Communicating ethically: character, duties, consequences, and relationships

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: Theories and Perspectives -- 1 Introduction to Communication Ethics -- Overview -- Key Ideas -- Everyday Ethical Decisions -- Approaches to Reasoning about Communication Ethics -- Character -- Duties -- Consequences -- Relationships -- Definitions -- The Supposed "Inconvenience" of Ethics -- Facing Real Life -- The Scope of Communication Ethics -- Questions and Topics for Discussion -- Notes -- 2 Character and Virtue Ethics -- Overview -- Key Ideas -- The Concept of Character and the Virtues -- Background of Virtue Ethics -- The Art of Persuasion and Ethics -- The Charge against the Art of Persuasion -- Aristotle: The Foundation for Communication Theory and Ethics -- Roman Developments in the Rhetorical and Ethical Tradition -- Contemporary Virtue Ethics -- Ethics of Care -- Martha Nussbaum's Ethic of Human Capabilities -- Implications for Communication Ethics -- Example of Courage as a Virtue in Ethical Communication -- Case Study: Money and Friendship -- Questions for Analysis of the Case -- Chapter Summary -- Questions and Topics for Discussion -- Notes -- 3 Duties -- Overview -- Key Ideas -- Is Lying Always Wrong? -- Kant's System of Deontological Ethics -- The Basis for Kant's Universalism: The Categorical Imperative -- The Second Formulation of the Categorical Imperative: Human Dignity -- Other Universal Ethics of Communication -- Divine Command -- Human Nature -- Implications for Communication Ethics -- Summary of Grounds for Universal Systems of Ethics -- Alternatives to Universal Systems -- Situational Ethics -- Cultural Relativism -- Implications of Cultural Relativism for Communication Ethics -- Ethical Relativism -- Summary of Alternatives to Universal Ethics -- Modern Trends: Jürgen Habermas and Discourse Ethics.