Business Ethics Chpt1
The Nature of Morality
Lesson Objectives
Introduction: What is ethics?
What is Ethics?
Ethics is a study of how we conduct ourselves morally in ____________________________ so that the ________________________________.
“Ethics is a study of morality and the application of __________ to elucidate specific _______________ that determine right and wrong” (Crane & Matten 2010, p. 8).
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What is Ethics?
“Ethics is a systematic attempt to make sense of our individual and social moral experience, in such a way as to determine the rules that ought to govern human conduct, the values worth pursuing, and the character traits deserving development in life” (DeGeorge 2010, p. 13).
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What is Ethics?
Some questions of interests in ethics ….
Individual character Moral rules that govern us Questions of right and wrong Fairness and unfairness Good and bad Justice and injustice Moral responsibility
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Lesson Objectives
Introduction: What is ethics?
How do we know that a conduct, act, behavior is ethical?
Moral Standards
There are standards … in fashion, in grammar, in food, in movies, … etc. Standards allow us to evaluate whether something is “good” or “bad”. How do we know whether our conduct, act, behaviour is ethical (morally right) / unethical (immoral)?
A ethical question / moral question needs to be evaluated using _________________
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Moral Standards
Moral standards differ from other kinds of standards because they concern behaviour that is of serious consequence to human welfare.
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Moral Standards
Other characteristics:
a) ____________________ standards, including self interest b) Not established / changed by authoritative bodies BUT based on ________________________________ c) Moral standards are based on __________________ considerations (Rachels, cited in Velasquez, M. G. 2012, p. 12); everyone’s interests are equally important
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Moral Reasoning
Lesson Objectives
Introduction: What is ethics?
What is Ethics?
Ethics is a study of how we conduct ourselves morally in ____________________________ so that the ________________________________.
“Ethics is a study of morality and the application of __________ to elucidate specific _______________ that determine right and wrong” (Crane & Matten 2010, p. 8).
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What is Ethics?
“Ethics is a systematic attempt to make sense of our individual and social moral experience, in such a way as to determine the rules that ought to govern human conduct, the values worth pursuing, and the character traits deserving development in life” (DeGeorge 2010, p. 13).
5
What is Ethics?
Some questions of interests in ethics ….
Individual character Moral rules that govern us Questions of right and wrong Fairness and unfairness Good and bad Justice and injustice Moral responsibility
6
Lesson Objectives
Introduction: What is ethics?
How do we know that a conduct, act, behavior is ethical?
Moral Standards
There are standards … in fashion, in grammar, in food, in movies, … etc. Standards allow us to evaluate whether something is “good” or “bad”. How do we know whether our conduct, act, behaviour is ethical (morally right) / unethical (immoral)?
A ethical question / moral question needs to be evaluated using _________________
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Moral Standards
Moral standards differ from other kinds of standards because they concern behaviour that is of serious consequence to human welfare.
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Moral Standards
Other characteristics:
a) ____________________ standards, including self interest b) Not established / changed by authoritative bodies BUT based on ________________________________ c) Moral standards are based on __________________ considerations (Rachels, cited in Velasquez, M. G. 2012, p. 12); everyone’s interests are equally important
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Moral Reasoning