Practical principles tested in surprisingly different situations across five continents
A Framework for Universal Ethics
This simple framework of ethics principles has now proven useful to individuals, governments, judiciaries, law enforcement agencies, hospitals, post-secondary institutions, corporations and professional associations across the Americas and in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
Inherently imperfect, the framework’s validity is based primarily on user feedback. Please tell us about your experience applying this free ethics guide to your own situation or to your professional/volunteer role. Let us know if your organization is the first to report that the Flame Framework was not a helpful guide!
The possibility of A Framework for Universal Principles of Ethics was proposed in 1997 in an article on the University of British Columbia’s Centre for Applied Ethics website. After 25 years of widely diverse testing around the world (see below), only one additional principle has ever been suggested.
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