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Dec 26, 2024
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PHL 160 - Ethics in Business
Credits: 3
3 Lecture Hours
Description
This is a philosophy course in applied ethics that seeks to expose students to moral philosophy, ethics theories/traditions; and to enable them to apply those theories to decision making in the business world.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will:
- Describe the following types of ethical reasoning; consequentialist/teleological and nonconsequentialist/deontological.
- Explain the ethical objectivis’s response to the ethical relativist.
- Discuss the contradictory nature of ethical egoism.
- Identify and describe the ethics theories/traditions that are presented in this course (Utilitarianism, Kant’s Theory, Natural Law Theory, Virtue Ethics, Care Ethics, Symphonology) and apply these theories to the ethical challenges found in the world of business.
- Describe Rawls’s Theory of Justice and Nozick’s Entitlement Theory.
- Explain the relationship Marx describes between production and the social order.
- Define affirmative action and its role as related to discrimination.
- Explain the process of change needed to address moral distress.
Listed Topics
- Ethical Reasoning
- Ethical Subjectivism/Relativism
- Ethical Egoism
- Ethics Theories: Utilitarianism, Kantian Ethics, Natural Law Theory, Virtue Ethics, Care Ethics, Symphonology
- Economic Justice
- Marx & Capitalism
- Equality & Discrimination
- Moral Distress in the Workplace
Reference Materials
Hoffman, Frederick, & Schwartz, Business Ethics 4th ed ISBN 0-07-248-3482
Approved By: Sutin, Stewart Date Approved: 01/16/2007
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