Ethicality
Slides for Peter’s Lecture series on Business Ethics. Best viewed in order, but not imperative. Materials comprise the entire lecture content of a course delivered at Lancaster University.
Lecture 1 – Managing as an Intrinsically Ethical Endeavour, and Kant’s Categorical Imperatives
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Lecture 2 – From Divine Commands to the Theory of Moral Sentiments
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Lecture 3 – Judgements of Value, Utilitarianism and Normativity
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Lecture 4 – Virtue Ethics & Machiavelli
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Lecture 5 – Capitalism & Corporations
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Lecture 6 – The Amorality of Economics & Scientism
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Lecture 7 – Science & Scientists – following the scientists following the money
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Lecture 8 – Scandals & Crises [1] – who judges the judges?
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Lecture 9 – Scandals & Crises [2] – a ‘battery’ of ethical problems – it’s all about ‘power’!
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BBC – Ethics: Introduction to Ethics
(BBC Archives)
Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy – The Theory of Moral Sentiments – courtesy of Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy.
The philosophical ethical framing of his conception of capitalism in his book The Wealth of Nations.
Aristotle’s Ethics – courtesy of Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy.
A powerful crystallisation of the master’s thinking.