Summary: Ethics And The Future Of Business

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  • What is an ethical theory?

    Principles and rules that determine right and wrong
  • What is normative ethics?

    The study of how we ought to behave.
  • What are the five reasons why business ethics is challenging?

    • Comprehensive
    • Cross-disciplinary
    • Abstract nature
    • Critical thinking
    • Experience
  • What are the three differences between ethics and the law?

    • The law does not cover all ethical issues
    • Not all legal issues are ethical
    • Law and ethics can involve contradictions
  • Which three dimensions of the moral machine experience more agreement?

    • Humans over pets
    • More over fewer
    • Young over elderly
  • Which cultural differences come through in the moral machine when comparing western, eastern and southern cultures?

    • Westerns have an overal preference on all demensions
    • Eastern focus on lawful, humans, inaction and pedestrians
    • southerners have no preference for humans, or inaction
  • What are the core ideas of ethical egoism?

    • Not considered as an ethical theory
    • An action is right if it aims to pursue either their (short-term) desires or their (long-term) interests
    • Contradictory with our moral principles
    • Enlightened egoism
      • Conflicting interests
      • Complemented
  • What are the core ideas of utilitarianism?

    • Greatest amount of good to the greatest amount of people
  • What are the core ideas of ethics of duties?

    Duty, consistency, dignity, and universality
  • What are the core normative theories in Modernist Western thinking?

    • Ethical egoism
    • Utilitarianism
    • Ethics of duties
    • Rights and justice perspectives
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