What is “ethics”? Ethics is a form of moral philosophy, or can be described as an organised approach to what exactly is right and wrong and from whom’s perspective. This ethics course is highly valuable.  Everyone in business, charity, work, employment, teaching, politics, families and more are continually confronted with ethical decisions.  Having a deep understanding of ethics and morality if a vital of defining who we are and how we make decisions.
Ethics is not just for human rights workers, it is for:
- doctors
- teachers
- lawyers
- decision makers
- politics
- corporations
- charity workers
- anyone with an interest in justice
Course Aims:
- Understand the scope, nature and language of ethics
- Demonstrate a capacity to argue varying viewpoints about ethics
- Discuss how conflicting points of view might be rationalized in ethics
- Discuss the virtues found or lacking in different people and groups of people
- Identify how and why different people will choose to adopt one ethical position rather than another
- Explain the social contract
- Explain how ethics can be applied to determine and manage the rights of individuals
- Explain how ethics can be applied to better manage the effective functioning of human societies
- Explain how ethics can be applied by people in the work they do, on a daily basis and throughout an entire career
There are 9 lessons in this course:
- Overview and Introductory Ethics
- Who invented ethics – What are its origins?
- Ethics and Philosophy
- Current Ethical Theories:
- Divine Command Theory of Ethics
- The Theory of Forms Theory of Ethics
- Theory of Relative Ethics
- The Three Areas of Ethics
- What determines your own Ethics/ Sense of Morality?
- Arguing an Ethical Position – An Overview of Meta Ethics
- Metaethical Theories
- Expressivism Theories (Non-Cognitive)
- Accommodating Varying Viewpoints
- Different Ethical Viewpoints
- Ethical Dilemmas
- Virtues and Morality
- Developmental Model of Virtue Ethics
- Morality
- Reasons for Ethical Decisions
- Theories of Ethical Decision- Making
- The Theories in More Detail
- The Principle of Double Effect
- The Social Contract
- Principle of Self-Interest
- Theories of Social Contract
- Twentieth Century Social Contract Theory
- Applied Ethics A – An Individual’s Rights
- Basic Human Rights
- The Underpinning Values of Human Rights
- Categories of Human Rights
- Human Rights Breaches
- Applied Ethics A
- Applied Ethics B – An Ethical Society
- What Is An Ethical Society?
- Applied Ethics B
- Case Study: African Caribbean People and Schizophrenia
- Applied Ethics C – Ethics in Work and Business
- Why do Organisations Need Ethics?
- Applied Ethics C – Organisations and Professions
- Benefits of Ethics in Healthcare
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school’s tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.