...My Ethical Perspective Samantha Sacco Westminster Ethics add value to a person and in turn, to society. Ethics require a personal code, a set of beliefs and values that help us to make meaningful choices. The key word in this last statement is, “choice.” Perhaps the most beautiful aspect of humanity is the diversity of thought and lifestyle. I believe that ethics and diversity go hand in hand, as each individual has developed their codes based on their personal experiences and backgrounds. It is this fact that I do not believe in one set of ethics for all people, but rather a mix of ethics. I found each set of ethics interesting and could relate, on some level, to all of them. Behind each set of ethics, there is an underlying motive driving the choices that we make. Ancient philosophers believed that ethics were a means to perfecting human existence. The code that existed for the theorists of the ancients reflects the time that they lived. There is a comforting simplicity that was drawn in ancient ethics and in ideal world these ethics make sense, to me. For instance, Socrates compares human values to the tools of a carpenter, a carpenter must not only possess such tools, but he must know how to use his tools, in order to be successful (Euthyd. 280b-d) I love the idea of values being tools. Tools exist to build, our values also help us to build the existences we wish for ourselves and those around us. This fundamental idea is simple but profound and powerful when analyzing...
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...has been a fascinating journey for my mind. I have broadened my horizons to the ideas and thoughts of great values from this class.To dissect the mind of great achievers from the past has changed my way of life. We can learn to appreciate and characterize persons way of life through their distinction of values. Since the first week of this class I have managed to grow in the way I think about ethical decision making. After reading and analyzing different theories my views have been focused on Aristotle and Confucius. I noticed a lot of the ideas they had were already instilled in my life. The way my family grew me up with such a balanced foundation made me the person I am today. To focus on life's true virtues and the backbone of a family has made me a stronger individual.I take these values with me everywhere I go and in everything I do. I strongly believe you are what you think. Whatever you are doing,whatever your feel, or want are determined by the quality of your thinking. With ethics I have leaned to control this process and open my mind to new ideas. Thinking effectively gives you greater control of your life and the world around you.You can use your mind to achieve your goals as well as enhancing your life. Everyday work and life is a sequence of ideas, values, and thinking. Ethics helps to raise your decision making abilities by creating a pattern of conscious choices. These choices and value can have an impact in our life through professional and personal...
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...1 Summary: The story is about a country mouse and a city mouse. The country mouse lives in a simple house and eats simple food. By comparison, the city mouse lives in a beautiful house and eats well every day. The country mouse wants the life of the city mouse. However, after he goes with the city mouse to taste experience (CH) city life, he does not like it any more. The country mouse prefers to be poor and happy rather than be rich and afraid. (82) Commentary: In my opinion, the story is quite interesting and inspiring in general because it teaches us a life lesson. To me (=I think), the ending seems the most interesting part of the story. This is because in the end the country mouse suddenly realizes/learns that he does not want a rich and dangerous life, but a simple and happy one. I like this part because it also inspires us/leads us to think deeply about our own lives. We might think that a good life means a rich life. However, (=But) according to the story, a good life should be simple and happy. It gives us a different idea about life, which I also agree with itthis . Therefore, (=so) I think this story is interesting and inspiring. (122) Deconstruction: yes, this forms a very good base for your teaching script – well done! VPs: GREEN: Mental*8; > BLUE: Relational*6; > PINK: Material*3 Mental process and relational process are significant in this commentary. A few material verbs occur. Reason: Mental verbs construe both the change of...
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...nothing. There is no god; maybe he has gone away, or perhaps he was never there to begin with. There are no reasons, no master plan, no explanations. Just you, and me, and your family, and my family, and all the people we know, and all the people they know, and all the rest. Just people. If somebody gets sick and dies, they get sick and die, and that's that. If someone wants to hurt someone else, they do it. At the same time, though, we can't forget that if somebody wants to help someone, then they don't need a rationalization for that action, either. They just do it. Everyone is responsible for 'just doing things', accountable for the things that they choose to do. This world is, at its heart, chaotic and unpredictable. This is the world of the existentialist. They ask those big life questions. The ones we all want to know and are all trying to find out. If you went into almost any philosophy class today you might hear the question, “What is the meaning of life?” Nothing makes humans more curious than to determine what their purpose is. This is something humans begin contemplating at a very young age. Children are asked what they want to be when they grow up; they play dress up and use their imaginations to create themselves a purpose in life. It is a natural human instinct to want a purpose in life. Most humans see it unnatural to reject the path that is safe and familiar. People who live alternative lifestyles are often looked down upon. Human beings live to find their purpose...
