A Decision Framework for the Officer in the Room
Theory is what you read beforehand. This is what you use at eleven in the morning when a decision cannot wait and every option is imperfect.
Category: Ethics in Human Actions
Chapter 3 — the ethical theories, and how they apply to personal, professional and public action.
The Three Spheres: Personal, Professional and Public Action
The same person owes different things to a child, a client and a citizen. Confusing the three is where a great many ethical failures begin.
Gandhian and Existentialist Ethics: Means, Ends and Responsibility
Two traditions insist that how you act matters as much as what you achieve. One is Indian, one is European, and together they answer most questions about means and ends.
Care, Contract, Relativism and Absolutism: The Second Set of Theories
Beyond the famous three lies a second set of theories, and they are where the interesting questions in this paper increasingly come from.
Three Ways to Judge an Action: Duty, Consequence, Character
Almost every case study in this paper can be argued three ways. Knowing which three is the difference between an opinion and an answer.