Chapter 3 Questions
Chapter 3 Questions
1. How would you respond when someone makes a decision that adversely affects you while saying “it’s nothing personal it’s just business”? Is business impersonal?
If it was in a company situation I would raise with the company management or human resources. If it was outside in society, I would address the management of the company, raise to consumer affairs or use social media to raise awareness.
Business is personal. Businesses goals are not just to generate profits, and to pay attention to society. Business is based on self-interest view on ethics in that it is an interest in all matter that relate to me, my friends, my family and the society in which I live.
Utilitarianism.
2. Is someone who makes ethical decision based on enlightened self-interest worthy of more or less praise than someone who makes a similar decision based solely on economic considerations?
Someone who makes ethical decisions based on enlightened self-interest is worthy of more praise. Self-interest motives people to form peaceful civil societies. The desire for personal security means that individuals voluntarily limit their personal freedoms in order to secure social harmony.
Whereas a decision based solely on economics considerations are selfish. This means that the decision only concerns the individual, places the individual’s needs and concerns about those of others. In this case, it purely suggests that they are only doing it for the money.
3. Since happiness is extremely subjective, how would you objectively measure and assess happiness? Do you agree with J.S. Mill that arithmetic can be used to calculate happiness? Is money a good proxy for happiness?
It would be done through self-reporting, by being asked questions and having to quantify the number of how happy that scenario makes you. This could also be done with a brain, heart rate and sweating monitoring whilst being asked the same question to establish a correlation for future tests.
I do not agree
1. How would you respond when someone makes a decision that adversely affects you while saying “it’s nothing personal it’s just business”? Is business impersonal?
If it was in a company situation I would raise with the company management or human resources. If it was outside in society, I would address the management of the company, raise to consumer affairs or use social media to raise awareness.
Business is personal. Businesses goals are not just to generate profits, and to pay attention to society. Business is based on self-interest view on ethics in that it is an interest in all matter that relate to me, my friends, my family and the society in which I live.
Utilitarianism.
2. Is someone who makes ethical decision based on enlightened self-interest worthy of more or less praise than someone who makes a similar decision based solely on economic considerations?
Someone who makes ethical decisions based on enlightened self-interest is worthy of more praise. Self-interest motives people to form peaceful civil societies. The desire for personal security means that individuals voluntarily limit their personal freedoms in order to secure social harmony.
Whereas a decision based solely on economics considerations are selfish. This means that the decision only concerns the individual, places the individual’s needs and concerns about those of others. In this case, it purely suggests that they are only doing it for the money.
3. Since happiness is extremely subjective, how would you objectively measure and assess happiness? Do you agree with J.S. Mill that arithmetic can be used to calculate happiness? Is money a good proxy for happiness?
It would be done through self-reporting, by being asked questions and having to quantify the number of how happy that scenario makes you. This could also be done with a brain, heart rate and sweating monitoring whilst being asked the same question to establish a correlation for future tests.
I do not agree