What is Ethics?  

Oleh:

Ward, Stephen J. A.

Jenis: Article from Books - E-Book
Dalam koleksi: Ethics and the Media: An Introduction, page 7-51.
Topik: Ethics; The Ethical Sphere; Theorizing About Ethics; Philosophical Ethics
Fulltext: What is Ethics.pdf (528.2KB)

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Suppose that you live with your wife, Ellen, and your mother-in-law, Dorothy, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Dorothy, at 93, is not capable of living alone. Dorothy has become progressively more dif? cult to live with. Ellen has developed health problems from the pressure of caring for Dorothy. A physician strongly advises Ellen to move Dorothy to a nursing home, a move Dorothy would strongly oppose. It would be easier if you lied – tell Dorothy her move to a nursing home is temporary, while you and Ellen go on holiday. As you attempt to decide, you experience con? icting emotions and thoughts. How can you do what is best for Dorothy, while respecting her desires and autonomy? Should you simply soldier on, allowing her to remain i n your house? Or do you have to take Ellen’s physical deterioration as your main concern? What is the right thing to do for Ellen, for Dorothy, and for the three of you? Most of us recognize this situation as “ethical” because it raises questions about the correct thing to do, apart from self-interest and what is required legally. Ethical situations raise questions about values, responsibilities, and achieving certain goods while not ignoring the rights of others. Deciding on Dorothy’s health care exhibits features t ypical of most ethical problems: pressure to decide under uncertainty; a complex set of facts; con? icting values and options. We will work with situations of this kind throughout this book only the situations will involve media practice – what responsible news media should do across a range of typical problems. The aim of our study is two- fold: (1) to clarify and critique our beliefs about what constitutes ethical media practice; and (2) to develop and improve our ethical reasoning by application to problems. “Improve” here means we act more consistently, think more deeply, reason more acutely, and reach better informed ethical.

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