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ETHICS AND MORAL

Sutrisna Dewi

2014

Change Accelerator in developing Country

Ethical Dilemmas

Please…mention some popular issues in Bali or Indonesia

today!

Economics system and ideology underlying

(Monopoly, oligopoly, free competition)

Not relevant for businesses

Focus on business issues

The basic concept is not visible

Orientation events not in Indonesia

Business EthicsBasic Concept and Its implementation in Indonesia

Ethics Definition

• Ethics is a morality

Narrow View

• Ethics is scienceBroad/Wide

view

Ethics as Morality

• Ethikos and ethos (Greek)– Character– Habit– Moral

• Susila (sansekerta)– Su = good– Sila = Habit

Etika as Morality

• Mos (single) or mores (plural) Latin– Habit– Custom– Good and bad deeds

• Morality– The value system of the quality of good and bad

deeds

Ethics as Morality

• Ethics as Morality:– Values system , that is how humans should live well

as a human

• Ethics and morality are often used interchangeably but mean the same thing

• Moral X immoral• Amoral = nothing to do with morals

Ethics as Science

• Science scinre (to know)• Science: systems of knowledge that are

arranged according to certain principles to be an integral and obtained as a result of testing with a particular method

• Ethics is the science of morals • Having a broader understanding of morality

Ethics as Science

descriptive ethics

Normative ethics meta-ethics

Ethics as Science

• Requires people to behave rationally and critically • Evocative of human awareness to act

autonomous (act on their own without being pushed others) and not heteronomous (told and force other people – not of themselves)

• Helping people to act freely but responsible • Freedom and responsibility are constituent

elements of moral autonomy

Mini Case

• You dream of having the latest smartphone. Ads on TV and newspaper always make you dizzy. It's been 7 days of your insomnia. Today you're on campus and go to the toilet. You see the latest smartphone lying on the floor. There is no other people around you. What would you do?

Norm in file

• Apply to a particular environment (eg. organization)

• Someone to follow the rules when a member organization

Special Norm

• Generally applicable• Forever• Universal

General Norm

General Norm

Courtesy Norm

Moral Norm

Law Norm

Moral Awarness

• Arise when one must take a decision regarding the interest or happiness of others

• Awareness about a fact that does not depend on who is declared

• Are rational, objective, and absolute

The development of individual moral

• Growing follows the journey of the age and situation of the environment

pre-conventional

Conventional

post-conventional

- Heteronomous- Individualist

- Personal- Social system

- Autonomous- Universal

The Role of Ethics

• as morality – Guiding human behavior in order to manage life better – Provides a measure of the system's life – Help resolve conflicts and prevent immoral acts

• As science – Encourages people to behave morally critically and

rationally