Introduction An Educational leader has an awesome responsibility. There are many challenges as well as opportunities to address. Critical to being successful is the ethical compass which guides your decision making. Every decision should be made for the common good.…
Thucydides offers a comprehensive analysis of the formation of early Greek cities during ancient times in the Peloponnesian War. His depiction portrays early Greeks as barbaric and simplistic freeloaders, who often pillaged each other to fulfill their own callow self-interest. According to Thucydides, they came together to develop cities out of a desire for safety without the turbulence of conflict. In The Republic, Glaucon paints a similar vision of politics in his speech to Socrates about the emergence of justice. Through arguing that justice evolves as a by-product of individuals’ natural tendency to exhibit injustice, Glaucon suggests people band together to create laws and cities to seek protection against the mighty inflicting injustice…
Misusing power creates discontent in society which may cause conflict with the oppressor, as seen in Richard III, or hatred toward oneself, as seen in Brave New World. Another consequence of power abuse is the degradation of moral beliefs and cause conflict with those with higher morality. Abusive power also results in the manipulation of one’s actions, resulting in the conflict between ideologies. Through the examples outlined in both texts, power has the ability to corrupt however, may also be used to benefit society. Thus, power must be entrusted to the correct people in order to protect societal beliefs and…
Ethics is the broad theme of ISLLC Standard 5. The activities related to this standard provided me with a means to reflect on my personal code of ethics, explore ethics from the perspective of a district official, and to hear others’ perspectives of ethics in the school organization. The first activity allowed me to interview Richard Stiverson, a school board member, regarding his code of ethics. The interview was insightful and did not veer far from what I consider to be ethical. With regard to this activity, I was able to grasp the notion that ethical behavior is paramount to building and maintaining trust in an organization.…
The Canadian Code of Ethics for Psychologist outlines ten steps to assist ethical decision making. The purpose of this paper will be to apply the CPA Code to an ethical dilemma presented in class. In the vignette presented, a school psychologist was seeing a grade 1 boy and became friendly with his father. The psychologist and the father dated for a few months.…
Comparing Codes of Ethics The very nature of the counseling profession places professional counselors in close proximity with people, information, and influence. Due to this, ethical dilemmas can arise throughout the course of this work. To help aid in the protection of counselors, and to provide a framework for ethical practice, ethical codes have been developed and instituted within the profession. As Beuchamp and Childress stated (as cited in Calley, 2009), “in the counseling profession, ethical standards are required to protect clients, guide professional behavior, ensure the autonomy of professionals, increase the status of the profession, enhance the client 's and the community 's trust in the profession, and articulate collegial conduct between professionals,” (p. 476).…
The Fairfax county 's code of ethics is supported by six core principles that honesty, public service, respect, responsibility, stewardship, and trust (Fairfax County). However, ADR office deals with addressing and resolving workplace complaints, where confidentiality, voluntary process, mutual agreements, and impartial third party are major ethical boundaries. I studied about theory of ethical relativism that emphasizes on people 's different standards of evaluating acts as good or bad. These standard beliefs are true in their particular organization or circumstances, and the beliefs are not necessarily example of a basic moral values. It also takes a position that there is no moral right and wrong.…
Belane, Great insight on the Code of Ethics, you stated you would explain touching your face is crossing boundaries. The Code of Ethics has also stated to do no harm, and yes, counselors should be aware of their own values, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. For Traci to touch your face does not seem like sexual or romantic engagement, but a form of communication. When researching for this discussion, I notice a lack of attention on women with disabilities or impairments. I did find a book by Banks and Kaschak (2003) on women with visible and invisible disabilities, the material suggests therapist need to increase sensitivity and conduct research that provides the foundation for developing appropriate therapies.…
Introduction The NAADAC was designed to determine what conduct is and isn’t ethical for today’s addictions counseling professionals. This list of conduct standards is determined by the National Certification Commission and is used when complaints are filed against professionals. The state certification boards and educational institutions also use this list to guide current and future addictions counseling professionals in the certification process. While I am not a certified professional I am aware that I am already exercising, in some form or another, these standards and in this paper I am going to attempt to outline the various ways that I have or am currently exercising the NAADAC Code of Ethics.…
Thomas Hobbes and Niccolo Machiavelli, both grappling with regional instability and constant war, arrive at different frameworks for handling man’s inherent propensity for conflict from very similar models of human behavior. Hobbes, watching his fellow countrymen fight each other during the English Civil War, decided that humans perpetually desire more power to secure their well-being and therefore incline toward warfare as a means to achieve this. Machiavelli, similarly accustomed to the restless Italian Peninsula, also labeled man as power-hungry and self-centered, always striving for enough freedom to ensure one’s prosperity. In the absence of the structure and organization provided by a government, a situation dubbed mankind’s ‘natural…
Ethics codes comparison paper Deanna Baker Class Instructor Date Ethics codes comparison paper Abstract Confidentiality, teaching and training, and community standards Ethics codes comparison paper Introduction A code of ethics is the heart and soul of any business or organization. The standard in which all business and certified activities are measured in the code of ethics of its memberships.…
Introduction: Over the course of human history there have been a number of highly influential philosophers who have helped shape modern political science. Yet, few can claim to have made as large of an impact on political theory as Plato and his seminal work The Republic. The book takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and a variety of different individuals, and touches upon a number of subjects, such as the nature of justice, and debating whether the just or unjust man is happier. Despite having put forward a wide collection of arguments, The Republic, and in many ways Plato himself, has had their philosophical legacy defined by the Allegory of the Cave in Book VII.…
Human nature and politics are inseparable. Raw, overpowering, and mighty, human nature is the dynamic force that drives political discourse. While Sophocles’ Antigone and Thucydides’ On Justice, Power, and Human Nature appear to be simply two independent works of antiquity, both convey timeless teaching on human nature. These interconnected lessons are relevant in modern political leadership and serve as a guide for moderation, justice, and engagement.…
Indeed, it is neither philosophy and the seeking of an ideal nor politics and the pursuit of practicality that bring about the less perfect regimes of oligarchy, timocracy, democracy, and tyranny – rather, it is human nature and the need to form factions. “‘ Once faction had arisen,’ I said, ‘each of these two races, the iron and bronze, pulled the regime toward money-making and the possession of land, houses, gold, and silver’” (547b). Here, the very first movement away from the ideal regime is the procuring of private property, the fulfillment of the erotic impulse. Philosophy and politics are not opposed to one another, but rather share a common enemy – the erotic…
A Personal Code of Ethics “The Medium is the Message” Marshall McLuhan, professor, philosopher, and the grandfather of media theory, once uttered the now famous phrase, “The medium is the message.” This of course is in reference to how the medium in which a creator disperses content is considered just as important as the created content itself. During the first televised debates between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, the public’s reaction alternated wildly depending on whether they watched on television, the Yellow journalism wouldn’t have thrived as it did without printed journalism, and Orson Welles production of the War of the Worlds would not have been as spectacular as it was if her hadn’t used the medium of the radio.…