Business Ethics Midterms

• He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

  Aristotle
• The unexamined life is not worth living

  Socrates
• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

  Confucius
• One of the meanings given to it by is "the principles of conduct governing an individual or a group"

  Ethics
• when referring to the for which an individual lives his or her personal life

  Personal Ethics
• referring to the code that guides the professional conduct of accountants.

  Accounting Ethics
• Second, for us more important-meaning of ethics according to the dictionary is this the

  Stock Morality
• Although ethics deals with morality, it is _ quite the same as morality

  not
• it is a kind of investigation, which includesboth the activity of investigatingas well as the results of thatinvestigation,

  Ethics
• whereas _ is the subject matter that ethicsinvestigates.

  Morality
• It is the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge,reality,and existence

  Philosophy
• which answers the question "What is the nature of knowledge?"

  Epistemology
• which answers the question "What is the nature of reality?"

  Metaphysics
• which answers the question "What is the nature of values?"

  Axiology
• Metaphysics is concerned with reality and existence. It is the philosophy of being. It can be subdivided into two categories:

  Ontology, Cosmology
• which deals with the nature of existence

  Ontology
• which inspects the origin and organization of the universe

  Cosmology
• It is a key dimension to epistemology

  Logic
• that is from specific facts to generalizartion

  Inductive Logic
• moving from from general to specific

  Deductive Logic
• 2 subdivisions of axiology

  Ethics and Aesthetics
• 2 Subdivisions of Epistemology

  Inductive logic, deductive logic
• studies human conduct and examines moral values

  Ethics
• which values beauty, nature, andaesthetic experience (oftenassociated with music, art, literaturedance, theater, and other fine arts).

  Aesthetics
• involves a discipline that examines good or bad practices withinthe context of a moral duty

  ethics
• It is the discipline that examines your moral standards or themoral standards of a society.

  Ethics
• It asks how these standards apply to your life and whetherthese standards are reasonable or unreasonable-that is, whetherthey are supported by good reasons or poor ones.

  Ethics
• This is considered the oldest philosophy of Western culture. It refers to the world of mind and ideas, where reason is primary

  Idealism
• "father of idealism"

  Plato
• Theologian of the 4th and 5th centuries

  Augustine
• Socrates

  Idealism
• Plato

  Idealism
• Augustine

  Idealism
• Rene Descartes


  Idealism
• Immanuel Kant


  Idealism
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel


  Idealism
• This can be considered the antithesis of idealism, whereby the Universe exists whether mind perceives it or not.

  Realism
• "father of Realism"

  Aristotle
• Francis Bacon


  Realism
• John Locke


  Realism