June 15, 2011 by

Weblinks and READING

The whole of Geoffrey Klempner’s excellent course on business ethics – with many ideas which could be adapted for A level,…

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June 15, 2011 by

Article: (Level 2): Business Dilemmas

In this article Geoffrey Klempner argues for an objective basis for morality which is broadly Kantian – seeing my human interests…

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May 14, 2011 by

Article: Sleep walking to disaster?

Here’s a hyperlink to an excellent set of articles on the environmental issue. http://www.religioustolerance.org/environment.htm

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May 12, 2011 by

Article: 4: The Virtue Ethics of Hursthouse

Rosalind Hursthouse is a foremost virtue ethicist.  This article discusses the main points of her approach – which can then beb…

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May 8, 2011 by

Article 3: The case for Moral Realism

Torbjorn Tanssjo’s teaxtbook is one of the five I recommend in my bibliography. Tanssjo is a moral realist – and here’s…

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May 8, 2011 by

CASE STUDY 4: Arthur Andersen

When accountants Arthur Andersen were implicated in the collapse of Enron it shook the accountancy world.  After all, accountants are paid…

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May 8, 2011 by

Article: Are corporations morally responsible?

James Gray concludes in this article: “Although corporations are an entrenched force in our civilization that probably aren’t going anywhere soon,…

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May 8, 2011 by

Article: 1: The development of meta-ethics

James Gray is a very clear writer, I think, who has generously left some short ebooks online. He is a naturalist…

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May 5, 2011 by

Article: Three approaches to the free will debate

Here is possibly the clearest explanation of the free will/determinism debate I have ever read.  If you use Robert Bowie, you…

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May 2, 2011 by

Extract 4: Prescriptivism

R.M. Hare (1919-2002) developed a theory of moral language called Prescriptivism (for a detailed discussion and consideration of the criticisms made…

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