OBE 117

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OBE 117

• BUSINESS AND SOCIETY

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ETHICAL REASONING
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CRITICAL QUESTIONS?

• What Is Ethical Behavior?
• How Do We Measure It?
• How Do We Learn How to Do It?

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CATEGORIZATION OF ETHICAL THEORIES

• CONSEQUENTIALISM
• DEONTOLOGICAL
• HUMAN NATURE

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CRITICAL QUESTIONS?

• WHAT IS HAPPINESS?
• CAN ATTRIBUTES OF HAPPINESS BE RANKED? IF SO
  RANK THEM

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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

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CRITICAL QUESTIONS?

• WHAT IS DUTY?
• ARE PEOPLE INHERENTLY GOOD?
• DO HUMANS HAVE NATURAL RIGHTS?

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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