ETHICS 101
A COMMON ETHICS LANGUAGE
FOR DIALOGUE
Compiled by the Ethics
Across the Curricula Committee

DePaul University
Institute for Business & Professional Ethics
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ETHICS 101
A COMMON ETHICS LANGUAGE
FOR DIALOGUE
Compiled by the Ethics
Across the Curricula Committee

©2007 IBPE. All Rights Reserved

Chaired by Patricia Werhane, Director, Institute for Business & Professional
Ethics, DePaul University. A subcommittee of the Ethics Across the Curricula
Committee created this document. The members include: Andrew Gold,
Professor, College of Law; Laura Hartman, AVP & Professor of Business
Ethics, Department of Management; Karyn Holm, Professor, Department of Nursing; Scott Paeth, Asst. Professor, Religious Studies Department;
Charles Strain, Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs; Marco Tavanti,
Asst. Professor, Public Services Graduate Program; David Wellman, Asst.
Professor, Religious Studies Department. This guide draws from various resources prepared by others including copyrighted materials reprinted with the permission of the Markkula Center for a Applied Ethics at Santa
Clara University (www.scu.edu/ethics), from Larry Hinman, Ethics: A
Pluralistic Approach to Moral Theory, 3rd edition (Belmont CA: Thomson
Learning, 2003), from Marco Tavanti, “Thinking Ethically” (unpublished),
David Ozar, “A Model for Ethical Decision-Making.” (unpublished).

Ethics Across
The Curricula At Depaul
A Common Ethics Language For Dialogue

As part of DePaul’s VISION twenty12, in particular Objective
1e: “Provide opportunities for all students to learn ethical systems and demonstrate ethical practice,” and in response to the ever-increasing demand for more ethical behavior on the part of business, the professions, in politics, and in