DEVRY ETHC 445 Week 7 DQ 2 Assemble and Test Your Personal Ethics Statement

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DEVRY ETHC 445 Week 7 DQ 2 Assemble and Test Your
Personal Ethics Statement

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• ETHC 445 Week 7 DQ 2 Assemble and Test Your
  Personal Ethics Statement
• This week we will work on creating your own
  statement of personal ethics.
• To get started, read summarizing review of our
  great and famous ethics and what they have taught
  us -- found in our lecture this week.Then, let's
  work on creating one for you.

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• Your goal for the end of this thread is to have
  created a personal ethical philosophy and be able
  to tell your classmates from which philosophies
  you created it and why the contents are important
  and meaningful for you. List its precepts. (You
  will need to do this on the Final Exam.)
• After you have assembled and posted your personal
  ethics statement, responded to what others may
  have said to you and thought about what you have
  posted to others, then take your statement and
  use it to work through the famous case of the
  Ring of Gyges.
• One of the great examples of ethics and morals in
  all of literature comes from Plato who wrote
  about the Ring of Gyges in
• The Republic, Book II, starting at paragraph
  359a.
• For those who wish to read the whole story, it is
  in the Doc Sharing tab and here is a link to the
  story -- Ring of Gyges.
• The story goes that Gyges was a shepherd in the
  service of the King. In a most unusual
  circumstance he came upon a dead man, removed the
  man's ring, and discovered that it made him
  invisible. He conspired to take the periodic
  report of the shepherds to the King -- once there
  he seduced the Queen and eventually took control
  of the Kingdom by conspiring with the Queen.
  Plato continues the story

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• "Suppose now that there were two such magic
  rings, and the just put on one of them and the
  unjust the other no man can be imagined to be of
  such an iron nature that he would stand fast in
  justice. No man would keep his hands off what was
  not his own when he could safely take what he
  liked out of the market, or go into houses and
  lie with any one at his pleasure, or kill or
  release from prison whom he would, and in all
  respects be like a God among men. Then the
  actions of the just would be as the actions of
  the unjust they would both come at last to the
  same point. And this we may truly affirm to be a
  great proof that a man is just, not willingly or
  because he thinks that justice is any good to him
  individually, but of necessity, for wherever any
  one thinks that he can safely be unjust, there he
  is unjust. For all men believe in their hearts
  that injustice is far more profitable to the
  individual than justice, and he who argues as I
  have been supposing, will say that they are
  right."
• This story raises up the question of what
  sanctions prevent people from just taking any
  liberties they are inclined to take.
• The whole subject of ethics, seen in large scale,
  is that of accepting and living under moral
  standards.

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• 1. Using YOUR personal ethical statement that you
  have created, what would you do if you had that
  second ring?
• 2. What else within this course helps in
  responding to this fictitious situation or in
  explaining it?
• 3. Respond to your classmates' posts. Are they
  holding true to their own personal ethical
  philosophies in their resolutions of this
  dilemma?
• Pick one or more of the above, and post below!