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OBE 117
BUSINESS AND SOCIETY
ETHICAL REASONING
CRITICAL QUESTIONS?
• What Is Ethical Behavior?
• How Do We Measure It?
• How Do We Learn How to Do It?
CATEGORIZATION OF ETHICAL THEORIES
• CONSEQUENTIALISM• DEONTOLOGICAL• HUMAN NATURE
CRITICAL QUESTIONS?
• WHAT IS HAPPINESS?
• CAN ATTRIBUTES OF HAPPINESS BE RANKED? IF SO RANK THEM
CONSEQUENTIALISM
• Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill (Greatest balance of pleasure and unhappiness
• ETHICAL EGOISM– Maximizes My Good,
Harms Me Least• UTILITARIANISM
– Greatest Good To The Greatest Number
• Act - Each Person Benefit Community By Their Action
• Rule - Create General Rule
CRITICAL QUESTIONS?
• WHAT IS DUTY?• ARE PEOPLE
INHERENTLY GOOD?
• DO HUMANS HAVE NATURAL RIGHTS?
DEONTOLOGICAL
• KANTIAN– Good Will - Action freely motivated for right reason– Duty - Reason Guides Will. Duty is an act done
simply for the sake of what is right.– Knowledge of Duty - Determined not from local law
or custom, but from respect for all rational beings and from universal principles