LAW 122 Lecture 8: Ethical Reasoning

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Law and Business
• Course: LAW 122
• Professor: Nick Iannazzo

Document Summary

Ethics: the critical, structured examination of how individuals and institutions should behave when their actions affect others; providing reasoned arguments for why we should (or should not) behave certain ways. Ethics becomes harder when important conflict values or principles conflict. Ethical judgement involves weighing competing values or principles. In ethical reasoning, we appeal to principles and values. A value is something good that we ought to promote: honesty, kindness. A principle is a rule, usually grounded in a value, that tells you what you should do. Character/virtue: what kind of person to be/example to set. Who will be helped or hurt in some way: will a(cid:374)y optio(cid:374) violate so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e s rights, or break a pro(cid:373)ise, are there any special duties of loyalty here, weigh the importance of a, b and c, make a decision.