step 2: Respecting and Loving Yourself...

Cooling Out Loving Yourself Psychologically Loving Yourself Philosophically Humans at Their Best

Seeking internal goods Developing a cohort life story Promoting good and avoiding

harm

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Step 3: Looking for Win-Win Solutions

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Step 4: Respecting the craft

Preserving Contests rules are the same for all preserve an appropriate level of

difficulty assure commitment to

competition make sure all competitors are of

the “same testing families”.

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Step 5: Looking for Moral Excellence

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Ethics

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Summary - Doing Good Ethics

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Five Steps to Follow...

1. Becoming sensitive to moral issues

2. Respecting and Loving Yourself

3. Looking for Win-win solutions

4. Respecting and Loving Your Craft

5. Searching for Moral Excellence. R. Scott Krecthmar, Practical Philosophy, p. 238.