PP247 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6-2: Ingroups And Outgroups, Fifa Disciplinary Code
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The quest for a code of professional ethics: an intellectual and moral confusion. Ethics itself is basically an open-ended, reflective and critical intellectual activity. Ethics is essentially problematic and controversial, both as far as its principles are concerned and in its application. Ethics principles can only be established as a result of deliberation and argumentation. Cannot be established by associations, organizations, or by consensus by their members. By trying to codify and impose ethics, you contradict the notion of ethics itself, which presumes that persons are autonomous moral agents. Such an attempt would make ethics heteronomous; it confuses ethics with some kind of externally imposed set of rules such as a code of law. Ethic s must be self-directed rather than other-directed. In attaching disciplinary procedures, methods of adjudication and sanctions, formal and informal, to the principles that one calls ethical, one automatically converts them into legal rules or some other kind of authoritative rules of conduct.
