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PROFESSIONALISM AND
ETHICS
EGN 4034
FALL 2008
CHAPTER 3-4
Organizing Principles
CHAPTER 3-4
LEARING OBJECTIVES
(Deontology)
Utilitarian Thinking
Three Utilitarian Approaches
Cost/Benefit
Q What might be an example of
cost/benefit?
Act Utilitarianism
Rule Utilitarianism
Utilitarian Thinking
Three Utilitarian Approaches
Cost/Benefit
Utilitarian Thinking
Three Utilitarian Approaches
Cost/Benefit Problems
Utilitarian Thinking
Three Utilitarian Approaches
Act Utilitarianism
Utilitarian Thinking
Golden Rule
Basically the Universality principle
Resolution of a moral issue must be one
that would be universally acceptable if
others resolved similar issues in similar
ways.
Understandably, both Utilitarianism and
Respect for Persons ethics employ this
principle.
Self-Defeating Test
Another application of the universalizability
principle.
Would I be able to perform the same action
in the same or similar circumstances if
everyone else performed the same action in
the same or similar circumstances
What is an example of such an act that
would be self-defeating?
Rights Test
Because Rights can sometimes conflict, a
system of priority must be given to
individual rights.
Q - What is an example of conflicting
rights?
Similar to the Rule Utilitarian test, the
Rights Test applies a list of universal rights
arranged in a hierarchy of importance.
Utilitarian Thinking
Three Utilitarian Approaches
Cost/Benefit
Act Utilitarianism
Rule Utilitarianism
Golden Rule
Self-Defeating Test
Rights Test
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