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520 BCE
Confucius (520 BC)
Golden Rule: "Do not impose on others what you do not wish for yourself." The Golden Rule is a principle that business leaders can teach their teams about how to respect and treat each other well and it expects us to be fair, honest, generous, kind and all those things that are good according to ethical tradition. -
469 BCE
Socrates (469-399 BC)
People only did wrong when at the moment the perceived benefits seemed to outweigh the costs. Hence, the development of personal ethics is mastering what he called “the art of measurement,” correcting the distortions that skew one’s analyses of benefit and cost. -
428 BCE
Plato (428-348 BC)
Moral values are objective in the sense that they exist in a spirit-like realm beyond subjective human conventions -
384 BCE
Aristotle (384-322 BC)
“The Golden Mean Principle” states that to be happy, live a life of moderation. -
Thomas Hobbes (17th Century)
Moral Positivism - Hobbes’ moral positivism anticipates the chaotic outcome if laws are not abided. -
Jeremy Bentham (18th Century)
Utilitarianism - “Do whatever produces the greatest good for the greatest number.” -
Immanuel Kant (1788)
Deontology- The belief that there are essentially good and moral ideals to which we all have a duty, and that rational humans will inherently find reason in adhering to moral obligation, is defined by him as the “categorical imperative.”
