Business Ethics Introduction to the Ethics of Values

Lucjan Klimsza
Business Ethics
Introduction to the Ethics of Values
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Lucjan Klimsza
Business Ethics
Introduction to the Ethics of Values
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Business Ethics: Introduction to the Ethics of Values
This text was translated from the Czech language by Slavomíra Klimszová.
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Contents
Part One eoretical studies 9
1 Introduction 10
1.1 e basic question of ethics 10

1.2 Why we have to study ethics 11
1.3 Other reasons for studying ethics 12
1.4 e reasons for studying business ethics 12
2 Introduction to Ethics 13
2.1 e meaning of the word ‘ethics’ 13
2.2 Ethics in the ethos 16
2.3 Ethics in morality 17
2.4 Autonomous, heteronomous, theonomous 18
2.5 Denition of ethics 19
2.6 Goals of ethical study 21
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3 Ethics by Recognition Aims 25
3.1 System classication of ethics 25
3.2 Descriptive ethics 25
3.3 Normative ethics 27
3.4 Meta-ethics 29
3.5 Graphical depiction 30
4 Normative Ethics Schools 31
4.1 Ancient hedonism 31
4.2 Utilitarianism 32
4.3 Empiristic ethics 33
4.4 Ethics by norms or principles 36
4.5 Casuistic ethics 37
4.6 Situation ethics 38
4.7 Ethics of reckoning 41
4.8 Deontological ethics 42
4.9 Ethics of responsibility 44
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