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    Ethical Relativism

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    Bibliography Bartlett‚ Dean. "Management and Business Ethics: a Critique and Integration of Ethical Decision-Making Models." British Journal of Management 14.3 (2003): 223-235. This article researches and identifies the gap between the theory and practice of business ethics. The author identifies the lack of practice of ethical decision making within the organization and provides what he believes to be one solution to bring ethics back into the business process. Brown‚ Neil M.‚ and Nancy

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    Utilitarianism Utilitarianism is a moral theory generally considered to have been founded by Jeremy Bentham‚ a 19th century English philosopher and social reformer. It is centered on the concept of happiness‚ and those who seek it. The idea is that all people seek happiness‚ and that it is the ultimate goal of all human beings to be happy. Therefore‚ according to classical utilitarianism‚ when a person wishes to act in an ethically sound manner he or she should strive to bring about the greatest

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    natural law theory is a theory of ethics that holds that there are moral laws found in nature and discernable by the use of reason” (MacKinnon 2015). This theory law theory identifies the actions of humans and categorized them either right or wrong. Virtue Ethics is often used to define characteristics standard of a person. Virtue Ethics normative theory that maintains that the focus of morality is habits‚ dispositions‚ and character traits” (MacKinnon 2015). Natural law and Virtue Ethics could be

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    Moral Relativism: An Evaluation The world is becoming an increasingly smaller place‚ culturally speaking. The modern world has more bridges to other cultures and ways of thinking than ever before. This phenomenon is due largely to the advent of the internet‚ global industry‚ and increased travel for business and pleasure to opposite corners of the world. This “global village” we live in introduces the average person to more cultural‚ and seemingly moral‚ differences than previous generations

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    CONSEQUENTIALISM Consequentialist morality is built on or concerned with consequences of an action (Thiroux J & Krasemann K 2012). This theory believes that an act is not necessarily considered to be ethically right or wrong‚ but rather is judged to be morally applicable because of the consequences its position creates (Lecture Week 2). So‚ from a consequentialist viewpoint‚ a morally right action is one that creates the best overall result. For example‚ a consequentialist may claim that lying

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    do modern virtue ethics address the weaknesses of Aristotle’s teaching on virtues? (35) Virtue Ethics looks at a person’s good traits‚ known as ‘virtues’ and negative traits‚ known as ‘vices’; a person is considered to be a good person if they are virtuous and a morally bad person if they have developed lots of vices. Deontological and teleological ethicists argue that good or bad behaviour is far more important than a person’s good or bad characteristics whereas Virtue Theory argues it

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    Utilitarianism Utilitarianism is a philosophical theory that believes that right thing to do comes from a measurement of the amount of pleasure over the amount of pain‚ and decides that the right thing to do results in what will be the greatest pleasure for the majority of the group. In other words by calculating happiness you will be able to decide what the right thing to do is as long as it is right for the majority of the people. This seems as if it will only help the people that agree on the

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    and virtue ethics. Deontological‚ and teleological are considered action based theories of morality; they focus completely on the performance of a person’s action. Teleological or consequentialist is ones action judged morally right based on their consequences. When actions are judged morally right and how they conform to some set of duties‚ then it’s a deontological ethical theory. Both systems deontological and teleological focus on asking‚ “What should I do?” however in virtue ethics‚ it focuses

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    At first glance‚ moral relativism appears to be an appealing‚ well though out philosophical view. The truth of moral judgments is relative to the judging subject or community. The basic definition of moral relativism is that all moral points of view are equally valid; no single person’s morals are any more right or wrong than any other person’s. As you look closer at the points that moral relativists use to justify their claims‚ you can plainly see that there are‚ more often than not‚ viable objections

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    briefly for myself; I found these actions to be unethical of him. I will be using the Rule Utilitarianism theory to explain my reasoning for this case. I strongly reason that Utilitarianism is a good theory to implement in the 21st century and is an important approach to ethical decision-making. There are different types of utilitarianism. However‚ rule utilitarianism will be used to explain my reasoning. This theory states that the right action is which follows with the set of rules‚ if generally or

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