[Philosophy 2074F/G] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (23 pages long)

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Ethics is about learning how one ought to act in order to live a good life. We can have different conceptions about constitutes a good life, and what good we wan to maximize in our lives. We need to consider how the actions we take affect others, and how they promote or interfere with their abilities to purse their conception of a good life. We want to make sure that in our own purist in life we are not unjustifying inferring with our peoples pursuit. All too often businesspersons have only one caption of the good in mind, specifically the profit. While maximizing profit is crucial to the success and flourishing of a business, (1) the pursuit of profit is not good without exception (2) nor does it need to be the only good that businesses should be concerned with.