7/12/2015

ELI Ethical Lens Inventory

Results
ASHLEY FOURNIER

You listen to your intuition (sensibility) to determine the greatest good for each individual (autonomy).
Core: Autonomy and Sensibility
You prioritize the value of autonomy over equality. Your primary concern is protecting individual rights. You believe this is the best way to assure that everyone in the community is treated fairly. You strongly value sensibility over rationality. Your commitment to examining each situation in its own context is so strong that you resist applying universal rules even when this makes the most sense or produces the best result.
Classical: Prudence
You demonstrate wisdom in practical matters and foresight as you act with enlightened self-interest in a particular situation. You also bring optimism, imagination and the gift of entrepreneurship to the table.
Key: “I make choices that are good for everyone.”
Because you value autonomy and sensibility, you tend to assume that each person operates from a clear sense of their own values.
Behavior: Creating the Greatest Good
You define an ethical person as one who makes responsible choices that benefit many different individuals at the same time. You seek "win-win" results for everyone, even in complex situations.
Tools: Experience
You see the current situation in the light of past experiences and tend to use a combination of intuition and imagination to incorporate new information and solve problems. You focus on what is actually happening and consider solutions that make many people happy. You are able to consider multiple perspectives and are comfortable with ambiguity.
Gift: Free Will
Because you value autonomy, you are self-reliant and accountable, and you work to assure that others can be as well. You are not afraid to pursue what delights you and brings you pleasure, both in the short term and the long-term. You want this freedom for each person to seek their ideal goals in life.
Blind: Overconfidence in self-efficacy (Satisfied with too little good)
Sometimes you fail to be accountable to those who are depending on you when you exercise your free will. So long as you've satisfied your own needs, you can become complacent, leaving problems unresolved in the long-term and everyone else to fend for themselves.
Risk: Reducing decisions to a cost-benefit analysis
If you do not assure that all have free will, you run the risk of reducing decisions to a narrow and purely financial cost-benefit analysis. You tend to cut corners as you become attached to achieving your own goals.
Temptation: Expedience
If you are not paying attention, you can be tempted to expedience: basing your actions on what is politic or advantageous rather than what is right or just. You will convince yourself that everyone will be happy in the end and not mind a few insignificant corners being cut.
Vice: Becoming Greedy
If you fail to exercise free will responsibly, your healthy pursuit of good for all can devolve into an excuse for taking as much for yourself as you can get away with. A desire to consume more than you need (gluttony), and craving for pleasures of the body(lust) can become problems for people who prefer this lens.
Crisis: Failure
Unless you develop the practice of mindfulness and reflection, at some point you will face failure. No one can accomplish or acquire everything and the more you do, the less satisfying it becomes. If you find you have few friends, it could be because your acquisitiveness drives them away.
Seeing: Use your head
To see more clearly, check to see whether your gut and your head agree. To find balance, explore the gifts of the other lenses - consistency and concern for the whole community. Because you tend toward inconsistency at the best of times, remember that consistency is not uniformity.
Sometimes one-size does fit all and the best resolution is the application of a universal principle. As you consider what will provide the greatest good, temper your actions with consideration of the needs of the whole community and a consistent approach to similar situations. As you learn to consider other perspectives in your decision making process, you will live out the best of your ideals with compassion and care for others.