Chapter 8

Moral and Ethical Behavior

It takes a long time to get to the top, but it takes a short time to fall.

Chapter Objectives

When you have read this chapter you should be able to:

  • define morality and ethics,

  • identify differences between ethical and moral behaviors, explain ultimate objectives of moral and ethical conduct,

  • identify components of moral thoughts and behaviors,

  • identify components of ethical conduct,

  • describe moral idealism, realism, hedonism, and eudaemonism theories, and

  • describe ethical teleological and deontological theories.

Introduction

Life is not worth living without periodically questioning what excellence is. Intellectual questioning is the structural processing of an individual’s analytical mind to reach specific ...

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