Personal insights from the Ethical Lens Inventory assessment

Ethics Lens Inventory

Personal ethics

Without personal ethics, it will be utterly impossible to understand where morals like integrity, honesty and discipline occupy in your life and hence lack of guided direction in one's life when it comes to social morals (FAO, 2004).

In order to have a balanced life and society, I adopt a personally repapered lens of Rights-Responsibility and results. One needs to balance the reasoning capability or rationality and the internal intuition or intuition, this balance consequently guides toward achieving objectives which will give the greatest good for each person.

The blind spot that comes with this for me is that the motive behind an action justifies the means toward achieving the objective. This at times leads to ignoring the reprimands from those around me and failure to be accountable to those who are around me. It inculcates the sticking to personal intuition and actions regardless of the suffering of the other.

My strengths I count as the self-knowledge and free will that I posses. This enables me to balance responsibility with entrepreneurship within the community for a better society. The autonomy created by the self-knowledge fosters my self-reliance attitude and accountability for what I do, and in the same breath I expect same level of accountability from others. My weakness sprouts from my blind spot since even if it were for the good of someone and I do not find appropriate motive compelling me to act, then I would obey my autonomous decision and course of action.

My core values rotate around autonomy and sensibility even when it seems all other actions are not in tandem with what I perceive as rational. I protect my individual rights as long as my actions are at the highest threshold of rationality. If each person gave up on their autonomy, there would be no fairness in the society. There is need to balance rationality and sensibility therefore since every situation is unique to itself hence even in the face of universal principles, personal autonomy should not be grossly compromised.

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Individual reasoning are as diverse as the people themselves hence there is need to have an identification of the reasoning trends for each person one engages in. However, of more importance however is the understanding one's own reasoning trend and reasoning skills that will help one fully understand how to undertake the academic duties that involve research work and presentations.

Learning one's own reasoning skills will allow the individual to know the areas where they are strongest at in terms of expressing views and critiquing concepts. In this manner, the person will be able to select the appropriate topics or areas of research that suits their capability to extract maximum useful information. Knowing ones reasoning skills will also allow the individual react to the challenges that may crop up during a presentation in the most appropriate manner possible. Without the knowledge of your reasoning skills, it would be impossible to react to challenges as concretely as needed since the understanding allow you to choose the approach to give to a challenge in a presentation.