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...A good life is what everybody wants. But what does it mean to have a good life? Everybody has different ideas of a good life. Some people think more about themselves, others like to help people. Both are examples of good life, but as long as you are happy with yourself, you are having a good life. In my essays, I ¡ ¦ll tell you my ideas of a good life. You might not totally agree with me, but I ¡ ¦ll guarantee you will learn something from it. First and I personally think it ¡ ¦s the most important quality of a good life is happiness. Nobody tell you to get happy, it is something that you have to require by yourself. When you are happy, you feel like you have the power to do anything, say anything, and go anywhere you want. When you are happy, you see everything positive, then you will be nice to your co-workers or classmates. If you are happy, you will have more friends. The more friends you have, the happier you will be. It ¡ ¦s like going in a positive cycle. If you are unhappy all the time and not very cooperate with other people, you will most likely to get no friends. When you don ¡ ¦t have friends, you feel sad and feel left out. Now you are going on a negative cycle and it ¡ ¦s hard to get out of that. So it ¡ ¦s important to start of in a positive attitude. My second idea is friendship. I think it is just as important as happiness. Like I stated earlier, when you have friends, you can be happy. A really close friend can be a second self. From a Roman saying, ¡ §A...
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...IMPROVE MY PERFORMANCE PREPARE BEFORE EVERY SIGNIFICANT EVENT. The best way to improve the performance is by good preparation. For example, if we are going to present a paper or to take an exam our performance mainly lies on how much we prepare on it. By good preparation we will get an idea what we are doing. Sometime even though we are brilliant if we didn’t prepare the result will be bad. A good performance lies on hardworking and how much time we take to prepare for it. For example, if we ask someone who failed or performed low they might have only one answer “I didn’t prepare well”. We must have a good idea what we are going to do. HAVE GOOD CONTROL OVER THE EMOTIONS AND MOODS. Emotions and moods have a good control over the performance. If we are too much emotional it will affect our performance. The emotions are more action oriented and the moods are less action oriented. Research shows that emotions are critical to rational thinking. For example, if we are excited or happy it will have a high positive affect on the performance and if we are sad or nervous it will affect our performance very badly. I still remember the first paper presentation of my life. I felt nervous to speak in front of the audience and it affected my performance. We must have good control over the emotions and moods so that we can improve the performance. HAVE ADEQUATE AMOUNT OF REST The adequate amount of rest is a key factor in performance. We must have good amount of rest for good mental...
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...your life. Every people have many kind of thinking are different because each people has their own idea or something that they make it to make a decision. So, it depends on us that how you use thinking skills in your opinion by critical process that more reason. Take a thinking skill to appropriate with each case that people face in a fact. Well, I want to tell you that why thinking skills are important to every person. First, thinking skills can help to plan and thinking by step to step. People can evaluate about their information that they get understand what information would like to tell you a detail. If you use thinking skills to solve problem, you can look a future target that you want to receive. Mover, we can explain and create about the new idea by thinking positive. 2. How is critical thinking is important in your life? Ans Critical thinking is the ability to think that clearly and rationally. In my life I use it by this following -Understand the logical that relation between my own idea -Solve the problem that enter in my life -reflect on the justification of one’s own belief and value Critical thinking is not a matter of accumulate information. Sometime my experience can teach me how I do this problem is not necessarily good at critical thinking. Critical thinking can help me to improve process of thinking, acquire knowledge, improve my theories...
