Course OverviewHow do the recent sections fit together?(i.e. “I have no idea what is going on.”)Reminder: “What is ethics?”● Ethics = Right Action○ That is, ethics is concerned with: right and wrong, morally good or bad, moral praiseworthiness and blameworthiness, etc.● Ethical questions○ Am I making the right choice?○ Is there a right choice?○ What is the right thing to do?○ What is the fundamental thing separating what is right from what is wrong?○ What should/ought someone do in a particular situation?○ What are my moral obligations, and to whom do I have them?Overview of Previous Material● Integrity Project: How can I act in accordance with my moral code?○ Can’t I just choose to be a good person?■ No!● Toby Groves● System 1 and System 2 thinking● Moral fading● Moral blindness● Ect.○ Well that sucks. How do I overcome the morally dumb part of my brain? What if I just think/try really really hard? ■ Wow, yeah… that’s not going to work. We need to accept that our brain (and everyone else’s) is just not that great at this being a moral person thing. Help your little buddy out with some techniques that have evidence of being effective.● Nudging/ choice architecture● Vocalizing principlesOverview of Current/Future Material● Ethical theory: Choose wisely!○ Deontology: Rules n’ stuff■ Kantian Ethics● One rule to rule them all!● Categorical imperative■ Freeeeeeeedom! (Caution: Consider how well it ended for Mel Gibson)● Who gets to choose? You do! (If you own it)● Libertarianism = Do what you want with what you own○ Virtue Ethics: The weird one■ Aristotle● Humans = rational animals● Golden mean○ Consequentialism: Clearly the right choice■ Utilitarianism (Welfare): Bentham and Mill ● Happiness is pleasure minus pain (H = Pl - Pa)● Maximize all the the pleasure! Minimize all the pain!Overview of Future MaterialNow let’s address, “What the heck is going on right now?” We are still doing ethics, which is cool because that is the title of the course. However, ethics is a very very large area of study. The best way to get ahold of where we are at is to look at where we were. The previous material covered the very general topics of ethical integrity and ethical theory. The future material is about how those two general topics apply specifically to businesses.Overview of Future Material● Corporate Social Responsibility (Abbreviated as: CSR)○ This a very general topic that addresses the question, “What moral obligations do corporations have?” That is, what does it mean to say a corporation is ethical or unethical.● Environmental Ethics○ This is a narrower topic (Only in the context of this class. Typically, this would be a broad subdiscipline under the category of applied ethics.) about what what it means to be ethical or unethical in relation to the environment we all live in. Think “tragedy of the commons” related ethical questions.● Job Discrimination○ This is a narrower topic (Only in regards to the topic’s main focus. The literature and effects of this topic are quite large.) about ethical questions regarding discrimination. Here the psychology part of the integrity project also comes back into play. Think, “Can’t I just simply choose not to discriminate?” The answer is no, because science. At least, not any more than you can just simply choose to do the right/moral thing. Our brains just aren’t built that