Philosophical Ethics And Business

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Ethics and Business
Ethical Decision Making: Personal and Professional Contexts
Philosophical Ethics and Business
The Corporate Culture-Impact and Implications
Corporate Social Responsibility
Ethical Decision Making: Employer Responsibilities and Employee Rights
Ethical Decision Making: Technology and Privacy in the Workplace
Ethics and Marketing
Business and Environmental Sustainability
Ethical Decision Making: Corporate Governance, Accounting, and Finance

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Ethics attempts to answer the question of how we should live, but it does not give reasons to support its answers.

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A philosophical and reasoned ethics must provide justifications for why a human being should act and decide in a particular prescribed way.

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Principle-based ethics direct us to consider the moral character of individuals and how various character traits can contribute to, or obstruct a happy and meaningful human life.

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Utilitarianism has been called a consequentialist approach to ethics and social policy.

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Utilitarianism is a social philosophy that opposes policies that aim to benefit only a small social, economic, or political minority.

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The "administrative" version of utilitarianism considers competitive markets to be the most efficient means of maximizing happiness.

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The "market" version of utilitarianism argues that questions of safety and risk should be determined by experts who establish standards that the business is required to meet.

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Utilitarians would object to child labor as a matter of principle.

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A principle-based framework defines a set of rules that enforces us to act or decide in certain ways.

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According to a principle-based ethical framework, social contract functions to organize and ease relations between individuals.

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The concept of a human or moral right is central to the utilitarian ethical tradition.

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Employees have a right to a minimum wage, equal opportunity, and to bargain collectively as part of a union. These rights are examples of contractual agreements with employers.

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One of the major challenges to an ethics based on rights points to practical problems in applying a theory of rights to real life situations.

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An ethics of virtue focuses on the actions of a person rather than the person's characteristics.

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Virtue ethics emphasizes the more affective side of our character.

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Question 16

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The three major categories of an ethical framework are:

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utility, virtue, and values.

universal rights, values, and moral principles.

universal rights, cultural norms, and morals.

consequences, principles, and personal character.

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Question 17

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Which of the following ethical frameworks directs us to decide based on overall consequences of our acts?

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Principle-based ethics

Kantian tradition

Utilitarianism

Virtue ethics

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Identify the ethical tradition that directs us to act on the basis of moral principles.

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Principle-based ethics

Utilitarianism

Virtue ethics

Consequence-based ethics

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The study of various character traits that can contribute to, or obstruct, a happy and meaningful human life is part of ____ .

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Kantian tradition

virtue ethics

principle-based ethics

utilitarianism

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Question 20

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Utilitarianism's fundamental insight is that we should decide what to do by:

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considering the moral character of individuals.

following the rules, regardless of consequences.

acting only out of a self-interest.

considering the consequences of our actions.

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