PHIL215 Lecture Notes - Virtue Ethics, Elitism, Artificiality
26 Nov 2012
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Ethics: how you should live your life; how you should conduct yourself throughout life. Justice: how all of us should shape the basic social institutions which have the widest and deepest impact upon our lives (eg, government, the law, the economy, health care, education and etc). Business: trying to make money; the legal pursuit of profit in a free society. The symbol of profit is the pie sign. The research shows that, generally, good ethics means good business. Though not absolutely always, as it"s not a perfect world. Time and again, the case study literature abounds with instances of bad behaviour (from the ford pinto to enron) coming back to haunt the doer and to harm his or her bottom line. Over the long-term, it"s in your rational self-interest to behave ethically in your business dealings. He rather sue everyone rather than put engine in every car or some. He opened up his own financial investment thing.
