GBA 2013 Chapter 2: Textbook Notes - Theories of Duties & Rights
24 Aug 2016
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Traditional tools for making decisions in business when the means justify the ends: a foundational question i. In business ethics, do the means justify the ends, or do the ends justify the means: means : what you do in order to reach a goal. Ends : the goals you want to reach, as distinct from what you need to do to reach them. It"s hard to get oriented in ethics without making a preliminary decision between these two: perennial duties i. Fairness : the duty to treat equals equally and unequals unequally. Balancing the duties: develop abilities and talents, do ourselves no harm, avoid wronging others, honesty, respect others. Fairness: beneficence, gratitude, reparation, duties are written into the nature of the universe, they"re part of the way things are. We all use them every day says yes and the other says no: immanuel kant: duties of categorical imperative i.
