History of Ethics

Ethics

Businesses are concerned with their company image , breaking of the laws in work related duties and any doing that will involve a law suit against the company . This is mainly their reputation and restoring it will involve a lot of money . To avoid all of this , they adapt a moral behavior in knowing what is right and wrong for the company . Therefore ethics are derived from the moral obligations , profit maximization and in following the laws set

In human ethics , an individual is expected to prevent harm , be fair and

just , respect the opinion of others , have a heart for others , to be honest and wiling to comply with the law (Pojman , 2004 . In professionalism , there is need for objectivity and impartiality avoidance of conflict of interest , confidentiality of information , duty of care respected , integrity and full disclosure of information

History of utilitarianism

A proposition on utilitarianism lie with Hume but its formulation and understanding credit is received by Bentham . It was incorporated during the 18th century . It was intended to view the principle of utility and the motivation of human beings . They found out that happiness and pain were humans ' utility and that what generates more happiness to many people is the ultimate right . However , having a large number being happy was difficult thus they settled for principle of happiness to represent utilitarianism . Since then , it has been an influence to economics and used to support different political moves

Introduction

Utilitarianism is a principle of moral ethics . It...