PSYC 2000 Chapter : Ch4 Consciousness Class
Document Summary
Business ethics: a branch of applied ethics. Is the study and determination of right and good in business. Ethic fundamentalism: also called absolutism, central authority. Individuals look to a central authority or set of rules for guidance: e. g. , the bible, the koran, the writings of karl marx, reliance upon a central repository of wisdom. Ethical relativism: a theory under which actions must be judged by what individuals subjectively feel is right or wrong, this requires one to judge another person"s actions by first putting oneself into that person"s situation. It holds that both parties to a disagreement regarding a moral question are correct, because morality is relative. for themselves. If each person"s actions are always correct for that person, then his behavior is, by definition, moral. If a child abuser truly felt right to molest children, a relativist would say he was acting morally.
