University of Wyoming, United States.
University of Wyoming, United States.
Eval Program Plann. 2022 Oct;94:102140. doi: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2022.102140. Epub 2022 Jul 14.
Evaluation is a moral practice. With this in mind, we look to moral philosophy and the theory of virtue ethics as a case study to identify instances where virtue ethics undergirds professional evaluation. To aid in this we also contrast virtue ethics with the more commonly discussed philosophies of consequentialism and deontology and their corresponding evaluation practices. An important question we hope to address is: why does it matter for evaluators to understand connections between moral philosophy and practice? We argue that a greater awareness of moral philosophy will aid evaluators in seeing both the plurality of moral considerations that undergird an evaluation practice, as well as aid in their ability to make judgements among these considerations. In particular, identifying the moral perspectives that ground evaluation practices will aid in evaluation flexibility and use by helping evaluators to tailor evaluations to the situations and moral issue at hand and bringing evaluations explicitly closer to their implicit moral roots.
评价是一种道德实践。有鉴于此，我们将道德哲学和美德伦理学理论作为案例研究，以确定美德伦理学在哪些情况下为专业评价提供了基础。为了帮助我们做到这一点，我们还将美德伦理学与更常讨论的后果论和义务论哲学及其相应的评价实践进行了对比。我们希望解决的一个重要问题是：对于评价者来说，了解道德哲学和实践之间的联系为什么很重要？我们认为，更多地了解道德哲学将有助于评价者看到支撑评价实践的多种道德考虑因素，并帮助他们在这些考虑因素之间做出判断。特别是，确定评价实践的道德观点将有助于评价的灵活性和使用，帮助评价者根据具体情况和手头的道德问题调整评价，并使评价更明确地接近其隐含的道德根源。
