1. Practicing Good Ethics....
R. Scott Kretchmar
Penn State..
Practicing Good Ethics....
Sharon Kay Stoll, Ph.D.
Director, Center for ETHICS*
University of Idaho

2. Ethics

3. Doing Business....
What is valuable or worthwhile about doing business..whatever that business might be?

4. Five Steps to Follow... 1. Becoming sensitive to moral issues
2. Respecting and Loving Yourself
3. Looking for Win-win solutions
4. Respecting and Loving Your Craft
5. Searching for Moral Excellence. R. Scott Kretchmar, Practical Philosophy, p. 238.

5. Becoming Sensitive.. Moral Callouses - how they develop
frequent appeals to “everybody else is doing it.”
inability to distinguish between what is acceptable and what is not (no rules against it, behavior must be okay).
difficulty in telling morally sound concepts from trickery.

6. Becoming sensitive....
if not caught, nothing wrong happened...whatever works is right.

7. An Example – Nicholas Dixon

8. Dixonian Ethics
Trash talking, which is the North American term for verbal barbs directed at opponents during a sporting event in order to gain a competitive edge, is widely accepted by athletes and the athletic community as a legitimate part of sport.

9. Dixonian Ethics It is, however, morally indefensible.
A simple Kantian injunction against treating opponents merely as objects to be overcome is sufficient to condemn this verbal abuse.

10. Dixonian Ethics
Attempts to justify trash talking as a strategic ploy that implies no disrespect are disingenuous in view of the fact that its effectiveness depends on opponents' being offended by it.

11. Dixonian Ethics
Nor can we defend trash talking as enhancing the goal of athletic competition, since the ability to verbally abuse opponents and remain impervious to their abuse are extraneous to the athletic excellence that contests are designed to measure.

12. Dixonian Ethics
Attempts to deflect criticisms by partially immunizing sport from moral scrutiny are implausible.
With few exceptions, we judge actions in sport by the same moral standards that we use in any other context.

13. Dixonian View
Moreover, the view that neither trash talking nor other actions in sport are fit subjects for strict moral scrutiny is inconsistent with the often-heard claim that sport promotes moral development.

14. Dixonian Ethics
Moreover, the view that neither trash talking nor other actions in sport are fit subjects for strict moral scrutiny is inconsistent with the often-heard claim that sport promotes moral development.

16. Removing Callouses Making Promises Looking Out for Harm
Looking Out for Selfishness

17. Examining Issues

18. Removing moral callouses
Making promises
to play hard
to play by the rules
all of the rules
all of the time
what else?

19. Making promises .. To work only when we feel like it?
To honor the letter and spirit of the contract.
To keep the interests of the client and students foremost
Anything else?

20. Step 2: Respecting and Loving Yourself...
Cooling Out
Loving Yourself Psychologically
Loving Yourself Philosophically
Humans at Their Best
Seeking internal goods
Developing a cohort life story
Promoting good and avoiding harm

21. Step 3: Looking for Win-Win Solutions

22. Step 4: Respecting the craft
Preserving Contests
rules are the same for all
preserve an appropriate level of difficulty
assure commitment to competition
make sure all competitors are of the “same testing families”.

23. Step 5: Looking for Moral Excellence

24. Ethics

25. Summary - Doing Good Ethics

26. Five Steps to Follow... 1. Becoming sensitive to moral issues
2. Respecting and Loving Yourself
3. Looking for Win-win solutions
4. Respecting and Loving Your Craft
5. Searching for Moral Excellence. R. Scott Krecthmar, Practical Philosophy, p. 238.