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Chapter 2Ethics and Public Speaking
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Introduction• Public speaking should ideally be governed by a strong sense
of integrity• Quintilian: “The ideal of speechmaking is the good person
speaking well.”
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Importance of Ethics• Asks us to consider if a given action is moral or immoral, fair
or unfair, just or unjust, honest or dishonest
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Capital Punishment
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Importance of Ethics• Plato: In an ideal world, all speakers in a public forum would
be “truthful and devoted to the good of society.”
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Guidelines for Ethical Speaking• Personal ethical frameworks
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Implications for Speaking• Don’t overestimate how closely your “frameworks” match
• Rhetorical strategies for communicating ethics
• Be mindful of how you evaluate appeals to ethics
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Guidelines for Ethical Speaking• Preparation!• Ethical obligation against providing erroneous information or
misleading advice• Seek out opposing viewpoints
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Guidelines for Ethical Speaking• Honesty• White lie vs. “blatant contempt for the truth”• Outright lying vs. “less damaging yet still unethical behavior”• Avoid name-calling and other abusive language
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Guidelines for Ethical Speaking• Name-calling and personal dignity• Dehumanization• Not just about being “PC”• Links to stereotypes• Destructive social force
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On Stereotypes…
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On Stereotypes…
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Guidelines for Ethical Speaking• Name-calling and free speech• Prevents free-flow of ideas• Promotes ad hominem arguments
• Strategic vs. ethical decisions
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Plagiarism• From the latin “kidnapper”• “to plagiarize means to present another person’s language or
ideas as your own - to give the impression you have written or thought something yourself when you have actually taken it from someone else.”
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Types of Plagiarism• Global plagiarism• Patchwork plagiarism• Incremental plagiarism• Plagiarism in the internet age