MDSC63H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Normative Ethics, Alexis De Tocqueville, Eth
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There are no right or correct answers in it. Media ethics:process that evolves with the world in which media operate where appropriate. Bentham"s and mill"s utilitarian principle of the greatest good for the greatest number. Kant"s imperatives of treating every moral rule as if it were a universal law and treating people as ends instead of a means to an end. Overview: theoretical foundations for media ethics (page 3-13) Media ethics concerns right and wrong, good and bad, better and worse actions taken by people working in the field of journalism and mass communication. Media themselves can"t be ethical or unethical, only their workers can. Ethics relates to duty to self and to others (private/personal and duties to others) Summum bonum: the highest good in professional practise, heightening self-respect and. Ethical concern can manifest itself in two main emphases: Get help from some kind of instinctive, metaphysical, or mystical sense. Think of self first and the transvaluation of a person.
