1. David M. Boje, Ph.D. New Mexico State University 7 December 2011

3. 1. Rules you never break? (Immanuel Kant) 2. Instrumental - any means to an end; greatest good for greatest number (John Stuart Mills) 3. Virtue – Habits fine and excellent; not excess or deficient? (Aristotle) 4. Answerability – one person in moment of being who acts to intervene (Mikhail Bakhtin) 5. Principle Based Ethics (Bill Daniels) – draws on 1, 3 & 4, not on 2 8/16/2015 3 Copyright - David M. Boje, Ph.D.

4. RULE-BASED ETHICS e.g. Categorical Imperative to make your individual maxim a universal (i.e. Golden rule) UTILITARIAN ETHICS e.g. Theory applied from one’s discipline; between relativist positions; can be utilitarian or practical business ethics ANSWERABILITY ETHICS e.g. We have answerability to bring about change in our complicit systemicity producing unethics LIVING STORYTELLING PRINCIPE-BASED Ethics e.g. Living one’s life as virtuous story to have compelling acts or deeds VIRTUE ETHICS e.g. Living one’s life as virtuous story to have compelling acts or deeds This figure (1) is adapted from Boje (ed) 2008b Critical Theory Ethics For Business and Public Administration (Charlotte, NC: Information Age Press). INSTRUMENTALAL e.g ends justify means, good of the majority, situational or empirical way of looking at the world This one Bill Daniels id not do:

5. Book IBook I The Highest Good: Happiness Book II Virtues of Character Book III The Preconditions of Virtue Book IV Generosity Book V Justice Book VI Virtues of Thought Book VII Conditions Connected with Virtue & Vice Book VIII The Varieties of Friendship Book IX Disputes between Friends and Dissimilar Aims Book X Pleasure (& the theory of process & locomotion) Book II Book III Book IV Book V Book VI Book VII Book VIII Book IX Book X Download: A 456k text-only version is available for download.available for download 8/16/2015 5 Copyright - David M. Boje, Ph.D.