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Leadership & Ethics
Ethics:Terms and Associations
| Ethical Term | Association |
|---|---|
| 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 |