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...important factors. These ideas should also pertain to all individuals. Because these are beliefs, these ideas should also be taught. Whether or not people grasp the idea, the moral theory should be discussed and be able to be understood. The last requirement of a workable set of standards is it must be able to resolve issues, duties, and obligations among the people. There should be an explanation how individuals can choose the action that will be most moral. Ethics are moral principles that govern an individual or group’s behavior. It is a philosophical treatment of the moral order. The two different approaches to ethics include scientific or philosophical. The sources of ethics stem from experience, as well as principles taught through discipline. For example most parents teach you from the start it is wrong to hurt others, steal, lie, etc. Many people are also influenced through theology. For example, “Thou shall not kill”, this is the sixth commandment in the Bible’s Old Testament at Exodus, Chapter 20. Even though there has been an effort to make morality independent of religion, many religions include basic moral principles. There is a natural law when it comes to ethics. “Do good and avoid evil”, “Lead a life regulated according to reason”, so on and so forth. With those types of ideas being the base, a workable moral system can grow from there. The greatest influences on my personal views of my own moral standards come from experience. Not to say my parents didn’t play...
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...Defining the “Good Life” Growing up my dad always told me that I will never be able to look back at everything I accomplished and say “I made it,” he said I might be able to when I retire but not anytime soon. I came of age with this mentality in the back of my mind, I worked, never becoming complacent with where I was. I was only focussed on where I wanted to be and that wasn’t there in that moment. In that moment I was focussed on one thing, the “good life.” In that moment, as I powered down my coffee trying to study, it wasn’t because I wanted to learn, but because I wanted my Ferrari. I was studying business not for pleasure but to make money. Yet by pursuing these material good was I pursuing the best life for me? Was I pursuing my personal definition of the “good life” or the definition of the “good life” inspired by people like Kanye West, who might even hate their “good life?” People who have found their higher level pleasures but are beginning to think it isn’t worth the trade off. Failure to question and change said trade off will only result in this person fall victim to the tyranny of custom just as Kanye West did: a man who wrote a song titled “The Good Life.” Though the idea of the “good life” is subjective there are many factors to take into account but ultimately you must decide for yourself whether the life you’re living is your definition of the “good life.” Kanye West is a singer/ songwriter and is famous for being obnoxious, he produces amazing music...
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...Ethics in My Life 10/24/2013 Trying to be Ethical The population of the world is vast and culturally different. The different world view and cultural norms are what make our world so great. The different views give different perspective. With these perspectives we can look at the world in a different view. The study of ethics does not just look at the idea that everyone is the same but rather it entails the whole of the population. Ethics is opinion based and can be viewed by this, “if you think it is moral that it it is, for you”. What someone thinks is ethical might be different than what another might think is ethical. Ethics are what keep us from doing “right” and “wrong”. I feel that my ethical parameters allow me to live a life that I feel is good. The way that I view the world has changed over my life span. Growing up I was raised Catholic. I viewed the world as a sinful place where people were trying to be good in a world that is full of hate. This idea of religion being shoved down my throat gave me a negative view on the world. I made some mistakes and bad choices because of these feelings. Because of them I grew and now have a different world view. I studied philosophy and gained respect for people and myself; respect for how people think and feel. My life I live is based out of love today. I find that if my actions are based out of good, I am happy and others around me are too. Ethics and philosophy have changed my life. The betterment of my life can be directly...
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...self-idea since person doesn’t care for being told they are bad or that they ought to change somehow. This can give persons a low self-idea. It can make individuals see themselves negatively. When I look at my life, from where I have been to where I am presently and I look at who can to boost my ego. Then, there are the ones who have negative comments about everything I do which is buster my ego. I will explain in my biggest ego boosters and my biggest ego boosters. I will give information how these people influenced my life An ego booster that I have had in my life would need to be my mom and my father. With respect to my family, they are always encouraging me that would perform to my most ability in school and in addition succeeding in life. My family boosted my ego by continually telling me that I can do it and never to give up. They would let me know that I would be doing a great job showing when in reality we both realize that I was not doing great, but rather to hear somebody letting you know that you are doing great improves you need to do. So when they let me know I was doing great I was being encouraged to show improvement over I was. My family has made me the person who I am today; I generally need to succeed in my life. Then I have had so some ego busters all through my life that they don’t want you to succeed, but as we all realize it will never work because I am the type of person who needs to build myself a better person. The biggest one I ever had was my co-worker...
