Ethical issues in todays society

Ethics in today's business world December 4, by Staff Current technology and communication provide a higher than ever level of transparency in business. What are some ethical issues facing our business leaders every day? Today's ethical issues range from very simple to extremely complex. One example of a simple issue is company smartphones.

This paper presents over 30 significant ethical issues that remain unresolved and invite more discussion by the general public.

Social policy regarding these issues shouldn't be decided by special interest groups and lobbyists. The list below is meant to be evocative rather than comprehensive. I hope it stimulates you to think of some issues I haven't listed.

Perhaps we'll add them to the list. The answers to the issues listed below aren't easily deduced from any type of philosophy that I know of—maybe a few, but not all. To assume that a grand unified philosophical theory can address all these issues adequately may be a form of reductionistic thinking.

Some of the easier problems in my mind involve the more individual issues. One application of these issues is as a way to assess the effectiveness of a philosophical system or theory of consciousness-raising.

Ethics involves the sphere of interpersonal, group, and community politics at the level of values—not just what can be achieved or how to achieve it, but more what should be sought, in the realm of social harmony and fairness.

It is the complexity of the other side of individualism— other than taking care of oneself, what do we want our collective to do or refrain from doing? Ethics looks at our proper relations, our duties to each other, indvidually and collectively. In the past, ethics—and a good deal of civil law, in addition—was mixed with the requirements of religious ritual and the establishment of the details of the priestly caste.

There was no other law back then, around the time of Moses, at least for the wandering Israelites, and when the alleged basic rules were laid down in the Torah, the first five books of the Bible. In most other countries, the law wasn't codified, and although there were traditions, the king was the boss and he could be pretty capricious.

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The code of Hammurabi, around BC in the area near Babylon, was a bit of an exception, as far as we know. It took a while to establish a civil government with some semblance of consistent law, and the revisions of the code re-established this effort.

Such efforts also were in reaction to the growing problems of trade, the establishments of small sub-cultural communities within larger communities, and inter-cultural mixing, which then required laws that applied to all sub-cultures within a greater empire.

Before that, each minority or mini-nation or tribe was allowed to apply its own traditional rules of justice—as long as they paid their taxes, sent their military levies, and didn't make trouble, they were left pretty much alone.

The ascendency of the Church in the West and of a theocratic legal system in the Islamic Empires tended to re-establish a more theocratic process, but once again this has broken down in most countries of the West and many in the Middle East, so that civil questions are distinguished from religious ones.

This preamble is being presented because there's still a sense that our ethical rules are if not explicitly described in the Bible, they are implicit there, and can be applied to all modern issues.

The Jews actually tried to do this, and the Talmudic tradition was a result, an interpretative tradition that laid the groundwork for some of the later traditions of rational argumentation found in our judicial systems.

But the problem is this: New circumstances and technologies really create new problems. Should we rationally tie our ethics to these traditional sources and precedents, especially when they arose out of cultures that may be becoming minority cultures in our present society?

Beginning perhaps with the Magna Carta and flowering in the 18th century, the idea of "rights" emerged. The problem is that these were perceived as existing a priori, 0ut there, so to speak, objectively.Posts about Contemporary Ethical Issues written by Ethics and Society.

The sharpest differences between men and women on these issues are not found on abortion or other reproductive matters, but on three issues that involve the ethical treatment of animals.

Majorities of men, but less than half of women, consider the use of animal fur for clothing, and medical testing on animals to be morally acceptable. There are many ethical issues in today’s society.

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I believe that my generation is caught right in the middle of a generation gap. I have noticed over the years growing up, that some people have very opposing views on certain ethical issues. This paper presents over 30 significant ethical issues that remain unresolved and invite more discussion by the general public.

Social policy regarding these issues . There is a deep ethical conundrum going on in society today. And since it is a societal issue, most people in our society (and a good portion of those on Quora) will dismiss it as a non-issue, or simply incorrect.

The answer you are looking for is. Ethics in today's business world December 4, by Staff Rose Procter, director for the BB&T Center for Ethical Business Leadership at the University of North Georgia (UNG), talks about current issues in business and the need for ethical leaders.