ABSTRACT
This chapter describes briefly the ethics by guided dialogue approach. It provides the basis for understanding and developing ethical skills for guided dialogue. The chapter focuses on the process of recognising and analysing ethical questions. It also focuses on understanding different approaches to making ethical decisions. Most people make most of their ethical choices using a holistic approach and the decision-maker may or may not be conscious of the steps or the values informing the process. For ethical skills to be used successfully in dialogue with others or taught to others, it is essential to make them visible and describe them as a process with distinct parts. After considering the stakeholders, rights and responsibilities, and options, it is possible to see the ethical issues more clearly. On one side, the approach can be based on individual stakeholders whose benefit and harm can be either known or estimated. Comparing benefit and harm is essential for the consequentialist approaches.
