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Through a combination of globalisation and growing diversity, Eastern ethics and spiritual practices have become prominent within businesses and their conduct. [1] Across the Eastern and Oriental region, differing ethics arise from historic philosophies, religions or ways of thinking and may prohibit or encourage specific conduct.
Recent attempts to incorporate Western philosophy into Eastern thought include the Kyoto School of philosophers, who combined the phenomenology of Husserl with the insights of Zen Buddhism. Watsuji Tetsurô , a 20th-century Japanese philosopher attempted to combine the works of Søren Kierkegaard , Nietzsche, and Heidegger with Eastern ...
Ethical idealism, [1] which is also referred to by terms such as moral idealism, [2] [3] principled idealism, [4] and other expressions, is a philosophical framework based on holding onto specifically defined ideals in the context of facing various consequences to holding such principles and/or values.
The Four Cardinal Principles are also referred to as the fundamental principles of conduct, or four social bonds. They are derived from the Legalist text Guanzi, attributed to the Qi philosopher Guan Zhong, although it is unlikely he was the actual author. The Four Cardinal Principles can be understood as the following:
Medical ethics – studies ethical issues concerning medicine and medical research. Professional ethics – ethics to improve professionalism. Discourse ethics – discovery of ethical principles through the study of language. Normative ethics – study of ethical theories that prescribe how people ought to act.
A constant theme of debate around Western values has been around their universal applicability or lack thereof; in modern times, as various non-Western nations have risen, they have sought to oppose certain Western values, with even Western countries also backing down to some extent from championing its own values in what some see as a contested transition to a post-Western era of the world.
Ethics in 20th century analytic philosophy has been argued to have begun with Moore's Principia Ethica. [159] Moore argued that what is good cannot be defined. [160] Instead, he saw ethical behaviour a result of intuition, which led to non-cognitivism. [161] W. D. Ross in contrast argued that duty formed the basis for ethics. [159]
Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. Its main branches include normative ethics, applied ethics, and metaethics. Normative ethics aims to find general principles that govern how people should act.