MGT 3211 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Virtue Ethics, Descriptive Ethics, Consequentialism
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Morality: social practices of defining right and wrong. Transmitted within cultures and institutions from generation to generation. What people ought to do to conform to society"s norms of behavior. Ethical theory and moral philosophy point to reflection on the nature and justification of right actions, attempt to introduce clarity, substance and precision of argument into the domain or morality. Concerns philosophical reasons for and against aspects of social morality, focuses on justification. Prudence is self interest, morality takes interest in more than one person. Ethical judgments are based on reasoned arguments, laws are based on legal judgments. Law is the public"s agency for translating morality into explicit social guidelines and practices and for stipulating punishments for offenses. Law is not the sole repository of a society"s moral standards and values, even when law is directly concerned with moral problems. Fact that something is legally acceptable does not make it morally acceptable.
