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Business Ethics

Introduction to the Ethics of Values

by Lucjan Klimsza
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Language:  English
The intention of this book is to serve as a compendium which contributes to a better understanding of major ethical terminology and basic ethical systems orientated towards business ethics.
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The intention of this book is to serve as a compendium which contributes to a better understanding of major ethical terminology and basic ethical systems orientated towards business ethics. This book is divided into two parts. The first part is theoretical in which survey of main ethical terminology and the most important ethical systems are presented. The second part of this book focuses on applied ethics in which a few cases are analyzed from the position of normative ethics.

  1. Introduction
    1. The basic question of ethics
    2. Why we have to study ethics
    3. Other reasons for studying ethics
    4. The reasons for studying business ethics
  2. Introduction to Ethics
    1. The meaning of the word ‘ethics’
    2. Ethics in the ethos
    3. Ethics in morality
    4. Autonomous, heteronomous, theonomous
    5. Definition of ethics
    6. Goals of ethical study
  3. Ethics by Recognition Aims
    1. System classification of ethics
    2. Descriptive ethics
    3. Normative ethics
    4. Meta-ethics
    5. Graphical depiction
  4. Normative Ethics Schools
    1. Ancient hedonism
    2. Utilitarianism
    3. Empiristic ethics
    4. Ethics by norms or principles
    5. Casuistic ethics
    6. Situation ethics
    7. Ethics of reckoning
    8. Deontological ethics
    9. Ethics of responsibility
  5. Ethics by Orientation
    1. Applied ethics
    2. Anthropological orientation
  6. Business Ethics
    1. Values in business ethics
    2. Freedom
    3. Justice
    4. Responsibility
    5. Trust
    6. Progress
    7. Prosperity
    8. Sustainability
    9. Rationality
  7. Introduction to Case studies
    1. Case study
    2. Definition of the case study for ethics
  8. Case: Students‘ thesis
    1. Introduction
    2. Case analysis from different schools of normative ethics perspective
  9. Case: Loyal employee
    1. Introduction
    2. Analysis of the case from the perspective of different schools of normative ethics
  10. Literature
Lepulana Ledwaba
Thanks for a compelling book on ethics, well done....
Patrick Mwanza
This is an Excellent book. It puts to task the current form in which business is done and questions even the very foundations of the modern economy. Very illuminating.
Keba Annah Motswedi
This book is very good in the sense that you learn about the behaviour, attitudes, morals, etc of people in organisations as well as communities as a whole. It also helps in dealing with different characters of people in the workplace.
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Lucjan Klimsza

Email address: lucjan.klimsza@osu.cz

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Lucjan Klimsza was born in Havířov, a small town in the Czech Republic. He studied at the Theological Faculty, Comenius University in Bratislava, where he earned his doctoral degree Doctor of Theology (ThDr.) in 2007. In 2009 he earned his doctoral degree in History of Philosophy (PhD.). In 2014 he finished his studies at the Faculty of Arts at Comenius University in Bratislava, where he defended his doctoral degree Doctor of Philosophy (PhDr.).

His main area of interest is the ethical problem of values in the context of postmodern philosophy. He has published articles in several journals, for example The New Educational Review. He lives with his family in Havířov and works at the Department of Social Studies, Pedagogical Faculty of Ostrava, University of Ostrava, where he lectures History of Philosophy and Introduction to Ethics.

He is the author of several articles about the values and also some books in the area of History of philosophy like Wust: Identita nejistoty (Wust’s Identity of Uncertainty in translation), and in the area of axiology Hermeneutical Aspect of Values. He is also a co-author of educational apps in Appstore like History of Western Philosophy and History of Western Ethics which are great additions to the book Business Ethics, published in Bookboon.

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