Loading ...Ethical development programming will fail if it is not grounded in a broad community consensus. At secular institutions, that consensus is most likely to be based on what is called “minimalist” ethical standards.
Honesty: Each person carries out his or her responsibilities carefully and with integrity, never claming credit for someone else’s work and being willing to acknowledge wrongdoing.
Respect: Each person responds sensitively to the ideas and needs of others without dismissing or degrading them.
Responsibility: Each person has a sense of duty to fulfill willingly the tasks he or she has accepted or been assigned.
Compassion: Each person in considerate and caring. There is recognition that everyone, from time to time, feels hurt, confused, angry, or sad. Instead of ignoring such conditions, people reach out to one another.
Self – discipline: Each person agrees to live within limits. At the simplest level, selfcontrol reflects habits of good living.
Perseverance: Each person is diligent, with the inner strength and determination to pursue well-defined goals.
Giving: Each person discovers that one of life’s greatest satisfactions comes from giving to others, and recognizes that talents should be shared, through service.
We are learning the fundamental principle that ethics is everything. Human social existence is based on the genetic propensity to form long – term contract that are evolved by culture and moral precepts and law. We are not errant children who occasionally sin by disobeying instruction from outside our species. We are adults who have discovered which covenants are necessary for survival and we have accepted the necessity of securing then by sacred oath.
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