(ppt)Prescriptive Approaches to Ethics.pptVIP

Prescriptive Approaches to Ethics Geoffrey G. Bell, PhD, CA University of Minnesota Duluth October 2004 Sources for Lecture Our text Kant, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals (many editions) Mill, J.S., Utilitarianism (many editions) Rawls, J. (1971). A Theory of Justice, Belknap Press, Cambridge, MA. Cavanagh, G.F., D.J. Moberg, and M. Velasquez (1981). “The ethics of organizational politics,” Academy of Management Review, 6(3): 363-374. Problems with Prescriptive Approaches People tend to be a “blend,” not “purely” Utilitarian or Kantian or whatever. Prescriptive approaches give confli