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Автор: Udo Schüklenk
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death, refused to part with his wealth25. Buffett isn’t alone in his quest. To give you just one further example, Charles Feeney26 gave his interest in a major chain of duty free stores to a charitable organization that he founded. His objective was, as he put it, to use his wealth to ‘help people.’ Since then the charity has disbursed several billion US dollars in a variety of countries. Feeney is proud not to own a house or a car. He travels mostly in economy class and makes a point of wearing a watch not worth more than about 15 US $.

      1.42 Another reason to be ethical appeals ironically to our enlightened self‐interest, so perhaps the economists mentioned earlier were not that far off. It has been suggested that we all would be better off if everyone behaved ethically. There is some truth in this, but it also seems to be the case that this claim can only be correct if many or most people behave ethically, otherwise it is quite likely that in an unjust society those behaving ethically would lose out to the unethical people around them. Perhaps that is one explanation for the enduring popularity of contractualist models in ethics. As we shall see in the next chapter, these are models that rely on us voluntarily agreeing to behave in particular, hopefully ethical ways in our interactions with each other. Contractualism with its appeal to our enlightened self‐interest relies on reciprocity and on our living up to the promises we make to each other. Much more could – and has been – said by way of answering the question why be ethical. If you want to read up on this surprisingly difficult question, you might try Singer (2011, Chapter 12).

       Questions

      1 What is your answer to the question of ‘why be ethical’? Did you find any of the answers given by ethicists persuasive?

      1 1 http://www.charitynavigator.org/

      2 2 http://www.iep.utm.edu/atheism/

      3 3 http:/www.iep.utm.edu/atheism/

      4 4 http:/plato.stanford.edu/entries/sophists/

      5 5 http:/plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato‐ethics/

      6 6 https://www.ama‐assn.org/delivering‐care/ethics/code‐medical‐ethics‐overview

      7 7 https://www.wma.net/what‐we‐do/education/medical‐ethics‐manual/

      8 8 http://www.who.int/en/

      9 9 https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/greek/greek_oath.html

      10 10 http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/theory‐bioethics/

      11 11 http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/euthyfro.html

      12 12 http://quran.com/

      13 13 http://www.bartleby.com/108/

      14 14 http://www.bhagavad‐gita.org/index‐english.html/

      15 15 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Can%2Btheology%2Bhave%2Ba%2Brole%2Bin%2B%22public%22%2Bbioethical%2Bdiscourse%3F‐a09330141/

      16 16 http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/public‐reason/

      17 17 http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral‐relativism/

      18 18 http://aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/how‐often‐do‐ethics‐professors‐call‐their‐mothers/

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