The Word Ethics

The word ethics comes from the Greek ethos, its meaning something like 'morals'. Actually, ethics are defined as what is moral. According to the theory, morality is the whole of opinions, decisions and actions with which people express what they think is good or right. In other words, to think ethical behaviour, we need to consider on what people think is good or right. It is only a search for the right kind of morality. But I think that the ethics is people try to find a rule for the better live during the course of evolution.

We can differentiate two kinds of ethics. The descriptive ethics are involved with the description of existing morality. It is about facts. Descriptive judgments are therefore true or false. On the other words, there is the specified ethics, also known as the range ethics. This branch of ethics actually judges morality. Range judgments are therefore valued judgments: they state clearly whether something is good or bad. We will mainly consider ourselves with Range ethics. Think of ways in which you use the word 'ethics 'in everyday speech and the contexts in which we use the idea of ethics. (Brown, 1998)

Lo1 understand different ethical perspectives in business

1. Explain the background and development of theoretical ethical approaches.

The background of ethics includes the following:

Virtue ethics theory:

Virtue ethics theory emphasis on the rules which people should follow and it can be helping people develop their good moral character, for instance help each other, respect the old people and to love the younger. These good character traits will guide a person making the correct decisions for their whole life.

Kantian Deontology:

According to the Kantian, the moral of any human activity is not determined by its results, but instead of the fundamentals on which human activity is based. And the duty is the final consideration of the moral of human activity.

Utilitarianism:

Utilitarianism is a consequentialist theory, focus on a good consequence. Most of its problems centre around the use of a numeral thing to control moral consideration. Philosophers who refuse crucial moral theories believe that moral requirements are often valid whether or not they produce more nonmoral good. (John Stuart, 2009)

Contractarian Ethics:

The construct of the contractarian ethics means that the people give up their sovereign rights to a government to receive or maintain social order through the common rule and social law. It can be looked as an agreement by the governed on the rules by which they are governed.

Ethical egoism