Interpersonal Communication Ethics: The Relationship Matters

The book has talked a lot about various types of communication. The difference in interpersonal communication, as seen by the authors, is that interpersonal communications concentrates on the relationships between people. This chapter connects the study of interpersonal ethics to communicative practices with attention to the following three metaphors of communication ethics praxis: Interpersonal communication— … Continue reading Interpersonal Communication Ethics: The Relationship Matters →

Public Discourse Ethics: Public and Private Accountability

Okay, we are up to Chapter 6 now, and seem to be hitting a topic that might, just might, have application to the current political season that has started oh so early for the 2016 presidential race. Public discourse ethics protects and promotes a place of conversation for diversity of ideas and persons. Public discourse … Continue reading Public Discourse Ethics: Public and Private Accountability →

Large Tomes and Large Introductions

The main textbook for my Communication Ethics class is a 400+-page book with small print titled "Organizational Ethics: A Practical Approach" by Craig E. Johnson. And those 400 pages doesn't include the 30+ pages of brief contents, contents, and introduction. In the introduction I ran across this choice sentence:  "We all pay a high price … Continue reading Large Tomes and Large Introductions →

Communications Ethics: In the Eye(s) of the Theory of the Beholder

Common sense is seen primarily in the judgments about right and wrong, proper and improper, that it makes. Whoever has a sound judgment is not thereby enabled to judge particulars under universal viewpoints, but he knows what is important, i.e. he sees things from right and sound points of view. (Gadamer, 1986, p. 31) Arnett, … Continue reading Communications Ethics: In the Eye(s) of the Theory of the Beholder →

Approaches to Communication Ethics: The Pragmatic Good of Theory

Okay, We are in post #4, chapter #3 of Communication Ethics Literacy: Dialogue and Difference. It seems the authors like using "metaphors of communication ethics praxis" although I am not sure if they really understand what a metaphor means. This chapter they decided to use SIX metaphors: Democratic communication ethics Universal-humanitarian ethics Codes, procedures, and … Continue reading Approaches to Communication Ethics: The Pragmatic Good of Theory →

Defining Communication Ethics

The operative word for defining communication ethics appears to be "ought". This chapter shows positions that "promote and protect  a good that one "ought" to practice within a particular communication ethic. This chapter has studies four metaphors of communication ethics praxis: Multiplicity of Communication Ethics Philosophy of Communication Applied Communication Narrative For point one, while … Continue reading Defining Communication Ethics →

The Pragmatic Necessity of Communication Ethics

Chapter One, after the long, detailed preface, opens with what I shall call a thesis statement: We begin with a simple assumption: We cannot assume that any given person— not even a neighbor— protects and promotes the same goods as we do. The clashing of goods or views of what should be “ethical” defines our … Continue reading The Pragmatic Necessity of Communication Ethics →

Communication Ethics: a lengthy, belabored prologue

You know the book is going to be labored when it has four headlined sections in the preface. You could never get away with that in a fiction book (well, perhaps I shouldn't say that, but it would have to support something really special), but in my most recent text book that is exactly what … Continue reading Communication Ethics: a lengthy, belabored prologue →