Professor Scharding specializes in business ethics and using ethical theories to guide managerial decision-making, particularly as regards business innovations and new business trends such as ...

Philosophers nowadays tend to divide ethical theories into three areas: metaethics, normative ethics and applied ethics. Meta-ethics deals with the nature of moral judgement. It looks at the ...

After studying various moral theories, one is bound to be left wondering what to believe. In this selection from The Elements of Moral Philosophy, James Rachels sketches what he thinks would be a ...

Ethical theories represent the grand ideas on which guiding principles are based. They attempt to be coherent and systematic, striving to answer the fundamental practical ethical questions ...

Joseph Fletcher, Naturalism, situation ethics and value theory, in Ethics at the Crossroads, 1995 Situation ethics was originally devised in a Christian context, but it can easily be applied in a ...

Whittaker had continued, in accordance with English tradition, to try to derive the ethical law of justice from “ends” or “goods.” But the a priori cannot be avoided; and if a metaphysical ...

The inexorable progress from this ethical stratum to the formulation of his leitmotif, namely the theory of Social or Moral Choice, was spontaneous. Deliberating on this crucial cogitation which ...

and discuss emerging theories. You'll examine the nature and use of the code of ethics as defined in the Code of Ethics for Career Development Professionals (2021), (formerly Canadian Standards and ...