COM CO 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Intrapersonal Communication, Sergei Eisenstein, Communication Source

• School: Boston University
• Department: Core Courses
• Course: COM CO 101
• Professor: Tammy Vigil

Document Summary

Depends entirely on the actions/assumptions of individuals. Someone is to blame: are they responsible for the action, are they responsible to others, moral reasoning behind the decision. Def: division of philosophy that deals with the question of moral behavior. Depend on the process & the person making the decision. People must assume they"re working for someone who wants to be told the truth o truth should be respected communication cannot be effective w/o ethical & social responsibility. Ethical decisions require 3 qualities: o competence to recognize ethical issues self-confidence to seek out different views o: willingness to make decisions. Studying it can provide tools that help make difficult moral choices: need to recognise problems when they arise. 3 subareas of ethics: meta-ethics: attempts to assign meanings to moral philosophy, normative ethics: general rules, applied ethics: using these norms to solve real-world problems.