Principles
Say there is a train coming toward a group of 5 people tied to the tracks and you’re standing by the lever to make the train go onto a different path that is heading toward yourself. How can Utilitarianism be applied in this scenario?
Pull the lever to make the train head in their direction. Killing one person creates a greater amount of good than killing 5.
Ethical theories place special emphasis on the relationship between duty and the morality of human actions. What theory is this?
Deontological Moral Theory
What is a net positive company?
A company that leaves the world a better place
Behavior showing high moral standards
Virtue
The moral obligation to act on the basis of fair adjudication between competing claims
Principle of Justice
Free round!!
100 points for you and 100 for another group of your choice!!
Excessive interest in or admiration of oneself and one's physical appearance
Narcissism
Allowing or enabling people to make their own decisions
Principle of Respect for Autonomy
Deals with situations in which neither choice is beneficial
Principle of Least Harm
The doctrine that actions are right if they are useful or for the benefit of a majority.
Utilitarianism
A Conscious Moral Agent is someone who thinks about everyone involved before making a decision and is aware of the impact of their decision.
Please provide an example of times you have been a conscious moral agent in your day to day life
"Humans are ethical animals" - who said this?
Philosopher- Blackburn
The obligation to act for the benefit of the patient and supports a number of moral rules to protect and defend the right of others
Principle of Beneficence
What is utilitarianism for John Stuart Mill?
Pleasure or happiness is the only thing that truly has intrinsic value.
Actions are right insofar as they promote happiness, wrong insofar as they produce unhappiness
Everyone’s happiness counts equally
Striving for balance between two extremes - the happy medium in all decisions
The Golden Mean
The self-regulating business model that helps a company be socially accountable to itself, its stakeholders, and the public.
Corporate Social Responibility
Moral philosophy is concerned with practical issues. Fundamentally it is about how we should act.
Action Guiding Principles
Compare and Contrast Shareholders and Stakeholders Theory
Stakeholders Theory is a firm governed in the joint interests of those who have a sustainable relationship with the firm, such as shareholders, employees, suppliers, customers, and communities in which the firm does business. Whereas Shareholders Theory is a firm that makes decisions based on profit only and believes it is the firm's obligation to pay back these profits to the shareholders.
No one person’s interest counts more than anyone else’s
Agent Neutrality
Kant's Categorical Imperatives (4)
1. Do as you would be done by
2. Don’t use people to benefit yourself
3. Principle of Autonomy- We aren’t dependent on others to tell us from right and wrong but are free to discover this ourselves through reason
4. In an ideal society, rules are based on equal justice