BUS 223 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Consequentialism
16 Mar 2017
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Chapter 3 philosophical ethics & business page 123-149. Human rights & social justice: liberty to make our own choices deserves special protection as a basic right, equal treatment & equal consideration must be fundamental rights. Virtue ethics: making decisions based on integrity & character: virtues can be understood as those character traits that would constitute a good meaningful life. Wednesday february 10, 16: egoism a view which holds that people act only out of self-interest, the biggest challenge to ethics is the apparent gap between self-interest & altruism, or between motivation that is. 3 ethical frameworks: 3 ways of thinking about ethics, utilitarianism, looks at outcomes, popular in politics, principle-based/ rights-based. Ethical framework #2: principle-based / rights-based decisions making, we should protect right & perform duties, these are often nearly absolute". I have a right to have x, so you/they have a duty to do y (or not do y: just who has that duty is not always clear.
