Explain which moral philosophy you feel is best suited for making business decisions and why?
Casey R asked:
Just trying to get some help, not sure of what a moral philosophy is, thanks
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Keep it in the black. Keep it in the black. Never mind the other guy. Never mind your soul. Just keep it in the black. yet_knish
One that is based on truth. Other philosophies may be more appealing, may FEEL better, but will ultimately fail. skeptical
A moral philosophy is a logical system for determining what is “right” and “wrong”. These derive from evolution, which applies to societies as well as to species: a society which adheres to a sound moral code will survive preferably to one that does not. So the moral standard to apply to a proposed action is: will doing this have a beneficial, adverse, or no real effect on society as a whole? Or, to put it another way, would you be happy if a lot of people did what you are proposing to do? Religious claims to be arbiters or definers of moral codes are bogus. rhsaunders
Ethics is a big subject and hard to explain on a forum like this. Read some Aristotle. There are only minor variations to the notion of what is right and what is good so basically there is only one ‘moral philosophy’. megalomaniac
…responsibility…to act in the best interest of your employer…
…that all leave the table having a valid sense of accomplishment…and success… WES
An ethical code is basically a system of values. What is more important than what. All ethical codes boil down to this eventually.
Take utilitarianism, for example. This philosophy suggests that human happiness is the greatest good and that all that matters is having it in the end. If strangling puppies on TV makes people happy, that’s what a utilitarian will do.
Business tends to have its own built-in goal: profit. Over a long enough time, the business that is the most profitable comes to dominate those that aren’t; one that isn’t profitable ends up just going away. Arguably, profit is so important that many businesses have adopted an ethic like utilitarianism but enshrining profit instead: it doesn’t matter if you break laws, harm people, or are odious in any other way, as long as your-long term profit is greater for it. Anything you can ‘get away with’ is fine, and even things you get caught for aren’t bad if the reward is greater than the penalties in law and public perception.
Of course, most of us don’t really want to be around businesses of this nature… that’s like asking to be taken advantage of. So instead of giving all the businesses total free reign, we hedge them in with law after law. Some would argue that other philosophies for business serve the public better, even if they serve the businesses worse. But unless you change the parameters under which businesses are permitted to operate across the board, the aforementioned profit-oriented ones will be the ones that will naturally arise.
“Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.”
– Ambrose Bierce Doctor Why
Christian I suppose, like don’t be greedy, give to others, love your enemy, don’t worry about tomorrow because tomorrow will take care of itself and the present day has sufficiently enough to do. Consider the lilies and birds of the fields, they don’t work for food, but God takes care of them. Basically it comes down to just not to worry. LIfe is an illusion God made out of nothing and to lose it means nothing, you have always existed and will always exist. need2know