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ETHICS
THE ARGUMENT OF SCANDALS
ARGUMENTS FOR BUSINESS ETHICS
ETHICAL RELATIVISMS
Ethical values and judgments are ultimately
dependent upon, or relative to, one’s culture
and society, and there is no right or wrong,
moral or immoral, to follow the in terms
of a particular culture or society
(J. Desjardims, 2006).
ETHICAL SKEPTICISM
One cannot reasonably assess ethical
values and norms at all.
THE ARGUMENT OF SCANDALS
MORALITY: Practices and activities that are
considered importantly right and wrong, the
rules that govern those activities; and the
values that are embedded, fostered, and
pursued by those activities and practices.
THREE COMPONENTS OF
RESPONSIBILITY:
(1) The subject of responsibility
or who is responsible
(2) The content of responsibility
or for what one is responsible
(3) The authority toward whom
one is responsible