PHI 2397 Study Guide - Emotivism, Bioethics, Lindsay Lohan
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Business ethics: philosophy: virtue ethics = characteristics. No rules, no system it is just. Not based on actions: consequentialism = wants/actions. Based on actions. theological = goal oriented: normative = what is normally considered ethics theory (right or wrong, meta-ethics = working with logic in ethic (what is/ought) You can steal without ever suffereing any bad consequences for having done so. Of course, those you steal from will suffer. The main reason they do not take things without permission is that they fear the ramifications of getting caught. In terms of ethical philosophy, these people are egoists. There are teo basic technical uses of the term egoism: psychological egoism and ethical egoism. Psychological egoism is a theoretical description about how persons are motivated, while ethical egoism is a normative thesis about how persons ought to behave. Psychological egoism is the theisis that each person always ought to seek his or her own advantage.
