Johannah Hollobaugh
The articles written by Albert Carr and Norman Chase Gillespie
introduce role differentiation into moral conventionalism of business ethics.
I take these two articles into consideration when choosing how I would go
about deciding whether or not I would use slaves for free labor or pay
laborers to work for my plantation. There are a few prominent views to set
forth a strong argument about how to go about deciding if this is morally
right for me to accept or deny the use of slavery. I take Kant’s Deontology
and Bentham’s utilitarianism, along with Gillespie and Carr’s articles on
moral conventionalism to go about this.
When it comes to adhering to Kant’s Deontological ethics, one simply
cannot justify morality when it comes to slavery or accept the moral
conventionalism that Carr believes is ethically correct if you are in
business. Kant believes that morality is based on reason and that we have
an ethical duty or moral obligation, not just because we feel like it, to do the
right thing. We as humans know right from wrong through categorical
imperative. When we take Carr’s view of moral conventionalism which
states that business is a form of competition. They have their own business
ethics when it comes to a game plan strategy to keep their business above
everyone else’s. He believes that if business practice is not illegal then it is
ethically acceptable. Kant uses the Categorical Imperative to back his own
belief because what we do eventually will become part of human nature,
