COMM 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Bertrand Russell, Situational Ethics
19 Oct 2018
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The branch of knowledge or study dealing with moral principles. General consensus or agreement about what is right and wrong. If there are no ethics/ethical code there is a potential for chaos. Even in war there is the geneva convention. Without them we have a lack of trust and harder to be friendly with each other and co-exist. Media impart lessons about ethical behavior. Do right and wrong in purely legal terms. Moral knowledge can be learned and acquired. Defy social convention in pursuit of higher moral good. Repetition of moral behavior includes notion of good (virtue) within people. Virtue lay between extremes of excess and deficiency (the golden mean) Virtue lay midway between extreme forms of behavior. Yes because it informs us of how we see situations. Ethics can be interpreted differently by different people. Act in accordance with universal moral principles, regardless of consequences. Certain behaviors must be prohibited, even if they yield beneficial consequences.
