Business Ethics Chapter 10 Glossary

A positive autonomy right is the right to assistance with one’s decision-making.

A negative autonomy right is the right not to have one’s decision-making interfered with.

A negative liberty is the right not to have one’s actions interfered with.

A negative right is a general right not to be interfered with.

A moral right is a morally justified claim on others that imposes a correlative duty on them.

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.

Fraud is obtaining a benefit from a victim by lying or deception.

Deception is a non-linguistic action or omission that the perpetrator intentionally uses to cause her victim to believe something false.

A lie is a linguistic communication which the perpetrator believes to be untrue and with which the perpetrator intends to deceive his victim.

A coercive threat is a morally unjustified declaration of the intent to cause harm.

Informational privacy is the condition of being able to control access by others to information about oneself.

Physical privacy is the condition of freedom from intrusion by others.

Moral autonomy is the capacity to govern oneself according one’s own ethical reasoning.

Personal autonomy is the capacity to make authentic decisions about one’s own life.