Editing Potter Box (section)

{{Short description|Model for making ethical decisions}}
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The '''Potter Box''' is a model for making [[ethical decision]]s, developed by [[Ralph B. Potter, Jr.]], professor of social ethics [[professor emeritus|emeritus]] at [[Harvard Divinity School]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Ralph Benajah Potter, Jr.|url=http://hds.harvard.edu/people/ralph-benajah-potter|work=Harvard Divinity School website|accessdate=5 January 2014}}</ref> It is commonly used by communication ethics scholars. According to this model, moral thinking should be a systematic process and how we come to decisions must be based in some reasoning.