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33 Cards in this Set
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extramarital sex
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adultery
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ideaology characteristic of the world of business; involves proportional benefit in return for services
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model of reciprocity and contractual obligation
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philosopher who argues that children should not do things for their parents because they think they have some debt to repay, but rather out of love and respect
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Jane English
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ideology characteristic of the relationship between friends; motivated not by the desire to repay for past services, but out of love and affection
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mutual model of friendship
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philosopher who developed an influential theory on the immorality of adultery
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Richard Wasserstrom
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philosopher who holds an animals liberation theory in which animals are given equal ethical consideration
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Peter Singer
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be capable of having sensation and feeling; capable of experiencing suffering and enjoyment
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sentient
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an unjustified predujiced, or arbitrary bias, for members of one's own species and against members of other species
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speciesism
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someone who does not eat meat
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vegetarian
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an ethical view in which human beings are regarded as central: a thoroughly people oreinted view according to which something's value is determined entirely by how it effects the welfare of human beings
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anthropocentrism
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to start from very different origins but finish in the same place
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converge
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obligations we have to entities that have moral standing to perform certain actions for the sake of those entities in and of themselves
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direct obligations
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said to happen whan a specific ethical prescription is incompatible with another
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divergence
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ethical view that is opposed to anthropocentrism and that places ecology at the center of its system of value; sometimes called a biocetric view
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ecocentric view
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the belief that there is an absolute non-instrumental value in preserving the integrity or wholeness of natural systems and communities; also called eco-holism
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ecocentrism
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the field that tries to determine what kinds of obligations we have not only to animals, but also to land, water, and ecosystems
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environmental ethics
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Perspective in which one takes primary unified wholes and perhaps believes that these unified wholes are greater than the sum of thier parts
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holistic perspective
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obligations we have to things that have no moral standing to treat those things in certain ways, not for thier own sake, but simply because it will affect the welfare of some other entity
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indirect obligations
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ecocentric view that holds that ethical value does not reside only in human beings, but inheres in the land itself
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land ethic
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an 18th century philosopher and one of the greates proponents and exponents of capitalism
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Adam Smith
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a system in which there is private ownership and a free market place, and in which profit is the main motivating factor on economic behavior
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Capitalism
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a relationship in which the shareholdres agree to take a financial risk in return for the company doing everything it can to make a profit for them
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contractual relationship
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occurs when what is in the interset of one group of stakeholders is also in the interest of other groups of stakeholders
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convergence
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the situation in which no one person knows all the aspects of a corporation's decisions since different aspectss are decided in different sectors
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diffusion of knowledge
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from the Latin word for trust; a company has been entrusted with te financial interests of the shareholders
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fiduciary
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concerns the particular decisions that a person makes
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individual repsonsibility
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Smith's view that while self-interest is the main motivating factor of capitalism, in the end, capitalism has a kind of utilitarian result, creating the optimum state for all individuals
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invisible hand
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to be free of the legal responsibilty to provide full compensation for any damages a business is implicated in
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limited liabilty
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concerns the decisions made by groups of people operating within organizational roles
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organizational responsibilty
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rules of conduct that all members of a certain industry agree to follow
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professional standards
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holds that the chief or overriding obligation of a company os to make the greates profit possible
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shareholder view
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holds that companies have direct obligations to all thoses whose interests are in some way bound to the company
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stakeholder view
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occurs when an employee of a company informs the public that the company is doing something wrong
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whistle blower
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