PHI 2397 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Business Game
13 Apr 2020
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Suggested that most bluffing in business might be regarded simply as game strategy - much like bluffing in poker, which does not reflect on the morality of the bluffer. Falsehood ceases to be falsehood when it is understood on all sides that the truth is not expected to be spoken. The criminal is not expected to tell the truth when he pleads not guilty . Everyone from the judge down, takes it for granted that the job of the defendant"s attorney is to get his client off, not to reveal the truth. Businessmen feel constrained every day to say yes to their bosses when they secretly believe no. This is generally accepted as permissible strategy when the alternative might be the loss of a job. The ethics of business are games ethics, different from the ethics of religion. Conscious misstatements, concealment of pertinent facts, or exaggeration. People seek to persuade others to agree with them.
