Sandel: Justice whats the right thing to do. Doing the right thing

Question

Name the 4 reasons for business ethics:

Answer 1

1 Not every company is in 1 country
2 Technological development make people ethic aware (what's accepted?)
3 Society is asking more from companies
4 Because of internet there is more investigation/sharing/transparency possible

Answer 2

1 Consequentialism: what will be the consequences of my behavior? When the consequence is a acceptable, the behavior is acceptable
2 Deontology (f.e. Kant): WHY is someone showing this behavior? Reasons of behavior
3 Virtue ethics: does the behavior suit the generally accepted virtues of society

Ex. driving too hard to save your wife:
1 Wife is saved so it is acceptable
2 Why you want to save her? Cheap householder or you love her? The reason determines if it is acceptable
3 Society doesn't accept driving to hard? Then it is wrong.

Answer 3

- Normative judgments: when you are asked what you think of someone’s tie, so for example that you don’t like the tie of the lecturer.
- Moral standards: the standards on which you base your normative judgments. It is a factual description of what you are seeing at that moment, so for example that you like the color red and therefore like the tie. WHY do you like something?

Answer 4

1. Define what your moral standard is: what is from your point of view good behavior/results/things to follow (described in a strong and proper way).
2. Describe as factual as possible, with all kind of relevant information, the situation you would like to change. Describe in a natural and factual way what behavior you are going to follow.
3. Compare the description with your moral standards and then you can think of your moral judgment. This is ethical reasoning: clarify every time you give a moral judgment what kind of moral standards you would like to see.