Should Australian Business Fund Ethics Education in Public Schools?

Running Head: SHOULD AUSTRALIAN BUSINESS FUND ETHICS EDUCATION IN PUBLIC
SCHOOLS?
Should Australian Business Fund Ethics education in public schools?
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CONTENTS
AUSTRALIAN BUSINESS FUNDING FOR ETHICS EDUCATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.........3
UTILITARIAN ANALYSIS.................................................................................................................3
KANTIAN ANALYSIS........................................................................................................................4
ARISTOTELIAN VIRTUE THEORY..................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION.....................................................................................................................................5

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AUSTRALIAN BUSINESS FUNDING FOR ETHICS EDUCATION IN PUBLIC
SCHOOLS
The proposal looks into the basic reasoning of the demand and rise in the induction of
ethics education in public schools across Australia which is the fact that children of modern
times need to be equipped with the skills and ethical knowledge of working in a corporate
environment to prove themselves as better employees or entrepreneurs (Stahl, 2011).That is
why these topics are raised to create awareness regarding the study of ethics and its relevance
to real life work situations (Trevino & Nelson, 2016). This will not only benefit the children
but also the teachers as it will help them learn how to be more professional and ethical in
their own workplace (Boon, 2011).
UTILITARIAN ANALYSIS
Bentham’s theory of utilitarianism focuses entirely on only two points namely
pleasure and pain. From a utilitarian’s point of view, the proposal can be seen as an ethical
was it is looking towards the greater good without taking into consideration personal or
individual interests. The utilitarian analysis reveals the following limitations of the theory
that can be associated with its link to the proposal;
1. Not all consequences of the actions can be known of in terms of whether or not the
funding of Australian businesses for ethical education will turn out advantageous.
2. Integrity and personal responsibility for moral actions might be ignored in order to
achieve the final goal of implementing ethics education in public schools.
3. Individual rights like those of the businesses might be ignored in order to achieve the
goals.
4. The thought that is the basic reason might be ignored just to make sure the target of
funding ethical education is being worked upon.
Utilitarianism is related to providing strong support for democratic policies and institutions
and considers human-human relations to be the most important (Howell, 2010).
Quantitative Analysis of Happiness: - The theory focuses on how the stakeholders of
different businesses in Australia are morally driven towards this cause and discuss how they
think the non-acceptance of this case makes sense as moral and ethics should be openly
discussed in schools and other fields of education (Bentham, 2007). The quantitative analysis
of the case in light of Utilitarianism can be classified as a decision taken for the greater good
and not just an individual (Guidi, 2007). Here the rights of the students and their parents are
being neglected as forced education of ethics leaves them with no choice but to study that