Himanities

Values and Ethics Reflection Paper

Joshua Hobbs

HUMN 330

Personal ethics is often muddled up when attempting to describe one’s self. It is hard to describe who you are ethically because you often don’t realize your ethical viewpoint until challenged with a moral dilemma. With the knowledge gained from this class I feel I am able to describe who I am ethically without confusing it with personality traits that don’t apply to the subject. I consider myself a realist, someone that despite the expected emotional reaction to an event are able to move forward and continue on with life, overcoming the issue and not looking back in order to move ahead. From the outside, this will look like a cold and dim outlook on life and could be confused for unethical behavior. It is really quit the opposite. I believe myself to be morally and ethically sound because I have taken from various ethical theories and created a standard for myself that seems to outweigh them all. I hold myself accountable for action and always attempt to review my decision in order to alter or reconfirm my choice in case I am faced with a similar situation. My morality is not subject to one theory and therefore I am able to not only evolve with the changing times but am able to find myself comfortably incorporated in various social structures.

My morality begins with Human Rights. This works as a foundation to my moral structure. I believe in a set of basic rights given to every human for being alive. Humans are an evolved specie and should be respected for their possible contribution to the society. Skin color and Sex hold no bearing on these rights and are not used as an excuse to falter from the expectation. I begin to build the walls of my moral structure with 4 major ethical theories and allow them to merge into one another seamlessly. They are, a natural distinction between right and wrong, a strong belief in societal expectations and improvement, moral expectations found within intelligent...