Exam 2: Ethical Principles in Business

UNOCAL worked with the Burmese army to push the pipeline using forced labor.

Utilitarianism is attractive to many because it matches the views we tend to hold when discussing governmental policies and public goods.

Utilitarianism characterizes the moral approach taken by Ford in the infamous Pinto case study.

Few businesses maintain that the socially responsible course to take is the utilitarian one with the lowest net costs.

Roche can defend its use of harvested organs solely on the basis of ethical relativism.

Considerations to follow in determining what the moral thing to do might be are:

Immanuel Kant's principle, called the categorical imperative, requires that everyone be treated as:

Rule utilitarianism looks only at moral rules of a particular action.

Negative rights are defined entirely in terms of the duties others have not to interfere with you.

Intrinsic goods are things that are desired for their own sake, such as health and life.

Major problems with the utilitarian reliance on measurement include:

Rawls Principle of equal liberty includes:

Cost-benefit analysis is used to determine the desirability of investing in a project (such as a dam, factory, or public park) by figuring whether its present and future economic benefits outweigh its present and future economic costs.

UNOCAL agrees that it shares responsibility with the Burmese army over treatment of pipeline citizens.