IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/sprchp/978-3-319-75040-8_4.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Making Ethics Part of Practice: Developing a Code of Ethics

In: Ethics for Social Impact

Author

Listed:
  • Femida Handy

    (University of Pennsylvania)

  • Allison R. Russell

    (University of Pennsylvania)

Abstract

Now that we have discussed several different ethical frameworks, the question arises: How do we integrate these theories into practice? The thinkers’ ideas may seem very abstract, or perhaps like “ideal” cases for living when, in actuality, real life is much messier and more complex. For example, most of our students point out that it is all well and good for Kant to write about the “categorical imperative,” but they are reluctant to apply his logic to real-world dilemmas since this ethical framework results in impractical solutions they feel uncomfortable pursuing. You may feel similarly. How, then, do we make this leap from the very conceptual, idealized world of ethical theory to the very real, difficult situations that we face in our work as nonprofit students and practitioners?

Suggested Citation

  • Femida Handy & Allison R. Russell, 2018. "Making Ethics Part of Practice: Developing a Code of Ethics," Springer Books, in: Ethics for Social Impact, chapter 0, pages 63-87, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-319-75040-8_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-75040-8_4
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a
    for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-319-75040-8_4. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.