1st Edition
PHIL 1273: Introduction to Business Ethics
School: The University of Oklahoma (OU )
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Pages: 2Discusses Freeman's argument against the priority of shareholders above other in favor of his own stakeholder preferences.
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Pages: 3Discusses Stone's counterarguments against Friedman's arguments regarding social responsibility within business. Introduces Freeman reading.
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Pages: 3Discusses Friedman's opinion on social responsibility and introduces Stone arguments on the subject
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Pages: 3Discusses the concept of employee loyalty in the Bok and Duska readings. Introduces Friedman's ideas of social responsibility.
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Pages: 2Discusses business and moral responsibilities of employees and employers. Explains and analyzes the concept of whistleblowing and its moral characteristics in various situations.
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Pages: 4Reviews the basic principles of comparable worth and introduces concepts of affirmative action under the premise of moral theories.
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Pages: 3Introduces employee and employer ethical issues in light of moral theories.
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Pages: 4Reviews previous discussion of Savan reading. Analyzes the utilitarian, deontological, and virtue theory aspects of the work.
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Pages: 2Introduces Unit 3 information and then focuses on advertising and firms interactions with consumers. Analyzes Savan reading.
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Pages: 3Reviews utilitarian justifications of the market and identifies the pattern of the argument. Discusses the deontological perspective of libertarianism, its implications, critiques, and the pattern of argument applied to the Srinivasan reading.
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Pages: 3Reviews utilitarian concepts in the market and critiques their justification. Introduces deontological concepts and the association with libertarianism and its justification. Briefly covers policy implications.
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Pages: 3Reviews justifications for the market. Discusses a critique of the utilitarian position based upon the Hausman and McPherson reading, including arguments and objections to the material and key points.
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Pages: 3Reviews previous lecture on markets ethics. Introduces basic notions of utilitarian correlations to market principles.
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Pages: 2Discusses the basics of markets and justice under an ideally free market. Examines the case of voluntary vs. conscription armies and how different moral theories argue.
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Pages: 3Discusses virtue theory and Aristotle's construction of the idea. Explains teleological thinking and how it is applied to humans.
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Pages: 4Defines freedom and what it means to be a person under utilitarian and Kantian views. Discusses freedom and morality through hypothetical cases. Also covers desires and the freedom associated with them, concluding in the idea of "categorical imperative."
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Pages: 2Transitions from utilitarianism to deontological ethics. Introduces a focus on motives and freedom through case examples.
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Pages: 2Discusses debatable values of utilitarianism and how to compromise those issues through alternative thinking.
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Pages: 2Discusses Bentham's original ideas for utilitarianism and how Mills later adjusted some of the initial principles.
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Pages: 2Reflects on previous Nora Tilden case and principles occurring in the various situations. Introduces and defines three types of moral theory. Begins discussion on utilitarianism, including its definition and key figures.
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Pages: 3More adequately explains the meaning of moral architecture. Describes the differences between moral psychology and moral theory. Begins to discuss the ideas surrounding moral theory and its definition through questioning and hypothetical examples of what it means to do the right thing.
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Pages: 3Conveys Plato's illustration of a chariot lead by two differing horses, each battling for the control of the charioteer and relates this idea back to previous discussion of how people perceive incorrect actions. Also compares chariot analogy to modern day ideas on the subject of moral psychology.
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Pages: 2Briefly summarizes general concepts of the syllabus and revisits ideas from previous class period on the case of Toby Groves and the NPR Radio discussion. Covers the Fisman and Galinsky article also.
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Pages: 2Possible explanations for the reasons people commit ethically incorrect actions, examined under the case study of Toby Groves