Lecture 2: Ethics

Question 1

What is morality?

Answer 1

Morality is concerned with the norms, values and beliefs embedded in social processes which define right and wrong for an individual or a community

Question 2

What is ethics?

Answer 2

Ethics is concerned with the study of morality and its application to determine right and wrong

Question 3

What is consequential ethics?

Answer 3

The effect of a behavior determines the moral content

Question 4

What are the different types of consequential ethics?

Answer 4

Number: Monism, pluralism
Nature: Pleasure, well-being, individual preferences
Goals: egoism, utilitarianism

Question 5

Consequential Philosophers

Answer 5

Bentham: Greatest pleasure for greater number
Mill: Pleasure is qualitative, preference-utilism

Question 6

What is deontological ethics?

Answer 6

The morality of an act is determined by the nature of the act

Question 7

Deontological philosophers

Answer 7

Kant

• Categorical imperative as litmus test
• holds for everyone in every situation
• never use another person as means

Rawls

• Theory of justice
• Each person has equal rights to certain liberties
• Equality of opportunity
• Difference principle

Question 8

Virtue philosophers

Answer 8

Plato: Virtue is expressed in the executing of a specific task

Aristotle: A virtue is a characteristic

Question 9

What are the 5 principles of ethical leadership?

Answer 9

1. Respect others
2. Serve others
3. Show justice
4. Honesty
5. Community

Question 10

What is the 7 corporate virtues model?

Answer 10

1. Clarity
2. Congruency
3. Compatability
4. Feasibility
5. Transparency
6. Discussionability
7. Sanctionability