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An 8 page overview of the philosophic process as it applies to such aspects of our daily lives as sports, ethics, and social responsibility. Defines the philosophic process as a quest for knowledge and ethical and moral justification in the choices we make in life. The author contends that it is a process which is, in fact, applicable to ever aspect of our lives. In sports, for example, we seek fitness, knowledge, the enhancement of motor skills, and even pleasure. In our jobs we seek competency and professionality. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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process entails a quest for knowledge and ethical and moral justification in the choices we make in life. It is a process which is, in fact, applicable to ever
aspect of our lives. In sports, for example, we seek fitness, knowledge, the enhancement of motor skills, and even pleasure. In our jobs we seek competency and professionality.
Indeed, ever aspect of our lives is relevant to the philosophic process. The philosophic process is particularly applicable to professionals.
Our ethical liability as professionals revolve around two simple concepts, that of right and that of wrong. Dougherty (1996, PG) clarifies:
"The term [profession] traditionally was assigned to those callings in which one professes to have acquired some special, useful knowledge and secondarily
to those arts or services dependent upon such knowledge. In antiquity, this ruled out purely commercial, mechanical, agricultural, or other similar occupations. Three time-honored professions--theology, law, and medicine--were accorded the
designation learned". Today, that time-honored professional trilogy of medicine, law, and theology has been expanded
tremendously, however. Now there are professionals in practically every field and as professionals they must abide by certain ethics and morals. Unlike medicine and law and some of
the other time-honored professions, however, there are often no hard and fast codes of professional ethics for these new professional arenas. This code, like the profession itself and the
responsibilities of that profession, is still evolving. Despite the absence of a specific code of ethics such as that which exists for medicine, law and some other professions, there
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