Ethical Reasoning — Robert J. Sternberg | 合法醫療器材資訊網

Ihaveproposedaneight-stepmodelofethicalreasoningthatsuggeststhe...thattheethicaldimensionisofsufficientsignificancetomeritanethics-guided ...

Ethical Reasoning

When leaders fail, it is usually not because of a lack of IQ, but more often, because of a lack of ethics.  There are many smart leaders who could be successful were they to take ethical responsibilities more seriously. 

We tend to think that the easy thing is to act ethically and that the hard thing is to act unethically, because unethical action must entail an extra step—that is, we come up with the ethical solution in response to a situation and then we think about how we might depart from that solution.  I have proposed an eight-step model of ethical reasoning that suggests the opposite is true—that it is difficult to act ethically because there are at least eight steps involved in ethical reasoning and if any one of them is omitted, the chances are that one will act unethically.  The eight steps are:

1.  ...