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LEB 320F Ethics Questions Solved 100%Correct | Verified
what are components of the moral minimum - ✔✔o Honesty
o Loyalty
Relationship gives
• Expectation will further the other person's interests
• Ability to cause serious harm
When we enter into relationships, we take an affirmative obligation to
• Disclose relevant information
• Keep confidential information the other party expects us to protect
• Avoid undisclosed conflicts of interest
• Best interest of the other parties, even if action is not in our best interest
o Keeping commitments
Would need justification to not keep commitments
o Doing no harm
If we can anticipate that a certain action or inaction will have a negative affect on others, we
should try to avoid harm
Do no harm found throughout the law of torts
process of analyzing moral questions - ✔✔o Identifying issues - defined narrow enough so
we can analyze them adequately and exercise some degree of influence
o Identifying governing principles - rules, principles, formulas, moral minimum
Principles in ethics are general
Prima facie duties that constitute the moral minimum
, Should try to identify the pertinent moral obligations as precisely as possible
o Collecting, verifying, drawing inferences from information - verify accuracy, reliability,
completeness; find true facts, but with caution; make inferences and predictions
o Applying the facts to the principles and balancing competing obligations
Highly qualitative and involves a degree of subjectivity
Excusing conditions - is there a condition that might lessen the strength of one obligation
relative to another?
Conflict reduction - agreements, compromises, removing from situation
Prioritizing - if we cannot eliminate a moral dilemma;
• relative importance increases with the degree of harm and the probability harm will occur
o Making a moral decision
Inaction is a choice
No guarantees
moral relativism - ✔✔anything goes
when in rome do as the romans do
focuses on differences, breeds confusion, lack of cohesive conversation
absolutism - ✔✔reject any departure from one's moral code; opposites; extremes
pluralism - ✔✔many values that conflict, but a finite number of values according to Isaiah
Berlin
focuses on similarities, can identify a moral minimum
types of actors - ✔✔o Active and knowing wrongdoers
Classes on business law and ethics will do nothing for this group
o Passive and knowing wrongdoers
Not the initiators of wrongdoing, but don't blow the whistle
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