Business Ethics
Something that I have found particularly interesting in Baird's textbook is the notion of "deontological" ethics. (Baird 151). This is the idea that "right" behavior or "good" behavior is about playing by the rules. However what I find really interesting about the idea is that, in some sense, it is the only way we have of getting a glimpse into the motivations of others. In some sense, a full account of the ethics of any given situation must in some way take into account someone's motives -- especially motives for compliance. Ethical behavior shouldn't be something that we adopt out of a sense of compulsion. Instead, with deontology, we are talking more about the concept of duty.
I suppose what is most interesting to me about this is the notion that there can be different reasons, good and bad, for adopting the same set of ethical principles. I'm also fascinated by the fact that sometimes a seemingly good principle can be made bad -- either because it is adopted shallowly, or because it is taken to an extreme. However, I think this is useful because deontology is, in some way, a good way to guard against only judging actions by their results, which I think is a serious error, especially in the business world. In any case, these are current ways in which Baird's approach has expanded by own ethical imagination.
Perhaps I can give a personal example. A number of years ago, I recall sitting with my grandmother and watching an interview program on the Catholic cable television network (EWTN) which was broadcasting an interview with the Catholic ethical thinker and retired philosophy professor Alice von Hildebrand. There was one example that Von Hildebrand gave which really stood out in my mind. She was discussing the importance of integrating emotion into one's moral choices, but noted that an excess of emotion could be as dangerous as the opposite. The example she gave was from an Austrian play, where a rich man discovers...
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