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Glossary Chapter 9
Glossary terms for Business Ethics: An Interactive Introduction, Chapter 9
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Moral agent | A moral agent cab be assigned praise or blame, and can understand moral principles, respond to moral reasons, and be held morally accountable. |
| Causally responsible | An agent is causally responsible for an action and its consequences if her freely made decision brings about the action. |
| Sufficient condition | A sufficient condition is enough to produce the outcome, but is not always required to produce the outcome. |
| Necessary condition | A necessary condition is required to produce the outcome, but is not always enough to produce the outcome by itself. |
| Reductionism regarding corporate accountability | Reductionism regarding corporate accountability is the theory that we cannot hold a corporation to be morally accountable and that all moral accountability lies with individuals within the corporation. |
| Holism regarding corporate accountability | Holism regarding corporate accountability is the theory that the corporation as a whole is capable of moral agency, and thus can be morally accountable for the deeds of its agents and employees. |
| Corporate character | Corporate character is a corporation’s dispositions to behave in ways that we can judge to be virtuous or vicious, which are determined by its ethical codes, compliance-mechanisms, climate, etc. |
| Distribution of moral accountability | The distribution of moral accountability is a method of assigning moral accountability within the corporation without taking away the moral accountability of the corporation as a whole. |
| Predictive role of determining causal responsibility | The predictive role of determining causal responsibility is the use by a moral agent of knowledge of cause and effect to foresee the results of her decision. |
| Retrospective role of determining causal responsibility | The retrospective role of determining causal responsibility is the use, after implementation of the decision, of knowledge of causation to assign moral accountability (praise and blame) to the correct agent. |
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