Assignment:
Assignments are designed for you to show your understanding of the unit materials. Make references to lesson materials, researched material, and Seminars as needed, You should follow APA format. Compose your responses using Standard American English as described in the APA guidelines available at Kaplan University Writing Center. Please identify all papers and files using the format stated in the syllabus.
It must be 300- 350 words, strictly on topic, original, and well detailed contributions to the quality of the discussion by making atleast frequent 1-2 informed scholar references.
NO PHARGIARISM! Please thoroughly read and follow all instructions
Writing Center Resources &References on How to Cite
The KU Writing Center’s main page that houses APA materials is the Research, Citation, and Plagiarism page in the Writing Reference Library. Here is the URL for that main page:
https://kucampus.kaplan.edu/MyStudies/AcademicSupportCenter/WritingCenter/WritingReferenceLibrar/ResearchCitationAndPlagiarism/Index.aspx
On the right side of that page, there is a list of videos; the last two are APA tutorials:
https://www.screencast.com/t/1w4ccUBc4fUJ Part I runs 14 minutes,
https://www.screencast.com/t/WsQppN7b49Jx Part 2 runs 17 minutes
Here is a great APA Common Citations resource that was updated recently:
https://kucampus.kaplan.edu/MyStudies/AcademicSupportCenter/WritingCenter/WritingReferenceLibrary/ResearchCitationAndPlagiarism/CommonCitationsInAPAformat.aspx
Here is a longer, more detailed resource that addresses plagiarism directly: https://kucampus.kaplan.edu/MyStudies/AcademicSupportCenter/WritingCenter/WritingReferenceLibrary/ResearchCitationAndPlagiarism/BasicCitationGuidelines.aspx
Global Theorist
You are off to a great start in this discussion. I wanted to do a brief post of the Global Theorist that we will talk about in this discussion and future discussions. This is a good list to keep handy.
a. St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
b. Family didn’t support church calling (held captive)
c. Theory based on God being “perfectly rational”
d. Humans have “capacity” to choose good (free will)
e. Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804)
f. King accused him of “corrupting youth”
g. Created deontology (duty-based ethics)
i. Created Categorical Imperative “test”
j. John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)
k. Intelligent child and strict upbringing
l. One of most influential theorists on American Ethics
m. Good if it produces utility
n. “Needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one”
o.John Rawls (1921 – 2002)
p. Witnessed aftermath of Hiroshima bombing (modern)
q. Defining the moral and just society
r. Providing based on greater need at time
Lacey Morrison, E. (2006). Ethics in health administration: A practical approach for decision makers. Sudbury, Mass.: Jones and Bartlett.
Personal Theorists
There are four Personal Theorists that make up the second half of the "Big 8". Here is a small summary of each.
a. Aristotle (384 – 322 BCE)
b. Studied under Plato – father was a king’s physician
c. People achieve highest level of goodness
d. Based on choices and actions, not words
e. Martin Buber (1878 – 1965)
f. German – tried to help Jews in WWI
g. Relationship hierarch – “I-THOU” – love of all
h. Patients assume the “I-THOU” relationship with healthcare
i. Lawrence Kohlberg (1927 – 1987)
j. Helped smuggle Jewish people in WWII.
k. Ethical development through Levels I - VI
l. Estimated that only 25% of people reach Level VI
m. Viktor Frankl (1905 – 1997)
n. Wise beyond years – corresponded with Freud in HS
o. Unique person – mind, body and spirit
p.Develop “purpose” – purpose to create actions
Lacey FinleyMorrison, E. (2006). Ethics in health administration: A practical approach for decision makers. Sudbury, Mass.: Jones and Bartlett.