Cicero And The Ethics Of Honest Business Dealings

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Cicero and the Ethics of Honest Business Dealings by Randy Richards This article talks about different aspects of ethics. This article is found in the Online Journal of Ethics, vol. 1, no. 2. The author, Randy Richards, wrote this article about Cicero and his son. It first gives a description on Cicero’s son who talks about when his son went off to school and wasn’t excelling in academics like he should be. Cicero found himself having to write his son a letter in order to try and turn him back to the positive way in order for him to succeed. The letter he wrote to him began to influence other people also besides his son. The letter that he wrote was named On Duties. This manual is described to be a manual about correct moral behavior. People use this letter in order to show an example of ways to have honest business dealings. This author believes in his article that ethics is basically things that we ought to do. Then, the author uses Cicero as an example by saying that he focuses on expanding that definition by believing that it is what we ought to do when that particular thing is right and what is advantageous. The author expresses that it is quite obvious that the conflict in a person’s thinking would be whether to take the right way or the advantageous way. Some of the ways that Cicero thinks is simply from the ancient Greek philosophers and also some Christian thinkers. He feels that wrong doing damages a person’s character. He also goes into more depth by explaining when people gain advantage by wrongdoing what it really does to a person. Cicero goes in more depth about his point of view about these different situations. He discusses these matters by presenting them in three different cases. He tells the readers where these cases have originated from and what the cases are meant to get across to the readers. In the next section of the article, the author
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