Ocr a2 g582 ethics - 31st may 2012

Original post by del1rious

if business ethics comes up i will jam my biro into my carotid artery, just sayin

I agree wholeheartedly! I thought applied ethics was something I could do... apparently not, according to my mock! Just some really nice questions would be fantastic. Is that too much to ask for?! :wink:

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et cetera

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ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS

Is Aquinas' (Natural M. Law) Primary Precept of 'Preservation of Life' applicable to animals as well as humans?

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joelchan

Original post by et cetera

ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS

Is Aquinas' (Natural M. Law) Primary Precept of 'Preservation of Life' applicable to animals as well as humans?

Yeah, and plants, but it depends on what the belief in the sanctity of life is. Do non-sentient beings have sanctity of life? Also Aquinas was catholic believed in Dominion and Stewardship.

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Original post by jaya44

Could you please summarise Macintyre for me. Please.

Sorry it has taken me a while, just been revising and only just come to check.
MacIntyre argues that the theories e.g Utilitarianism etc have lost sight of what morality is about really, achieving our Telos - our function or purpose. He wants to get back to the idea of our human purpose/function depending on community. This is because he saw morality as a community thing, we can hardly do good actions/become virtuous all by ourselves? So yeah, basically...emphasises the community aspect of morality over individualism of today/that is encouraged by other theories. :smile:

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swiftylol

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How much do we need to know for business ethics?

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Original post by et cetera

ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS

Is Aquinas' (Natural M. Law) Primary Precept of 'Preservation of Life' applicable to animals as well as humans?

I argued it could be in an essay, but it's a bit dubious considering Aquinas believes our reason puts us above animals, so probably just means human life. Depends how you interpret it I suppose...

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Ness

Original post by swiftylol

How much do we need to know for business ethics?

Essentially just how each ethical theory (Kant, Utilitarianism, Religious ethics, Natural Law and Virtue ethics) are applied to it. You don't need to know the masses of detail for the ethical theories that we learnt at AS, just the bare bones really. It would probably also be good to have some examples of good/ bad businesses that you can use to back up your argument.

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Original post by swiftylol

How much do we need to know for business ethics?

The issues surrounding these various factors: what is the purpose of business? To purely exist to create profit? or does it have social responsibility too? Then issues of employee/employer relationships, consumer rights, how business affects the environment and Globalisation and its impact. Most of them you'd be able to consider on the spot I suppose? not too much revision behind it. Unless you consider people like Karl Marx, Adam Smith..John Rawls (Stakeholder theory) and Milton Friedman(shareholder theory) More how'd you apply a theory to those issues I think....

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SBradford

Can some quickly go over how a theory such as virtue ethics would apply to business?

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IceCool

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Original post by joelchan

Yeah, and plants, but it depends on what the belief in the sanctity of life is. Do non-sentient beings have sanctity of life? Also Aquinas was catholic believed in Dominion and Stewardship.

I thought preservation of innocent life only applied to humans?

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EllJay10

Well tonights Simpsons episode was on miracles and visions, I'll take that as a sign

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Ness

Original post by SBradford

Can some quickly go over how a theory such as virtue ethics would apply to business?

Virtue ethics and business:

- By both employer and employee habitually being honest and fair, the business as a whole will benefit (Aristotle emphasised the fact that being virtuous takes place as being part of a community; it is not exclusively limited to the individual)
- Being virtuous means products must be honestly advertised, be of good quality and be sold at fair prices.
- Businesses could follow 'role models' of other businesses.
- You could justify some acts in favour of making profit for the business as being "entrepreneurial" which would probably be seen as a virtue. As there are no 'rules' in Virtue ethics, you also cannot hold a business to fault if something goes wrong, or assess what sort of punishment of sanction would be appropriate.
- Shareholders would not be seen as virtuous as they are only interested in the business making as much profit as possible for their own gain.

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