BTM 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Rule Utilitarianism, Relativism, Positive Psychology

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Business Technology Management
• Course: BTM 200
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Ethics: the study of the general nature of morals and of the specific moral choices made by individuals. Morals = conforming to established or accepted ideas of right and wrong. Ethical value: guidelines you use to make decisions every day. Relativism: is a theory that holds that there is no universal moral truth and that instead there are only beliefs, perspectives, and values. Situational ethics: states that decision making should be based on the circumstances of a situation and not on fixed laws. Societal ethics provides a general set of unwritten guidelines for people to follow. Rule utilitarianism: an ethical theory that espouses establishing moral guidelines through specific rules. Amoral behavior: is when a person has no sense of what"s right and wrong, and no interest in the moral consequences of his or her actions. Positive psychology: discover the cause of happiness instead of treatment of mental dysfunctions.