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Business Ethics Assignment Sample

   

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Running head: BUSINESS ETHICSKantian moral theory and Virtue ethics- CriticismName of the student:Name of the university:Author note
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1BUSINESS ETHICSTable of ContentsKantian theory:...........................................................................................................................2Criticism to the theory:...........................................................................................................2Strength and weakness of the theory:.....................................................................................3Virtue ethics:..............................................................................................................................3Criticism to the theory:...........................................................................................................4Strength and weakness of the theory:.....................................................................................4Reference:..................................................................................................................................5
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2BUSINESS ETHICSKantian theory:Kantian theory has been propounded by Immanuel Kant and he had followed theprinciples of deontological ethics. According to him, a good will should be intrinsically goodand the moral law should be comprised of categorical imperatives (Kant, 2017). A personshould think about the moral action before performing any specific act and he should decidethe rightness of the command put towards him. He believed that the action of a personreflects his morality (Arias, 2014). It is the duty of a person to determine the imperatives withhighest priority. Criticism to the theory:The Kantian theory is playing an important role in the study of morality and ethics.However, this theory has certain criticisms too. The concept of duty and morality is quitemetaphysical and impressionistic in nature. Duty is depends on the moral act of a person andthe base of duty could not be defined as a responsibility towards other. Further, the concept ofrational worth is absolute in nature. Professor Kant had failed to define the concept ofperception (Brittan, 2015). He had failed to make distinguish in between the concrete,perceptual knowledge and abstract, conceptual knowledge. Kant has explained the theory ofperception as a mere impression. According to Schopenhauer, every thought is not based onperception and perception can be occurred without any conceptual thought that makes thetheory of Kant weak to this effect. Further, Kant thought that no inner or outer experience ispresent in case of metaphysics which is not right. He had misinterpreted the definitions ofsubjects, existence, illusion, judgment, perception and concept (Arjoon, 2017). He failed todetermine the object of experience and did not differentiate the perpetual and abstract concept(Bird, 2016).
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