In a 4 to 5 page double-spaced APA-formatted paper, thoroughly examine each of the following questions/topics (be sure to properly cite and reference your sources whether from your textbooks, supplemental sources, or other research):
- Define ethics and morals. Identify and describe the differences and similarities between ethics and morals.
- Conduct a self-assessment concerning your ethical development and ethical identity. Explain in reasonable detail where you are and how you come to making ethical decisions.
- Critically assess Festinger’s social comparison theory and how his theory is appropriate to ethical decision-making.
- Identify and critically assess, “2 rules that govern” your behavior. What aspects of the 2 rules provide you with a compass to point you in the right direction? What are the strengths and limitations of your rules?
- Select and describe your favorite philosophical school. Describe why you selected this philosophical school and explain how that school’s school of thought shapes your ethical decision-making model (i.e. Kantian, Utilitarian, Socratic, Aristotelian, Critical Social Theory, Post-modern etc.).