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...There are so many options and ideas around photography in advertising, I love a challenge and during my research I came across the idea to photograph gemstones. Fire and brilliance are two categories under which we would find gems stones and diamonds. Optical gemology is the identifications term used to describe the characteristics of the color, transparency and sheen of these breathtaking stones. The lusters and quality of light that reflects from the surface of a stone, observing the transparency of a gem or diamond would depend on the amount of light that penetrates through the stones and this has an effect on the chemical and crystalline, that is how the reflecting of the colors are lightened up. The key to success with this...
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...can at time be used to my advantage. By talking I can make a person feel comfortable in communicating. I can easily get along with others being the sociable person that I am. I think this is a strength because when it comes to team work I can get along very well. Agreeableness is another factor that contributed to my strengths. The test says that I'm good natured. I guess that means that I'm naturally a good person. This means that I often make the righteous choice as opposed to being negative all the time. Being cooperative is a measure of my propensity to differ from others. I'm also a trusting person which can sometimes be good and bad thing. If I put my trust in the wrong person I might be disappointed if that person turns out to be untrustworthy. I consider myself to be a responsible person. I am a person that someone could count on to come through with the necessary plans or actions. I'm very persistent in achieving my goals. I don't stop until I’ve finished the job. Being emotionally stable has it’s good factors. Not getting my way all the time contributes to emotional stability. Being strong & concentrating on the task at hand. Treating life like a challenge & not a struggle plays a good part in handling my emotions. Understanding that things aren't usually personally & I’m not the only one facing challenges. I am open to new experiences. The test says that I'm an imaginative person. I can come up with new ideas and invent new products...
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...do during life, whether they are changes in your everyday activities, starting a new education, continuing education or working on your career there are many different ways to determine your success. You definitely need to be organized, if you’re a student the organization helps to make sure you are getting the best of your education, preparing for assignments properly and learning everything you can not just everything you should. Being open minded about things will help you be successful in anything you do, be willing to listen to other people and their ideas, you may end up getting an idea you never even considered. Personality is a huge make or break for a lot of peoples lives, careers and education; having a good personality and being someone that gets along with others easier or who can handle the public better will get a lot farther in life than those that are consistently in a bad mood and always thing the world is out to get them. Continuing your education is also a good life perspective to have, taking the initiative to ask questions, take extra classes, or just spend time with those who may know things you do not are great ways to continue to learn in life as well as your career. No one is perfect, we all have things in life we need to work on, personally my organizational skills are probably my biggest downfall. There are definitely times that my life and work environment are very organized and details and then there are other parts of my life that I definitely...
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...Though Sunstein does recognize that the modern media is a blessing for society as a whole, he makes the argument that one must be careful with it if the United States wishes to maintain a fair democratic form of government. Cass Sunstein is not wrong to be concerned with the power and changes that the advances in technology, especially the Internet, have caused. However, Sunstein has an overly radical view of what must be done, an unrealistic view of the true good, and how that good outweighs the cons brought by this new digital world. The discussion begins with a firm statement of Sunstein’s concerns about the negative affects of the Internet on the liberal democracy intended by America’s Founding Fathers. His principle concerns are the momentous increase in the availability of personalized filtering and the decrease in general-interest intermediaries such as national newspapers and news networks. Both of these concerns are plausible ones, for they truly have changed the way democracy functions and the way that ideas flow in the United States. Filtering today is different than it used to be in the past. Before the Internet and the miraculous capabilities that it introduced, filtering was mostly done by the producers of mass media. The editors decided what information to include or exclude before sharing it with the country. As such, a fair balance between different viewpoints (such as those of the liberal and those of the more conservative) was more likely to be displayed...
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