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chapter 3
| Answer | |
|---|---|
| Integrity | the adherence to one’s values and principles despite the costs and consequences |
| conflict of interest | Conduct that compromises that loyalty |
| primum non nocere | “above all, do no harm.” |
| civil disobedience | the term used when natural law proponents violate positive law. |
| moral relativists | those who make decisions based on circumstances and not on the basis of any predefined standards. |
| stakeholders | those who have a stake, or interest, in the activities of a corporation; include employees, members of the community in which the corporation operates, vendors, customers, and any others who are affected by the actions and decisions of the corporation. |
| theory of justice | the Locke and Rawlsian standard for ethics that requires that we all agree on certain universal principles in advance. |
| utilitarians | theory of ethics based on doing the most good for the most people in making decisions. BACK |
| positive law | law enacted and codified by governmental authority. |
| natural law | a system of principles to guide human conduct independent of, and sometimes contrary to, enacted law and discovered by man’s rational intelligence. |