Lecture 3: The

Issues of
Relativism
3.1. Resolving the Bayer Crop
Science Dilemma

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 ISSUES, CONTINUED

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BAYER CROP •
SCIENCE’S
DECISION
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BAYER CROP •
SCIENCE’S
ACTIONS
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BAYER CROP
SCIENCE’S ACTIONS

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3.2. WHAT PRICE SAFETY?
“What Price Safety?” A real case
with disguised names and location

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Obedience and Codes of
Ethics

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Stakeholders

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Stakeholders

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The issue:

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 Dilemma

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Dilemma

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3 .3 . The issue(s) of •
Relativism (Part 1)
Descriptive Relativism

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Normative Relativism

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Some additional forms of Relativism

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Naïve Relativism or Egoism

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Problems with Naïve Relativism or Egoism

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More problems

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Moral Judgments

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Role Relativism

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Some Issues with Role Morality

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3.3. The issue(s) of
Relativism (Part 2)
The limits of Role Morality

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“I am just following orders”

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Social Group Relativism

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Two important distinctions

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How do we make moreal judgement?

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The Challenge of Cultural Relativism

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Challenges of Moral Relativism

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Moral Absolutism

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Alternately…Forms of Universalism

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For Global Business: UN Global compact: A
Voluntary Code

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For Global Business: UN Global compact: A
Voluntary Code

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UN Global Compact as Moral Minimums
(“NOTS”)

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Global Compact “NOTS”

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AIM: Overlapping Consensus

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These are Micro Contracts

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Macro social contracts/ “Hypernorms”

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Core assumptions about the Global Economic
Community

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“Moral Free Space”

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Some Candidates for Hypernorms

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Some Candidates for Hypernorms

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