Practicing Communication Ethics: Development, Discernment, and Decision-Making

by Tompkins; Paula S.

• ISBN13: 9780205453603
• ISBN10: 0205453600
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-14
• Publisher: Routledge

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Table of Contents

Preface	p. vi
Communication Ethics and Our Historical Moment	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Developing a Practice of Communication Ethics	p. 1
The Centrality of Ethics in Human Communication	p. 3
Communication Matters	p. 7
Developing a Practice of Ethical Communication	p. 13
Developing a Personal Ethical Standard for Human Communication	p. 19
A Personal Ethical Standard for Human Communication	p. 20
Acquiring Ethical Values and Principles	p. 20
Developing a Personal Ethical Standard	p. 25
Family	p. 26
Peers	p. 28
Culture	p. 28
Religion and Spirituality	p. 29
The Marketplace	p. 30
Popular Culture	p. 31
Evaluating Your Personal Ethical Standard	p. 34
Logical Analysis	p. 34
Testing by Experience	p. 36
Expressing your Personal Ethical Standard as a Code or Credo	p. 38
Ethical Reasoning About Human Communication	p. 46
Steps in Ethical Reasoning	p. 47
Recognizing an Ethical Issue	p. 47
Get the Facts about the Situation	p. 51
Think About Alternative Ethical Responses	p. 53
Evaluate Alternatives from Different Points of View	p. 55
The Everyday Practice of Ethics	p. 56
Ethical Theories	p. 57
Act, Then Reflect on Your Decision	p. 60
Practicing Ethical Reasoning in Human Communication	p. 60
Ethical Decision Points of Communication	p. 60
"Should I speak orà?	p. 60
"If I speak, what should I say?"	p. 61
"When I communicate, How should I communicate?"	p. 61
Communicating Your Ethical Reasoning to Others	p. 61
Five Ethical Values of Human Communication	p. 68
Truth and Truthfulness	p. 69
Justice	p. 74
Freedom	p. 80
Care	p. 83
Integrity	p. 84
Your Personal Ethical Standard	p. 87
Applying Values and Principles in Ethical Reasoning	p. 95
Absolutism as an Ethical Imperative	p. 96
The Many Faces of Relativism	p. 99
Casuistry: Balancing Principles with Responsiveness	p. 103
Applying Ethical Theories to Human Communication	p. 115
Traditional Approaches to Ethical Theory	p. 117
Virtue Ethics	p. 118
Moral Rightsv121
Kant and Moral Rights	p. 123
Moral Rights of Communication	p. 124
Utilitarianism	p. 126
Contemporary Alternatives to Modernist Ethical Theories	p. 136
Modernist Thinking	p. 137
Postmodernism	p. 140
Decentered Self	p. 140
Postmodern Truth as Justified Truth	p. 142
Post-modern Power	p. 144
Dialogue	p. 149
Ethical Care	p. 156
Three Contexts of Ethical Communication Practice	p. 171
Communication Ethics and Community	p. 173
Dialectical Tensions of Community	p. 174
The Dialectical Tension of Similarity and Difference	p. 175
The Dialectical Tension between the Individual and Community	p. 179
Managing Dialectical Tensions of Community in the U.S.	p. 182
"Friendship" as a Metaphor for Community	p. 183
"Citizenship" as a Metaphor for Community	p. 185
Communication Ethics and Intercultural Communication	p. 195
Dialectical Tensions of Interculrual Communication	p. 197
Ethical Issues and Challenges of Intercultural Communication	p. 198
Negotiating Cultural Identity	p. 198
Absolutism and Relativism in Intercultural Communication	p. 204
Communication Ethics and Digital Communication	p. 216
Qualities of Digital Communication	p. 217
Issues of Freedom in Digital Communication	p. 224
Issues of Truth in Digital Communication	p. 230
References	p. 237
Index	p. 247
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