Evaluating business ethics
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Applying moral norms vs justifying moral norms
Disadvantages of ethics of duties
Ethics of rights and justice
- natural rights: rights to life, freedom, property
- there is no complex theoretical deduction
- consensus about the nature of human dignity
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Disadvantages of the Western modernist theories
- Abstract
- Reductionist (only focus on one aspect of morality)
- objective and elitist
- impersonal
- rational and codified
- imperialist
Normative ethical theories:
- individual vs institutional morality: US more about individual behavior, EU more about design of institutions
- questioning vs accepting capitalism: US, ethical problems are seen within capitalist system, EU business ethics focus on questioning the ethical justification of capitalism
- justifying vs applying moral norms: EU strong pluralism of moral convistions and values, therfore justification and ehtical legitimation of norms, US moral values are given and focus is on application of morality
John Rawls Theory of Justice
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