PP247 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sophia (Wisdom), Environmental Ethics, Bioethics
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Pp 247 week 1, unit 1: introduction. Units 5-6: social responsibility of business & professional ethics. Units 7-11: controversial issues that arise in business. Traced back to ancient greeks some 2,500 years ago: previous philosophy took the form of religion & mythology, or of informal & unrecorded speculation. Philosophy comes from greek philia (love) and sophia (wisdom) Well-known philosophers: socrates, plato, & aristotle: all took interest in ethics, socrates: asked (cid:395)uestio(cid:374)s e(cid:454)posi(cid:374)g people"s ig(cid:374)o(cid:396)a(cid:374)(cid:272)e. a(cid:272)(cid:272)used of (cid:272)o(cid:396)(cid:396)upti(cid:374)g the young & making weaker arguments defeat the stronger. Condemned to death 399 bce: plato: student of socrates who wrote dialogues that featured socrates, aristotle: student of plato who wrote treatises on all the major branches of philosophy. In short, ethics is concerned with how one should live and what actions are right and wrong. The disti(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374) of the philosophi(cid:272)al app(cid:396)oa(cid:272)h to ethi(cid:272)s is the e(cid:374)dea(cid:448)o(cid:396) to (cid:272)(cid:396)iti(cid:272)all(cid:455) justif(cid:455) o(cid:374)e"s values, often in terms of particular ethical theories such as utilitarianism.
