Business Ethics Introduction to the Ethics of Values Lucjan Klimsza Download free books at Lucjan Klimsza Business Ethics Introduction to the Ethics of Values Download free eBooks at bookboon.com 2 Business Ethics: Introduction to the Ethics of Values This text was translated from the Czech language by Slavomíra Klimszová. 1st edition © 2014 Lucjan Klimsza & bookboon.com ISBN 978-87-403-0690-3 Download free eBooks at bookboon.com 3 Business Ethics: Introduction to the Ethics of Values Contents Contents Part One Theoretical studies 9 1 Introduction 10 1.1 The basic question of ethics 10 1.2 Why we have to study ethics 11 1.3 Other reasons for studying ethics 12 1.4 The reasons for studying business ethics 12 2 Introduction to Ethics 13 2.1 The meaning of the word ‘ethics’ 13 2.2 Ethics in the ethos 16 2.3 Ethics in morality 17 2.4 Autonomous, heteronomous, theonomous 18 2.5 Definition of ethics 19 2.6 Goals of ethical study 21 III jjjoooiiinnneeeddd MMMIIITTTAAASSS bbbeeecccaaauuussseee ���eee GGGrrraaaddduuuaaattteee PPPrrrooogggrrraaammmmmmeee fffooorrr EEEnnngggiiinnneeeeeerrrsss aaannnddd GGGeeeooosssccciiieeennntttiiissstttsss III wwwaaannnttteeeddd rrreeeaaalll rrreeessspppooonnnsssiiibbbiiillliii��� wwwMMM.daaaiseeecrrrosssvkkke...cccrmooommmita///MMMs.iiictttoaaamsss I joined MITAS because �e Graduate Programme for Engineers and Geoscientists I wanted real responsibili� Maersk.com/Mitas MMMooonnnttthhh 111666 IIIIII wwwwwwaaaaaassssss aaaaaa cccooonnnssstttrrruuuccctttiiiooonnn Month 16 sssuuupppeeerrrvvviiiIIsss wwooorrraa iiissnnn aa construction ttthhheee NNNooorrrttthhh SSSeeeaaa supervisor in aaadddvvviiisssiiinnnggg aaannnddd the North Sea hhhhhheeeeeelllpppiiinnnggg fffooorrreeemmmeeennn advising and RRReeeaaalll wwwooorrrkkk IIIIIInnnnnntttttteeeeeerrrrrrnnnnnnaaaaaattttttiiiiiioooooonnnnnnaaaaaaaaallllll oooppppppooorrrtttuuunnniiitttiiieeesss ssssssooolllvvveee ppprrrooobbbllleeemmmhhssseelping foremen ������rrrrrreeeeeeeeeeee wwwwwwooooooooorrrrrrkkk ppplllaaaccceeemmmeeennntttsss Real work IInntteerrnnaattiioonnaaall opportunities ssolve problems ��rreeee wwooorrk placements Download free eBooks at bookboon.com 4 Click on the ad to read more Business Ethics: Introduction to the Ethics of Values Contents 3 Ethics by Recognition Aims 25 3.1 System classification of ethics 25 3.2 Descriptive ethics 25 3.3 Normative ethics 27 3.4 Meta-ethics 29 3.5 Graphical depiction 30 4 Normative Ethics Schools 31 4.1 Ancient hedonism 31 4.2 Utilitarianism 32 4.3 Empiristic ethics 33 4.4 Ethics by norms or principles 36 4.5 Casuistic ethics 37 4.6 Situation ethics 38 4.7 Ethics of reckoning 41 4.8 Deontological ethics 42 4.9 Ethics of responsibility 44 www.job.oticon.dk Download free eBooks at bookboon.com 5 Click on the ad to read more Business Ethics: Introduction to the Ethics of Values Contents 5 Ethics by Orientation 46 5.1 Applied ethics 46 5.2 Anthropological orientation 47 6 Business Ethics 52 6.1 Values in business ethics 52 6.2 Freedom 53 6.3 Justice 56 6.4 Responsibility 57 6.5 Trust 60 6.6 Progress 61 6.7 Prosperity 62 6.8 Sustainability 64 3.9 Rationality 64 Study at Linköping University and get the competitive edge! 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Download free eBooks at bookboon.com 8 Part One Theoretical studies Motto of the practical part of the book. “Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.” – G.W.F. Hegel, Enzyklopädie der philosophischen Wissenschaften. Download free eBooks at bookboon.com 9 Business Ethics: Introduction to the Ethics of Values Introduction 1 Introduction The intention of this book is to serve as a compendium which contributes to a better understanding of major ethical terminology and basic ethical systems orientated towards business ethics. Business ethics are part of applied ethics. It means that this book will focus on ethical questions only. Topics like social responsibility or corporate responsibility will be considered only partially as a moral phenomena. We do not want to confuse these topics with ethics. We would like to analyze these phenomena from the perspective of ethics. This compendium should help those who lead their own career or lead other people’s career from the ethical perspective. We will talk about business life in the light of the ethics of values. This book is divided into two parts. The first part is theoretical in which survey of main ethical terminology and the most important ethical systems are presented. The second part of this book focuses on applied ethics in which a few cases are analyzed from the position of normative ethics. 1.1 The basic question of ethics We are searching for answers good enough to be declared the most fundamental for every human being, questions that nobody can escape from because their future depends on the answers. This is not ethics in the purely academic sense of the word, but ethics that everyone who enquirers into questions of their own existence will have an urgent need to be interested in. It needs to be added that searching for those answers becomes very difficult without a certain level of academic erudition. It was Immanuel Kant (Kant: Critique of Pure Reason) who paved the way here by formulating four basic questions that each man has to face: - What can I know? - What should I do? - What can I believe in? - Who is man? Or, who am I? These four fundamental questions serve as a foundation for ethics. Although each is bound to a different discipline, they can be considered, in the broadest sense, the basic starting points of ethics. Example: Children must answer important Kant’s question: ”What should I do?” when they decide to choose a secondary school and consider how much they must prepare for exams if they choose a particular school. The truth is that their family helps them, especially their parents, but they must make this decision and also do something more by studying hard. Download free eBooks at bookboon.com 10