ETHICS YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW

During this class I have provided a series of reviews, exercises, and suggestions for your consideration, reflection, and application. The values and ethics upon which the fabric of our communities are built extend from earlier family values and community norms into the mores, ethics, and morals of the present moment. The use of these guides and ethical principles now and tomorrow can help us prosper in the global community and the local towns and cities where we live out the activities of daily living.

More specifically, the following tools have been posed for your skills and life development enhancement, for example:

1. Suggestions of specific associations with single human values with a selected ethical principle and how that might be used in a named situation or topic.

2. Exercises that point to the application of an ethical guide directed at a topic or situation named in an assignment.

3. Thought experiments posing an activity or research step that extends your stated insights into the possible future use of learnings acquired here.

4. Possible group efforts to obtain explore problems, focus on options, and pose plans and actions using ethical principles and your personal gifts.

5. Reflective questions involving portions of any of the above four items.

I would encourage you to retain the documents and things of interest to you from this class for future use—nearby and faraway. You, too, can use things similar to the above tools steps in your would, which combined with all our efforts is OUR world. Be innovative, identify what is real, design meaningful applications, act on your insights with wisdom and compassion into the coming, exciting future!

For more examples of the resources and kinds of options surrounding us all in the digital age, see:

Examples of my past interests that reflect the applications and extensions of the tools posed in this class that I have been using for the past 30 years; you can make similar applications—see my bio, as described just below.

A list of my domains that is attached to my biography on the school page online; click on the faculty list and then on my name. Go to the bottom of the bio for a posted list of domains, some of which deal with the issues posed in class, for example,

http://www.ethicsclasses.com

http://www.appliedethics.us

Do well. Be well.

Aaron Lee Givan, MC, PhD

8-8-2015