BUS 306 Ethics Mid Term Verified Answers
•Ethics is a system of moral principles. They affect how people make decisions and lead their lives.
•Ethics is concerned with what is good for individuals and society and is also described as moral
philosophy.
•The term is derived from the Greek word ethos which can mean custom, habit, character, or
disposition.
What is Ethics?
•: deals with the nature of moral judgment. It looks at the origins and meaning of ethical principles.
Metaethics:
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is concerned with the content of moral judgments and the criteria for what is right or wrong
Normative ethics
: looks at controversial topics like war, animal rights, and capital punishment
Applied ethics:
What Use is Ethics
Ethics doesn’t give right answers.
Ethics can give several answers.
a statement about an ethical fact
, Moral realism
a statement about my own feelings
Subjectivism
expressing my feelings
Emotivism
giving an instruction or recommendations
Prescriptivism
•Looks at moral character, rather than ethical duties and rules, or the consequences of actions.
Virtue Ethics
ethics and morals
ethics are a social system and morals are individual.
ethics is because society says it is the right thing to do. morrals is because we believe in something being
right or wrong
SMORC Model
•SMORC - Simple Model of Rational Crime
•Let's talk through some examples:
•To steal candy from a convenience store
•To commit murder
•To cheat on a university final exam
•Other examples?
•Driven by two opposing motivations:
•We want to view ourselves as honest, honorable people. We want to be able to look ourselves in the
mirror at the end of the day and feel good about ourselves (also known as ego motivation)
•We want to benefit as much as possible by cheating and this frequently takes the form of financial gain
Foundation of the Fudge Factor
•Balancing the two opposing motivations is the human skill known as rationalization:
•As long as we cheat by only a little bit, we can benefit from cheating and still view ourselves as good
human beings
Fudge Factor Theory
when our actions are more distant from the execution of a dishonest act and when we can more easily
rationalize them, most people find it easier to be dishonest
Golf:
•Understanding the mechanisms involved in dishonesty is complex
•Ethics is a system of moral principles. They affect how people make decisions and lead their lives.
•Ethics is concerned with what is good for individuals and society and is also described as moral
philosophy.
•The term is derived from the Greek word ethos which can mean custom, habit, character, or
disposition.
What is Ethics?
•: deals with the nature of moral judgment. It looks at the origins and meaning of ethical principles.
Metaethics:
Previous
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Next
Rewind 10 seconds
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0:15
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Brainpower
Read More
is concerned with the content of moral judgments and the criteria for what is right or wrong
Normative ethics
: looks at controversial topics like war, animal rights, and capital punishment
Applied ethics:
What Use is Ethics
Ethics doesn’t give right answers.
Ethics can give several answers.
a statement about an ethical fact
, Moral realism
a statement about my own feelings
Subjectivism
expressing my feelings
Emotivism
giving an instruction or recommendations
Prescriptivism
•Looks at moral character, rather than ethical duties and rules, or the consequences of actions.
Virtue Ethics
ethics and morals
ethics are a social system and morals are individual.
ethics is because society says it is the right thing to do. morrals is because we believe in something being
right or wrong
SMORC Model
•SMORC - Simple Model of Rational Crime
•Let's talk through some examples:
•To steal candy from a convenience store
•To commit murder
•To cheat on a university final exam
•Other examples?
•Driven by two opposing motivations:
•We want to view ourselves as honest, honorable people. We want to be able to look ourselves in the
mirror at the end of the day and feel good about ourselves (also known as ego motivation)
•We want to benefit as much as possible by cheating and this frequently takes the form of financial gain
Foundation of the Fudge Factor
•Balancing the two opposing motivations is the human skill known as rationalization:
•As long as we cheat by only a little bit, we can benefit from cheating and still view ourselves as good
human beings
Fudge Factor Theory
when our actions are more distant from the execution of a dishonest act and when we can more easily
rationalize them, most people find it easier to be dishonest
Golf:
•Understanding the mechanisms involved in dishonesty is complex
