1. Ethics & civics Self & World: Impact of Technological
Advances in Biotechnology
Dr. Karen Guzman

2. ethics
Standard of behavior which guides choosing the best action in any situation

3. Ethical decision making: approaches
Utilitarian
Rights
Fairness / Justice
Common Good
Virtue Approach
Ethical decision making: approaches

4. Civics
Can be defined as the “public life of the citizen concerned with the affairs of the community and nation”
National Standards

5. Civics includes Rights of the Citizenship Socioeconomics and status
 Individual
 Community/Public
Citizenship
Socioeconomics and status
Economic policies
Culture, Society, & Values
Civics includes

6. Civics life Encompasses: Involvement: Manifested:
 Value of human rights
 Individual’s responsibility to society and the community
Involvement:
 Political: e.g. voting, paying taxes
 Non-political: e.g. helping in community volunteering at a school
Manifested:
 Laws
 Policies  Guidelines
Civics life

7. Role of politics
“Process by which a group of people, whose opinions or interests might be divergent, reach collective decisions that are generally regarded as binding on the group and enforced as common policy.”
“…Politics necessarily arises whenever groups of people live together, since they must always reach collective decisions of one kind or another.”
National Standards