My Personal Code of Ethics
HU4640 ETHICS

My personal values act as a basis for distinguishing between right and wrong and thus, determine my daily actions and emotions. My father and education have played profound roles in the development of my core personal values: personal integrity, excellence, responsibility, family and ambition. Additionally, these influences have demonstrated certain rule-based, ends-based, and virtue-based approaches to determining what conduct is consistent with these key values.
Through his own actions, my father has taught me to always put my family first, and to evaluate the morality of my potential actions with an ends-based approach by considering the consequences for the rest of my family (Gower, 2008). My father is incredibly compassionate, and his main goal in life is to protect his family and help his children grown into happy, healthy adults. Siding with deontological philosophers and demonstrating a rule-based approach, my father taught me that disrespectful, dishonest, and self-centered actions were morally wrong, regardless of their outcomes (Gower, 2008). He also regularly acted upon her strong sense of duty to help others. His stern belief that “it takes all types to make the world go ‘round” has influenced me to use the rights approach – to consider the rights of individuals, to respect human dignity, and to avoid using people as a means to an end (Velasquez, Andre, Shanks, & Meyer, 1996).
My dad’s insistence upon moving beyond his modest background and aspiring to distinction within his in his profession has inspired my commitment to accomplishment and success, knowledge and higher education, hard-work, excellence and wealth. My dad was one of fourteen children raised on my grandmother in Saint Andrews, Barbados. My dad and his siblings were not expected to go to college, since no one in their family had done so