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Ethical Terms

  Ethical Terms Conflict of Interest- Arises when official duty, public interest and personal intrest  get into conflict.  It hampers the integrity and impartiality of an individual.  Emotional Intelligence-  Ability to  recognize, understand and manage  our own emotions as well as other's emotions.  Five elements of EI(Daniel Goleman)  Self awareness Self regulation Motivation Empathy Social skills Belief-  A belief is an idea that a person holds as being true. A person can base a belief upon principles and matters of faith. Sources of belief- Person’s own experiences or experiments Cultural and societal norms Guidance by others Evaluation and  sound reasoning is a way to challenge beliefs. Value-  Stable long-lasting beliefs about what is important to a person. Values define standard of life and one's choices. With strong commitment towards a belief, that belief get transformed into a value.  Belief vs Faith- Believe is strongly held confidence or opinion. While faith is st

Types of Ethics

  Ethics Ethics is a branch of philosophy that deals with systematic study of human action in terms of right and wrong action.  Ethics are those values which help to judge an action as right or wrong.  Types of Ethics There are four types of Ethics: 1. Meta-Ethics: origin of ethics, definition of ethics, definition of right and wrong.  2. Prescriptive(Normative) Ethics:  judging the action/result as right or wrong based on ethical values.  The action/result can be judged in three ways (a) Deontological- not only end result but action must also be right.  Categorical Imperative is subset of deontological ethics given by Immanuel Kant. Occasionally it is described as synonymous to deontological ethics. It is based on Universality and Principle of reciprocity.  (b) Teleological/Consequential/Utilitarian-  the outcome/consequences should be right independent of means/action. So it emphasis on result not on action, action can be right or wrong.  (c) Virtuous-  if action is abided by virt