Week 8 Discussion: Personal Ethics Statement. Response to a Situation

Week 8 Discussion: Personal Ethics Statement
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Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:
Textbook: Review all chapters
Lesson
Minimum of 1 scholarly source
Optional Resources
The following resources may be useful but are not required for this activity:
Link (website): Ring of Gyges (Links to an external site.) (for those who wish to read the whole story)
Dilemma
One of the great examples of ethics and morals in all of literature comes from Plato who wrote about the Ring of Gyges in The Republic, Book II, starting at paragraph 359a.
The story goes that Gyges was a shepherd in the service of the King. In a most unusual circumstance he came upon a dead man, removed the man's ring, and discovered that it made him invisible. He conspired to take the periodic report of the shepherds to the King - once there he seduced the Queen and eventually took control of the Kingdom by conspiring with the Queen. Plato continues the story:
Suppose now that there were two such magic rings, and the just put on one of them and the unjust the other; no man can be imagined to be of such an iron nature that he would stand fast in justice. No man would keep his hands off what was not his own when he could safely take what he liked out of the market, or go into houses and lie with any one at his pleasure, or kill or release from prison whom he would, and in all respects be like a God among men. Then the actions of the just would be as the actions of the unjust; they would both come at last to the same point. And this we may truly affirm to be a great proof that a man is just, not willingly or because he thinks that justice is any good to him individually, but of necessity, for wherever any one thinks that he can safely be unjust, there he is unjust. For all men believe in their hearts that injustice is far more profitable to the individual than justice, and he who argues as I have been supposing, will say that they are right.
Post Instructions
For this discussion, address the following:
Create a personal ethical philosophy and explain from which philosophies you created it and why the contents are important and meaningful for you. List its precepts.
Take your personal ethical philosophy statement and use it to work through the famous case of the Ring of Gyges. This story raises the question of what sanctions prevent people from just taking any liberties they are inclined to take. The whole subject of ethics, seen in large scale, is that of accepting and living under moral standards.
What would you do if you had that second ring?
What else within this course helps in responding to this fictitious situation or in explaining it?
Writing Requirements
Minimum of 1 posts
Minimum of 2 sources cited (assigned readings/online lessons and an outside source)
APA format for in-text citations and list of references
Grading
This activity will be graded using the Discussion Grading Rubric. Please review the following link:
Link (webpage): Discussion Guidelines
Weekly Objectives (WO)
WO8, 2.10, 7.2
Due Date By 11:59 p.m. MT on Wednesday
the following is a message written by our instructor.
Dear Class,
Congratulations on arriving at your final discussion for the course! We are closing out the course with a fun yet important task: develop a personal ethics statement. Not only will you develop your statement, you will then apply it to an age-old moral dilemma. While you are certainly free to move forward however you deem most appropriate, I would encourage you that there is likely no good reason to reinvent the wheel. We have looked at a variety of ethical frameworks that brilliant philosophers have formulated through the ages. Which one do you most closely align yourself with? Would you make any changes to it? If so, why? I'm most certainly looking forward to seeing your personal statements and subsequently the results of all of your hard work this term! As always, remember to make your initial post by Wednesday and your follow-up posts by Sunday. Please let me know if you have any last minute questions.
Thank you,
i will give u id and password for further review of the chapters once the writer is assigned.