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2. Sources of Ethical Standards
• The Utilitarian Approach
• The Rights Approach
• The Justice and Fairness Approach
• The Common Good Approach
• The Virtue Approach
3. A Review of the Five Approaches
• Review the criteria for each of the five
approaches
• As you read, note whether there is an
approach you are attracted to and use
most often
• Note whether there is one you use
rarely or not at all
• Be prepared to discuss in your table
group
4. The Utilitarian Approach
• Utilitarianism holds that the morally right
course of action in any situation is the
one that produces the greatest balance of
benefits over harms for everyone affected
• The focus is on the consequence of the
action: the greatest good for the greatest
number
• If the action produces the maximum
benefits for everyone, it doesn’t matter
whether the benefits are produced by lies,
manipulation or coercion
• Sometimes the end justifies the means
5. Problems with Utilitarianism
• How do we determine benefits and
harms? How do we assign value? e.g.
the value of life, the value of money,
the value of time, the value of human
dignity?
• Can we ever calculate all the
consequences of our actions?
• What of justice? What happens to
minorities?
6. The Rights Approach
• A long history: “all men…are endowed
by their Creator with certain
unalienable rights…among these are
life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness.”
• A right is a justified claim on others
• A right to freedom means I have a
claim to be left alone by others or,
conversely, that others have a duty or
responsibility to leave me alone
7. Where Do Rights Come From?
• Many believe they are given by God: “God-
given right,” “endowed by their Creator”
• Immanuel Kant believed they could be
derived by the exercise of Reason
• The justification of a claim on others, i.e.
a right, depends on some standard
acknowledged and accepted by society,
not simply the claim of an individual
• These may be codified in law, but they
may also be moral standards that most
people acknowledge
8. Kant’s Categorical Imperative
• For an action to be a moral action
1. It must be amenable to being made
consistently universal
2. It must respect rational beings as ends in
themselves and not as means only
3. It must stem from, and respect, the
autonomy of rational beings
• These three formulations are all
aspects of the Categorical Imperative
9. Negative and Positive Rights
• Negative rights claim a zone of non-
interference from others, e.g. right to
freedom, right to privacy, right to bear
arms
• Positive rights claim for each person
the positive assistance of others in
fulfilling basic elements of human well-
being like heath and education
• Clearly, rights can be in conflict, and
often are
10. The Justice and Fairness Approach
• Justice and Fairness means giving
each person what he or she deserves
• Justice is more concerned with what is
right generally, fairness is often about
judgments specific to a particular case
• A long history: Plato’s “Republic” to
John Rawls’ “A Theory of Justice”
• How do we determine what people
deserve?
11. Deciding What is Just and Fair
• Individuals should be treated the same,
unless they differ in ways that are
relevant to the situation in which they
are involved
• Where might we see no relevant
difference and thus treat people the
same at work?
• Where might we see relevant
difference and thus treat people
differently at work?
12. The Common Good
• An old notion: Plato, Aristotle, Cicero
• With a new twist from John Rawls:
“certain general conditions that are…
equally to everyone’s advantage.”
• Having the social systems, institutions,
and environments on which we all
depend work in a manner that benefits
all people
13. The Virtue Approach
• The previous approaches focus on
what people should do; the virtue
approach focuses on what people
should be
• Fundamental question: what kind of
person should I be?
• Virtues: attitudes, dispositions,
character traits such as honesty,
courage, compassion, generosity,
fidelity, integrity, self-control, prudence
14. The Virtue Approach
• Virtues are developed through learning
and practice
• Character can be improved
• A virtuous person will be naturally
disposed to act consistent with moral
principles
• Virtues are developed within
communities
15. Sources
• Markkula Center for Applied Ethics,
Santa Clara University
• Richard T. DeGeorge, Business Ethics,
third edition, Macmillan, 1990