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Leadership & Ethics
Ethics:Terms and Associations
Ethical Term | Association |
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Cultural norms | rules of behavior |
Anthropocentric | humans rule |
Morals | right and wrong |
Code of ethics | professions have these |
Teleology | focus on the outcomes |
Means | "ends" justify |
Ends | "means" justify |
Rational | thought based |
Character | patterns of moral behavior |
Personalism | people first not laws |
Community | or individual |
Religion | a set of beliefs based on teachings |
Happiness factor | greatest good for greatest # |
Social contract | protects lives and property |
Correct | factually true |
Excesses | positive extremes |
Good | common |
Right | morally true |
Pragmatism | what is practical |
Deficiencies | negative extremes |
Worldview | beliefs about how the world works |
Proactive | forethought driven decisions |
Dilemma | right vs. right |
Relative | it depends |
Ethical spheres | you or group or society or world |
Mercy | as opposed to justice |
Human nature | traits shared by all humans |
Ontological | nature of being |
Holistic | all of something |
Long term | as opposed to short term |
Personality | traits of mind & behavior |
Values | things that have personal worth |
Loyalty | or truth |
Egoistic | self centered |
Legalism | strict adherence to rules |
Reactive | circumstance driven decisions |
Pleasure | absence of pain |
Absolute | universal |
Ethics | the study of morals |
Self evident | you know it when you see it |
Deontology | focused on process |
Goodwill | right thing for the right reason |
Antinomianism | total freedom |
Virtue | opposite of vice |
Freewill | ability to choose |
Altruistic | other centered |