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Ethics and Decision Making in Education

January 24th, 2012

If the ethical decision-making consequensalism in education is often applied to the types of guides to the theory of action based on relativism. Philosophers and ethicists teleogy the term, the Greek word telos, meaning end (Beckner 2004). Consequentialism, the term was used to (1) a theory of liability, but is now generally (2) a theory of right and wrong uses. (1) of the opinion that the agent is also responsible for the consequences of any act intended and unintended consequences, but expected (Anscombe 1958).

Ethical theories that under the classification of consequentialism that the rightness or wrongness of an action must fall in order to represent the consequences of the action shall be taken into consideration. In other words, the consequences are usually to the extent that they serve some good considered intrinsic. The most common form of consequentialism is utilitarianism (consequentialism, social), which, it was necessary in such a way as to produce the greatest happiness of the greatest number of law does. Consequentialism is the name given to the ethical theories that have the moral right, wrong, and the need to focus exclusively on the value of the consequences (impact, outcomes), what do we argue hang. Ethical egoism states that the moral right, wrong, and the obligation depends only on the value of the consequences for the agent (Brandt, 1959).
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