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Course: |
PHI 205
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Title: | Business Ethics |
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Long Title: | Business Ethics |
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Course Description: | Examines philosophical theories about ethics and relevant subsidiary theories about the nature of justice in order to gather ethical decision-making criteria. Such criteria will be applied through logical argumentation to various moral issues and challenges in today’s business environment. Issues covered will include economic distribution, the presuppositions of business, job discrimination, worker’s rights, consumerism, advertising, responsibility to the environment, as well as compassionate and fair responsibility to society. |
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Min Credit: | 3 |
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STANDARD COMPETENCIES:
1. Identify and describe the meaning of philosophical theories in the domain of normative ethics and justice.
2. Analyze and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the major ethical theories.
3. Demonstrate understanding of the techniques of moral reasoning and argumentation that are needed to analyze moral issues in business.
4. Evaluate the morality of the American free-enterprise system, as well as the comparative morality of the various types of economic systems.
5. Apply general ethical principles or decision-making criteria to particular cases or practices in business, as well as
to common moral problems in business.
6. Demonstrate the ability to argue effectively for personal ethical positions taken on issues or policies
7. Demonstrate college level competency in the reading and comprehension of primary and secondary sources.
8. Read, analyze and apply written material to particular situations that occur in business.
9. Utilize college level written communication skills in the articulation of philosophical thought and analysis.
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. Introduction to Ethics, Business Ethics and the Law
II. Normative Ethical theories
A. Utilitarianism
B. Deontological ethics: Kantian, Rights, W. D. Ross’ pluralism
C. Virtue ethics
D. Ethics of Care
E. Social Contract ethics
III. The Nature of Justice
A. Greek conception
B. Rawlsian conception
C. Nozickian conception
D. Economic Distribution; Capitalism and its alternatives (European Socialism, etc.)
IV. Common Ethical Issues in Business
A. Workers rights
B. Privacy
C. Discrimination and Affirmative Action
D. Gender and Family Issues
E. Whistle-Blowing
F. Consumerism
G. Marketing, Advertising, and Product Safety
H. Business and the Environment
I. Ethics and Corporations
J. Ethics in International Business
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