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Reader 5 review - Task 5c

We were asked to review reader 5 for our next task. Within the reader it looks at the development and history of ethics and codes of practice and how we can use them for our inquiry.

Ethics have 3 main contexts:
Personal (family/religion)
Professional (specific to your work)
Organizational (based on Ethos)

After researching ethics in my place of work I can see how these contexts fit in, and also how I have been following them without really realising. 

The reader then looks at the history of ethics and evolution of them. Dating all the way back to Ancient greeks and philosophers. These root from moral philosophy. By the 13th century Aquinas adopted natural law and this started to look at how law and religion is linked to ethics and morals. 
From there they went onto look at the characters of people, looking at their virtues. 
In the reader a task was set to write down your virtues and the virtues in the work place including the two extremes of this. As I did this I was very surprised at the out come. A lot (if not all) of my personal virtues were linked or the same as my work virtues. Now I am contemplating if my work virtues have caused me to have some of my personal virtues, or vica versa. 

Based on the history of ethics, we can now use the different strands as frameworks to evaluate issues that may arrive. 
Below is an image I found looking at different types of strand and how they work:

Looking at ethics in recent years, we have learnt and discovered that ultimately ethics are not always black and white. Most of the time there is a grey area to consider. Also different cultures will have different morals and ethics, which could stem from things like religion. Occasionally these cultural differences can lead to tension and conflict. Also over time acceptances are changing for a variety of things for example homosexuality. So time really can make a difference in society ethics. 

With this in mind, as my professional inquiry is looking at community dance through over the years, this concept would be great to look further into, seeing how the ethics changing has affected community dance. 

I found this reader to be thoroughly helpful and has opened up my eyes to more ways of looking at my inquiry.

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