Ethical Decision-Making in Management

2 The case for moral pluralism and moral pragmatism in ethical decision-making

DOI: 10.4324/9781003255604-4

The most important habits a person can develop are habits of the intellect, sensitivity, and flexibility or ethical learning.

2.1 Moral pluralism in philosophical theory

The word pluralism refers to a perspective which states that many things can be observed (e.g. concepts, scientific views). Moral pluralism has thus developed by claiming that multiple basic ethical values exist which cannot be combined. It also opposes moral monism, where all of such values are combined to form a single grand principle. Finally, moral pluralism is also a theory about normative theory, namely, about what all of these values actually are ( ...