Here's a course for anyone with any questions about ethics. I hope you pass. Here's something for all you environment rape and plunderers-------------".........and to have the courage to care beyond our narrow self-interest and short-term gain......................:
This course is designed to highlight the basic ethical principles that govern behavior in the human community. These principles draw from the major worldviews of thought: utilitarianism, Kantianism, egoism, religions, and the more contemporary ethics of care. Each presents a framework with methods or tools (such as the Golden Rule) for applying to situations and coming to judgments about what is right and good.
Values highlighted in the course are:
Interdependency – Everything is connected and interdependent. Humans live in a global human community and are impacted by life experiences of others across the room and around the world: socially, economically, ecologically, and culturally. Ignoring the needs of others within the human community invites suffering and disaster, and a weakening of the web of life.
Sustainability –Organizations, communities, and civilizations sustain over time because they respect and adapt to the governing forces and latticework of life. The building blocks and sustenance for daily life emerge from the earth’s fertility. Respecting the earth’s ecological balance and interdependencies allows for rejuvenation of nature and the replenishing of resources for meeting basic human needs over time.
Dignity and Self Determination – As nature has governing forces, so do humans. The inherent dignity of every person (as defined in 1948 in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights), commands respect at all levels of social relations. Core to respecting human dignity and self-determination are: access to information, to opportunity, and to decision making authority.
Honesty, Truth, and Caring – These three are partnered as a way to recognize the relationships between them that leverage the best in each of the others, e.g., honesty without care can wound and divide; with care it heals and unifies. The truth we see calls for us to be honest with ourselves and each other, and to have the courage to care beyond our narrow self-interest and short-term gain.
http://dragonflyinstitute.com/EverydayEthics.htm
