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Lesson 2

Business Ethics


Reading Assignment

  • Text: Chapter 4, pp. 84-98

Learning Objectives

The readings and questions in the lesson will help you to:

  • Describe ethical fundamentalism.
  • Describe utilitarianism as a moral theory.
  • Describe Kantian ethics.
  • Describe Rawls's social justice theory.
  • Describe ethical relativism.
  • Describe maximizing profits as a theory of social responsibility.
  • Describe the moral minimum theory of social responsibility.
  • Describe the stakeholder interest theory of social responsibility.
  • Describe the corporate citizenship theory of social responsibility.
  • Describe corporate social audits.