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Business Ethics
Chapter 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Teleology | Acts are morally right or acceptable if they produce some desired result, such as realization of self-interest or utility |
| Egoism | Defines right or acceptable actions as those that maximize a particular person's self-interest as defined by the individual. |
| Utilitarianism | Defines right or acceptable actions as those that maximize total utility, or the greatest good for the greatest number of people |
| Deontology | Focuses on the preservation of individual rights and on the intentions associated with a particular behavior rather than on its consequences. |
| Relativist | Evaluates ethicalness subjectively on the basis of individual and group experiences. |
| Virtue Ethics | Assumes that what is moral in a given situation is not only what conventionalmorality requires but also what the mature person with a "good" moral character would deem appropriate. |
| Justice | Evaluates ethicalness on the basis of fairness: distributive, procedural, and interactional. |