AFM311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Virtue Ethics, Moral Development, Feeling

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Accounting & Financial Management
• Course: AFM311
• Professor: Robert Sproule

Document Summary

Intuition, automatic processing: how to make decisions quickly, gut feeling or reaction. System 2: rational thinking: think about the problem, collect evidence, analyze using theory and approaches. Thorne model: understand how your moral development and virtues as a professional tie into ability to work: moral development, the more experienced we are the more likely we will identify an ethical decision. Intellectual virtues: being able to clearly think through what to do: ethical judgment. Instrumental virtues: having the character to act on your rational decisions. Intend to do the right thing and carry out the action: diligence, due care, carefulness, resourcefulness, courageous, does not address how to perform, how to persuade others, gain other people to advocate. Kidder"s ethical checkpoints: recognize there is a moral issue, determine the actor, who is involved and who is responsible, who has the decision making power, gather the relevant facts, test for right-vs-wrong issues, legal test, front page test.