PHI 2397 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sissela Bok, Applied Ethics, Environmental Ethics

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 2397
• Professor: Sardar Hosseini

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Obligations of loyalty is somewhat controversial: duska rejects these so called loyalty constraints on acts of whistle blowing, allegedly because each act of whistle-blowing is seen as a violation of loyalty to one"s employer. One does not have an obligation of loyalty to a companybecause companies are not the kind of things which are proper objects of loyalty . Therefore, the issue of the permissibility of whistleblowing is not a real issue (page 80) Simple argument: persons are the proper object of loyalty, corporations are not persons, employees have no obligation of loyalty to their employers (because they are not people) Duska: a worker has a duty to return responsible work for fair wages . Concept of personal loyalty to a business does not make sense because loyalty involves a reciprocal relationship with self-sacrifice with no expectation of reward .