Business Ethics Terms
Business Ethics Terms
Business Ethics Terms
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Language | English |
Category | Religion/Ethics |
Level | University |
Created / Updated | 14.01.2020 / 08.01.2024 |
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Monists
"Only 1 thing is good"
Hedonism: Genusssucht. One's pleasure is the ultimate good or moral end.
- Quantitative: More pleasure is better
- Qualitative: It is possible to get too much of one thing
Not all monists are hedonists!
Pluralists
Two or more things are good.
Bsp: Non-hedonists.
Pragmatists / Instrumentalists
Deal with problems in a sensible way that suits the conditions that really exist, rather than following fixed ideas, theories, or rules.
Goodness theory
Focus on the end result of actions and the goodness or happiness created by them.
Obligation theory
Emphasizes the means (Mittel) and motives by which actions are justified.
Examples: Teleology, Deontology
Teleology / Consequentialism
Consequentialism (based on consequences).
Stipulates acts are morally right or acceptable if they produce some desired result, such as realization of self-interest or utility.
Examples: Egoism, Utilitarianism
Egoism
part of Teleology / Consequentialism.
Defines right or accaptable actions as those that maximize a particular person's self-interest as defined by the individual.
Enlighted Egoism: Allows the well being of others, but self-interst remains paramount.
Utilitarianism
part of Teleology / Consequentialism.
Defines right or acceptable actions as those that maximize total utility, or the greates good for the greatest number of people.
- Rule utilitarianism: Determine behavior on basis of principles, rules, designed to promot the greates utility.
- Act utilitarianism: Examine specifiv action itself, rather than the general rules governing it.