Developing professional
habits and manners is more important now than ever. Professional Ethics and
Etiquette helps students see how a professional is characterized not only
by his or her technical skills, but also by the way in which he or she
interacts with others.
Professional Ethics and Etiquette shows students how to determine different
personality types (including their own) and how cultivating qualities such as
fairness, attentiveness, modesty, and mutual respect in communication leads to
productive and professional relationships.
Aristotle's teaching on the subject of happiness has been a topic of intense philosophical. Did he hold that happiness consists of the exercise of all the virtues, moral and intellectual, or that supreme happiness is to be found only in the practice of philosophical contemplation? The question is vital to the relevance of his ethics today. Anthony Kenny helped to set the terms of the debate a quarter of a century ago. Later, in his book The Aristotelian Ethics, he argued that Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics has no less claim than the better-known Nicomachean Ethics...
The Ethics Of School Administration
This popular text features a rigorous yet practical approach to the
difficult dilemmas that so often arise in school administration. Using
case studies to illustrate particular ethical issues, the authors cover
such topics as: standards, assessment and evaluation, equal
opportunity, multiculturalism, religious differences, due process,
freedom of expression, personal liberty and authority.
This course addresses some of the eternal questions that man has grappled with since the beginning of time. What is good? What is bad? Why is justice important? Why is it better to be good and just than it is to be bad and unjust? Most human beings have the faculty to discern between right and wrong, good and bad behavior, and to make judgments over what is just and what is unjust. But why are ethics important to us? This course looks at our history as ethical beings. We’ll travel into the very heart of mankind’s greatest philosophical dilemmas—to the origins of our moral values and the problem of ethics.