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Ethics provides the preconditions for the making of good public policy as all policies depend on it. This book builds upon the authors’ teaching and research in government ethics. As a core text for upper-level undergraduate and beginning graduate students, it will examine conceptual tools to clarify moral experiences, analyze individual decision making strategies, and assess organizational ethics programs. The emphasis is not only on “how to,” but also “why.” The manuscript will be written in a manner accessible to academicians, students, and managers; it will to offer them practical knowledge and insight into ethics in government. To that end, the book is not about right and wrong answers. Rather it aims to understand ethics and human behavior in an analytical, yet provocative manner by extending one's ordinary moral experience by making it explicit, clearer, and more consistent.
Values, Ethics, and Dilemmas
Values, Ethics, and Dilemmas
The time is always right to do what is right.
This third chapter in Part I defines values, ethics, and dilemmas. Understanding these terms is a prerequisite to the rest of the book. Indeed, as Socrates believed, “The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.” Chapter objectives include
- identifying values and outlining them as found in American culture,
- applying values in public service,
- defining ethics,
- discerning when an issue is an ethical one,
- differentiating an ethical problem from an ethical dilemma,
- analyzing the domains of human action, and
- recognizing factors that endanger a concern for ethics.
As with so much of Western civilization, it is helpful to go back to ancient Greece to gain a perspective on contemporary times. The Greek root word for ethics ...
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