ARBUS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Public Morality
20 Mar 2016
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Corporations cannot have beliefs because they are not people so they cannot have human qualities. Corporations save up and earn interest (investors) Individual interest may conflict with corporation interest: ex. If you watch tv all day at work. Self-interest and selfishness are not the same thing: ex. Being rational is acting to maximise utility: in that sense, humans are not the only rational beings, individuals can be rational but when they come together, the group may not be rational. In other words, it is not always possible to come up with a decision everyone agrees with. Private morality: how you promote your values in life/public. Public morality: how you act when you are representing something: ex. How i act when i"m at american eagle. Dirty hands: when doing the moral thing comes at a moral cost. If our actions affect the well-being of others, ethics has something to say.
