Ethics Awareness Analysis Paper

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Ethics Awareness Analysis Paper

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September 18, 2010

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Ethics Awareness Analysis Paper

Ethical awareness provides the steps to ensure that decisions made are of ethical quality. Shortcuts are nonexistent when making ethical decisions, as making the "right" decisions requires significant personal judgments that will affect others. This paper will cover this undisclosed person's ethical profile based on the results from the ethical awareness inventory taken. Interpretation of the results will apply to this person's personal and professional development addressing her use of ethics in thinking and decision-making as well as dealing with opposing interpretations of ethical behavior from others.

Interpreting the Results

The four core beliefs of ethical philosophy associated with the ethical awareness inventory are character, obligation, results, and equity. This person's ethical profile strongly lined up with "obligation." This meant that her ethical perspective concentrated on a person's duty or obligation in doing what is morally right as this person influences his or her conduct in a conscious manner.

She gauges one's actions by analyzing one's objective behind an action to rule whether the behavior is ethical or not versus relying on results of the behavior alone. In this person's perspective, to be ethical is to choose how one decides to behave as well as what rules he or she is willing to acknowledge. Furthermore, she requires ethical principles as universally accepted, signifies human dignity, and obligates one's free will and self-reliance.

"The ultimate basis for ethics is clear: Human behavior has consequences for the welfare of others. We are capable of acting toward others in such a way as to increase or decrease the quality of their lives. We are capable of helping or harming. What is more, we are theoretically capable of understanding when we are doing the one and when the other. This...