ABSTRACT
This chapter considers professionals’ involvement in ethical agendas for individuals. Human well-being does not exist separate from each person living their particular life; other people and collectivities can help or hinder the process, but cannot live a person’s life for them. Many circumstances can place in jeopardy professional work being included on an individual’s ethical agenda. The role of religious professionals in the modern world in trying to define each individual’s agenda is obviously highly contentious, and an ongoing source of basic moral disagreement. A society is in good ethical shape when its members have ethical individual agendas which genuinely give point and meaning to their actions and projects, and therefore their lives. The chapter focuses on the contribution of professionals in identifying and determining ethically challenging situations for each of the main agenda-setting arenas in modern society - individuals, the government, families, commercial organizations, and not-for-profit organizations.
