Bases for Values and Principles
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Author: [Stephen Downes --- ]
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, , Nov 08, 2021.
What grounds these codes of ethics? On what basis do their authors assert that this code of ethics, as opposed to some hypothetical alternative, is the code of ethics to follow? A typical explanation might be that "An individual's professional obligations are derived from the profession and its code, tradition, society's expectations, contracts, laws, and rules of ordinary morality" (Weil, 2008), but a closer examination raises as many questions as it answers.
