IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-1-349-12386-5_2.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Value Systems

In: Business Ethics

Author

Listed:
  • Norman Barry

Abstract

In ethical theory there are, to simplify matters, two competing approaches to the evaluation of conduct, whether it is the behaviour of politicians, ordinary people in their daily lives, or business (either the appraisal of the whole system or actions of individual agents operating under its rules); they are the teleological and the deontological.1 These apparently irreconcilable value systems colour, in one form or other, all of our moral judgements. Briefly, teleological judgements are based upon some desirable state of affairs, either for an individual or a group, which some action brings about; and the action is evaluated in accord-ance with its conduciveness to this wanted outcome. It is states of affairs themselves that are intrinsically valuable rather than the moral quality of the actions that bring them about. In contrast, deontological principles relate to those moral duties that restrain us from performing certain actions irrespective of the value of consequences. The duties themselves are intrinsically compelling.

Suggested Citation

  • Norman Barry, 1998. "Value Systems," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Business Ethics, chapter 2, pages 17-36, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-12386-5_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-12386-5_2
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-12386-5_2. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.