BLAW 368 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Macroethics
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Cartoon of wolf slipping into something more ethical. Ethics is at its most basic level, ethics is concerned with how we act and how we live our lives. Ethics involves what is perhaps the most monumental question any human being can ask: Ethics is, in this sense, practical, having to do with how we act, choose, behave, do things. Philosophers often emphasize that ethics is normative, in that it deals with our reasoning about how we should act (report or describe what is the case) Normative claims (prescribe what ought to be the case) (wont care about this one non-moral) Prescribe or evaluate in matters involving standards such as art and sports (ex: criteria for a good painting or a outstanding athlete) Moral prescribe or evaluate in matters having to do with fairness and obligation (criteria for just and unjust actions and politics) The fundamental question of ethics can interpreted in two ways:
