...Business Ethics 2 Business ethics is certain behavior that a business follows when dealing with people in the business world. Many businesses have made a bad reputation for themselves because they are only interested in making money, an example of this would be the Enron case. Many of today’s top corporations have been fined a lot of money for unethical decisions. Ethical behavior in business improves the well-being of the individuals because it promotes things such as generosity, and compassion for each other and their customers. Ethical behavior among businesses can be enhanced when there are conferences between CEO’s of the organization and their employees talking about the standards of the organization. One way to find out if there is an understanding of ethical behavior is to ask employees if they understand the core values that make up the business. If they do not know them employees may unknowingly be practicing unethical behaviors that the company may not tolerate (2007, Nov 9). One out of every three major corporations offers some kind of ethical training which helps their employees to work through difficult situations. For example these programs will help employees to better understand and handle situations when they are confronted with a situation involving unethical behavior being exhibited by another employee. If companies do not have any of these programs they can expect unethical decisions to be made by their employees (White). In recent years companies...
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...Value of Discipline, forgiveness, kindness, and patience I’m glad that I learned the value of discipline, forgiveness, kindness, and patience. As a child, I learned the value of discipline on how to get my goals done on time and plan my life in a scheduled manner. I learned how to save up all the money that I have. I had learned to forgive the people that I love. I had to learn how to be kind to some one. If you learn how to be kind, they will be nice to you. If you are patience with every one of them, then they will be patient towards you. I grew up in Singapore but was born in Hong Kong. As a child, I learned discipline in getting to school on time. I don’t know why I always get to school late, but my parents taught me well. They taught me the value of time management of which I am still working on today. As a child, I was a bit stubborn, I didn’t like math a lot, but my parents taught me anyway, on how to save up money and pay for my own expenses wisely. Today, I still save money to pay for my own expenses such as my guitar class. In conclusion, learning the value of discipline, forgiveness, patience, and kindness, taught me to be a better person. My parents taught me to always be forgiving whenever I made a mistake. I learned how to be patient when working with people and customers. Even though, other people may have made mistakes, I have learned that through my own made mistakes, I have learned to forgive people for their mistakes. I am thankful...
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...It is really interesting to make a thorough search in what way the religions of the world are different from the religion of Jehovah's Witnesses. Because then we can find out, that the Christian religion of Jehovah’s Witnesses are really different in a big way from the religions of the world. This alone would not be so very interesting. But the interesting point is, that the Christian religion of Jehovah’s Witnesses are different in a positive way. For example: Every Jehovah’s Witness knows outstandingly what the Bible is telling all about. How’s that come to be? Before somebody can become a Witness of Almighty God Jehovah (Jehovah is the Name of God, according to the Bible), he or she must really study the Bible. To that point, that he or she knows and really understands the main Bible teachings. This is one big difference to most other religions. Jehovah’s Witnesses have really a good understanding of the teachings of the Bible. It is also amazing, that even the little ones among Jehovah’s Witnesses know the teachings of the Bible. But this is just one of the reasons, why Jehovah’s Witnesses are in a very positive way different from other religions. We have many different experiences; from the slamming of doors on us; to those who respectfully listen and converse with us. Quite often we find that we can really get people thinking about what they've been taught by their own religion. Some get upset that they've been paying into their religious system all their lives, and haven't...
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...Relationship Between Religion and Morality The sense of ‘doing the right thing’ is a generally unifying concept held by the majority of humanity. Morality is a more or less uniform concept; for religious believers, this unity comes from a greater power pointing humanity in the right direction on decision making. For non-believers, the opposite applies. Possibly the most famous opponent of the link between religion and morality is Richard Dawkins. Dawkins takes the argument in the complete other direction claiming that religion leads to evil. Religion serves as a virus that corrupts human minds; on the matter Dawkins said religion is, ‘an indulgence of irrationality that nourishes extremism, division and terror.’ Dawkins assault on religion is aimed primarily at extreme Islamists and Evangelical Christians. Dawkins strongly dislikes the idea of educational institutions being misused to teach what are in his view, lies, such as creationism and biblical texts over evolution; likening it to ‘child abuse.’ The link to abusing children is an extreme one to make; but for Dawkins to mislead children and fill their head with lies is wrong. To take that further; Dawkins hates the fear installed in children through religion such as the concept of hell and eternal damnation. Education is a tool that allows practices, belief, and knowledge to continue and to be passed on; for Dawkins this means that the divisions insinuated by crossing paths with someone of a different religion is worrying and...
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...Notes for the Course: Religion and Ethics in our Modern Society, 2012 By Dr H Ndlovu Definition and Nature of Christian Ethics Ethics is derived from the Greek word “ethos” that is also comes from another word “ethika.” Ethika means norms, conventions, values, customs the society. Thus ethics is a discipline that examines one’s moral standards or the moral of a society. These are absorbed from family, church and friends. Why Study Ethics There are nine reasons why human beings have to study ethics. 1. Human beings are capable of reasoning from cause to effect with the understanding that everything done has effect. 2. Human beings are capable of making choices after comparing the alternatives, that is, internal and external. People have two cells namely: a. Real – what we have now b. Ideal – what we are aiming at 3. Human beings are self – conscious. This means we can study ourselves by being a subject and be the object at the same time. 4. Human beings are finite or limited not knowing what will happen from the next moment or next door. Thus, we must have principles to apply when situations comes. 5. Human life is an active dynamic phenomenon – We do something as if we do nothing. 6. People also can be taught to be good (Isaiah 1 :18) 7. Human beings are capable of filing an obligation 8. Human beings are also capable of understanding what moral terms like freedom, dignity and so on affects other people. 9. Finally, human beings need to survive. Human civilization...
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...for the view that ethics is independent of religion Ethics is a science of socially accepted values approved, adopted and agreed in practice of social interaction as ideal and relevant for social life.The claim itself speaks that although religion lays a foundation of socially accepted values (sometimes these values are restricted to its followers) but even a staunch atheist can have a personality which is based on ethical and moral values. Consider the example, palmistry deals with prediction of a person’s future by examining their hand, but that does not means a person without limbs has no future in this case the person is simply not eligible for this process just like an atheist who does not believes in religious foundation of ethics but has his/her own understanding and application of it. If we observe, religion’s claim on ethics are basically the same, for example the seven deadly sins in Christianity, The noble eight-fold path for cessation of suffering in Buddhism,the three-fold path of life in Jainism, Five evils in Sikhism, the path to salvation in Hinduism, moral duties in Islam. All the religion laid an ethical and moral foundation for its followers and believers. But nature breeds so many other living beings that practice ethics without the knowledge of .existence of religion. it has many such examples that directly or indirectly practice ethical values in their actions of day to day lives. A child who does not understands anything about religion acts ethically...
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...sometimes realize. Religion and ethics are obviously intertwined as it exist countless studies of Christian ethics, Islamic ethics, Hindu ethics and so on. Both religion and ethics serve a common need in our society. Societies are built on the plank of co-existence and mutuality. Ethics is the study of what "ought" to be. It is a theoretical study and is otherwise referred to as the study of morality. Moral is an important part in ethics. Ethics as a branch of “philosophy”, has three components (Feiser 2003): "meta-ethics" studies the sources and meaning of ethical terms; "normative ethics" does the more practical task of examining the moral standards that regulate right and wrong conduct; and "applied ethics" examines controversies such as abortion, infanticide, animal abuse, environmental concerns, homosexuality and capital punishment. To behave ethically is to behave in a manner consistent with what is right or moral. Ethics is simply the principles used by people that control their conduct. Religion is a system of thoughts, feelings, and approach that is shared by a group of members and that gives the members an object of devotion; a code of behavior by which individuals may judge the personal and social consequences of their actions, and a frame of reference by which individuals may relate to their group and their universe. There is a spectrum of views about how religion and ethics are related from the view that religion is the absolute bedrock of ethics to one that holds...
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...AS Philosophy of Religion 2001 1. (a) What are the key features of the design argument for the existence of God? (10 marks) (b) Identify the strengths of this argument. To what extent are these strengths more convincing than its weaknesses? (10 marks) 2. (a) Describe the main strengths and weaknesses of the cosmological argument for the existence of God. (14 marks) (b) To what extent do the weaknesses of this argument limit its effectiveness? (6 marks) 3. (a) Examine the characteristics of BOTH a religious and a scientific interpretation of the origins of the universe. (14 marks) (b) Comment on the view that the differences between these interpretations rule out any major disagreement between them. (6 marks) 4. (a) What do religious believers mean by the ‘problem of suffering’? (5 marks) (b) Select any TWO theodicies and consider how far they offer solutions to this problem. (15 marks) 5. (a) Examine TWO philosophical reasons for belief in miracles. (6 marks) (b) Outline at least TWO problems with belief in miracles. (8 marks) (c) Consider the claim that there are no acceptable solutions to these problems. (6 marks) 2002 1. (a) Outline the design argument for the existence of God. (7 marks) (b) ‘The design argument fails because of its weaknesses.’ Examine and comment on this claim. (13...
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...How can we define ethics? What does ethics mean to you? Many years ago, a psychologist posed this question to a group of business people. To his surprise many of them had a wrong idea or were not sure of their own answers. Nowadays we are faced with a society that hardly knows or understands what this word means. Some people think that ethics has to do with what their feelings tell them is right or wrong, others take ethics as being a religious idea and belief, or something that the law requires. Many others think that it is a standard of behaviors that our society accepts. But what does ethics really mean, and why is it so important for everyone to understand? Due to a lack of ethics many business leaders have failed. In the year 2000, the nation of Peru faced a terrible fraud with Vladimiro Montesinos, who was the long-standing head of Peru’s intelligence service, under President Alberto Fujimori. Secret videos which he had recorded were televised. These videos showed his bribing an elected congressman to leave the opposition and join the Fujimori’s side of congress. These accusations and scandal caused Montesinos to flee the country and accelerated the resignation of Fujimori. Following investigations revealed Montesinos to be at the center of an enormous net of illegal activities, including embezzlement, graft, gunrunning, and drug trafficking. Montesinos has been tried, convicted and sentenced for numerous charges. “He also had strong connections with the CIA, the United...
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...Evaluate Marxist contributions to religion 33 marks Marxism is a conflict theory that makes the assumption that capitalism oppresses the working class within society. This referring to the bourgeoisie (the rich) controlling the proletariat (the poor) as a means of labour through religion. Neo-Marxism believes there is conflict but has an alternative view to tradition Marxists. Marx believes that religion is made to keep the bourgeoisie and the proletariat separate from one another. He states that religion oppresses the working class by giving them a good work ethic by telling them to go to church and that they would be rewarded in the afterlife if they work hard. This allowed the ruling class to exploit them without them knowing, with full consent as they are too absorbed by being rewarded in the afterlife (e.g. going to heaven). This is why religion is said to be the division of classes. However, Durkheim disagrees with this and states that religious institutions play a central part in creating and maintaining value consensus, social order and social solidarity. This is said to be done through the sacred and profane. Sacred things inspire awe and wonder whereas profane things have no special significance, and are “mundane”. The argument is that worshiping the sacred is worshiping society due to the mass amount of power society has and provokes such a feeling. This means religion creates social solidarity within society as people who believe in religion share the same norms and values...
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...PROF : DR. ROSALINDA GOMEZ ETHICS AND ACCOUNTABILITY We, teachers are a model to our students, co-workers and mirror to the community. So with this, teachers should wear good ethics in their life…. What is ethics? The word ETHICS derived from the greek word ETHOS which means “CHARACTER”. It is “mores” in Latin from which come the word moral and morality. definitions of ethics • It is the science of the morality of human act. • The study of man as moral being, one who is rationally able to distinguish being right and wrong. • It concern with the norms of human behavior. the act of correct living Ethics is an art… The art of correct living. Some philosophers regards ethics as the only necessary knowledge. ethics and the Filipino Filipinos believe in moral integrity as essential to life they also believe in a just society. However, some instances, show moral norms are easily ignored for personal interest. When we speaks of “living standard” we inevitably mean “economic” that is, higher salaries and low prices. Perhaps, we should think more of moral standard as our priority. ethics and religion Ethics and religion are both concern with moral education. But they are differ from each other, ethics teaches the value of religion, presenting it as a duty of man towards the supreme being. Religion on the other hand, contributes to the development of ethical thought. Thus, religion and ethics complement each other. ethics norms and law The laws of...
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...https:/www.scu.edu/ethics/ethics-resources/ethical-decision-making/what-is-ethics/ Sociologist Raymond Baumhart asked once business people "what does ethics mean to you?". People replayed different, for example, hat is the feeling that tells them what is good and what is wrong, some individuals relayed ethics to the their religions and some linking ethics with the law. It is hard to answer on this term with one words or one sentence. Ethics should not be linking with the religion. Of course most recognized religion has high ethical standards, but not everyone on the planet is a religion person. Also the good religious people while back burn women on the stake. So religious does not mean good- at least not always. And of course, we have...
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...right or good. There are seven major ethical systems. These major systems are ethical formalism, utilitarianism, religion, natural law, ethics of virtue, ethics of care, and egoism. Each of these major ethical systems is either classified as deontological, teleological, or virtue. Deontological Ethical Systems A deontological ethical system is based on the idea that we have a duty to do certain things and not doing certain things. The word deontological comes from “deonto” meaning “duty” in Greek (Wittjen). With the deontological ethical system, one would consider the basic duties and rights of individuals or groups and make a decision based on your moral beliefs. Ethical formalism is deontological and is a type of theory which defines moral judgments in terms of their logical form rather than their content. Ethical formalism is considered as an absolutist system. If something is wrong, it is wrong all the time. Just as if something if right, it is right all the time. For example, the death sentence is wrong because death to someone and anyone is wrong all the time regardless of a crime they may have committed (Wadsworth, 2005). Religion Ethics is deontological. Religion ethics is when a religion provides moral judgments and directions on how to live one’s life. What is good is that which conforms to god’s will (Wadsworth, 2005). An example of religion ethics would be to not steal because one of the Ten Commandments is thou shall not steal....
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...Personal Ethics Development Paper PHL/323 March 26, 2012 Frank Campbell Personal Ethics Development Paper Today, the world is encountering many situations that make people question personal ethics in and out of the workplace. Ethics are the principles, norms, and standards of conduct governing an individual or organization” (Treviño & Nelson, 2007, p. 13); ethics form the basis for determining the correct action, or moral behavior, in a particular situation. Everyone is given the freedom to choose right and wrong but when does an individual go from good to bad. Is it true that there are good apples and bad apples in the world? I live by an ethical system that I have observed over the last 28 years of my life. That system has been influenced by watching my parents work and live their everyday lives. How does ethics development occur? What is my ethical system? Does setting proper work ethics improve overall performance in the workplace? Why are ethics needed in an organization? Ethics are the foundation for individuals and organizations around the world. My ethics development has occur over many years of my life. I still believe that I am in the development stage. I remember growing up and observing everyone around and just beginning to understand right from wrong. At an early age, I was always doing things I shouldn’t be doing because at a young age we are still learning and figuring out how the world works. Once we begin to understand, then...
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...Western ethics is vastly influenced by Christian law-based ethics, which in turn gathered its legal ethical code from Judaism. As a result, as society's values have changed, the effectiveness of transcendent entities as rulers within law-based ethics to provide ethical agents with an obligation to obey the moral law has been brought into question. This essay will focus on Christian ethics, where 'transcendent entities' will refer to the Christian God, and 'law-based ethics' is the divine law set down by God within Christian scripture. To prove that God is necessary to provide ethical agents with a duty to follow the divine law, this essay will discuss God and humanity's nature, agents' need for a transcendent law-giver, the role that religion...
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