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Glossary Chapter 10
Glossary terms for Business Ethics: An Interactive Introduction, Chapter 10
Term | Definition |
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Personal autonomy | Personal autonomy is the capacity to make authentic decisions about one’s own life. |
Moral autonomy | Moral autonomy is the capacity to govern oneself according one’s own ethical reasoning. |
Physical privacy | Physical privacy is the condition of freedom from intrusion by others. |
Informational privacy | Informational privacy is the condition of being able to control access by others to information about oneself. |
Coercive threat | A coercive threat is a morally unjustified declaration of the intent to cause harm. |
Lie | A lie is a linguistic communication which the perpetrator believes to be untrue and which the perpetrator intends to deceive his victim. |
Deception | Deception is a non-linguistic action or omission that the perpetrator intentionally uses to cause her victim to believe something false. |
Fraud | Fraud is obtaining a benefit from a victim by lying or deception. |
Oppressive conceptual framework | An oppressive conceptual framework is a shared set of strongly held and resilient beliefs about the world, values, and human nature that makes relationships of domination and subordination seem normal, natural, and unquestionable. |
Moral right | A moral right is a morally justified claim on others that imposes a correlative duty on them. |
Negative right | A negative right is a general right not to be interfered with. |
Negative liberty | A negative liberty is the right not to have one’s actions interfered with. |
Negative autonomy right | A negative autonomy right is the right not to have one’s decision-making interfered with. |
Positive autonomy right | A positive autonomy right is the right to assistance with one’s decision-making. |