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    Professional

    Practices
    (Lecture 5)
    Prepared by:
    Madeeha Fatima

    1
    2

    Todays Lecture
     Professional Ethics
     Definition
     Types
     Difference between Morality & Law
     Standards
     Rules& Consequences
     Sources of moral authority
    3

    Definition
     “Ethicsis the study of right and wrong in
    relation to human actions”
    4

    Types
     Meta Ethics
    Study of the general principles from which
    ethical systems can be built.
     Moral theory
    the ethical systems themselves, consisting of the
    criteria and procedures that can be applied to
    decide whether individual actions are right or
    wrong.
     Practical or Applied Ethics
    the application of ethical systems to the analysis
    of particular situations, including such
    specialized areas as business ethics and
    medical ethics.
    5

    Difference between morality


    and law
    Not everything that is wrong needs to be
    made illegal, nor is everything that is illegal
    necessarily immoral.
    6

    Rules & Consequences


     Bad actions can be avoided and good
    actions ensured simply by following a set
    of rules.
     E.g.
    “Do as you would be done by is the surest
    method that I know of pleasing”
    Problem:
    7

    Rules & Consequences (cont.)


     An alternative to a rule-based morality is
    consequentialism
     Consequentialists believe that general rules
    are not specific enough to guide actions and
    that the primary factor in judging an action
    must be its consequences.
     This means, of course, that we must have
    some mechanism for deciding whether the
    consequences are good or bad.
    8

    Rules & Consequences (cont.)


    “Our behavior is governed by rules”
     Rules types:
     Come from our own moral convictions,
    which may derive from the
     culture
     religious
    9

    Sources of morality
     Individuals
    who by reflection and self-analysis develops a
    set of rules
     Groups
    Moral authority located in larger units—the
    organization or society, the body politic or the
    profession.
     Collective
    It reflects a consensus among the members of
    that unit
     Authoritarian
    With a leader or a small group of leaders.
    10

    Absolutism v relativism theory


    related to sources of morality
    Ethics and moral laws are according to
     Absolutism:
    are the same at all times, in all places, and
    in all societies
     Relativism:
    depend on time, place and circumstances.
    Basically avoid to attitudes:
     intolerance (desire to impose all aspects of
    one’s own morality on everyone)
     Chauvinism (refusing to accept that any
    beliefs other than one’s own can be valid)
    11

    Reference
     Chapter1 (topic 1.6) Professional Issues in
    Software Engineering, M.F. Bott et al.
    12

    Next Lecture
     Professional code of conduct

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