To guide our reflection on such difficult questions, philosophers, religious teachers and other thinkers have shaped various approaches to ethical decision-making. ... Values, which guide how we ought to behave, are considered moral values, e.g., values such as respect, honesty, fairness, responsibility, etc. ... Consequently, there is no clear moral compass to guide leaders through complex dilemmas about what is right or wrong. ... Consequently, much of today's literature about business ethics is not geared toward the practical needs of leaders and managers -- the people primarily re...

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Civil Disobedience As Alexander Bickel once stated: We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong.... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disob...

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Ethical Orientations of State Police Recruits and One-Year Experienced Officers There is significant literature in criminal justice focusing on teaching criminal justice students and criminal justice personnel to analyze professional ethical dilemmas ostensibly with the goal of improving ethical decision-making. ... Like most pro- fessions, the various components of the criminal justice system have established ethical standards to guide professional ethical decisions. ...

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Socrates Philosophy is a vast field. It examines and studies many different fields. Virtue, morality, immortality, death, and the difference between the soul and the body are just a few of the many different topics that can be covered under the huge umbrella of philosophy. Among the most revered ...

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Issue 1 In 1990, O' Sullivan said that business and personal ethics are ripe for a comeback as the era of the Me- generation and its obsession with greed and profit at any cost draws to a close. The presumption she made a decade ago has seemed to come through in the new millennium, as companies a...

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