Socrates & Ethics

When auditing a publicly held company, auditors need to observe principles. The ethical principles of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Code of

Financial reporting practices and ethics have manifested an ocean of literature. This has mainly come from organization theorists that address accounting practices. These theorists and professionals have given fresh accountability measures. Their ideals give this industry the tools needed to survive, grow and prosper. The way an organization prepares and reports its financial information and handles its daily operations is in essence financial practices, and in the way it accomplishes this reveals their ethical standards to which they adhere to. This paper will discuss the financial practices, ethical standards, and

Accountants are held to a higher ethical standards and they must performed their duties in compliance with standards or ethical values of honesty, integrity, objectivity, due care, confidentiality, which must be fully committed to. They must put clients or public interest first before their own. They must have and ethical values and maintain those values way beyond what the society or the company’s code of ethic. It is important that accountants’ behavior or ethical values is in conformity with the

In the beautiful city of Athens, Greece, there was a philosopher Socrates, and his "Socratic method," was laid on the groundwork for the Western systems of logic and philosophy. Socrates did believe that he didn't know anything, and It was because of this that the Oracle told Socrates that he was wise and that he should seek out the 'wise men' to hear what they had to say. So Socrates began to travel to different parts of Greece to question the suppose 'wise’ men to see if they really knew all the answers to life. The youth laid their eyes on Socrates since he possessed a different way of thinking and living. His unique method of questioning and insulting was believed that he

Milgram assumes that the individuals are surrendering their suppositions and individual great regards to the authority figure. Standard people are most likely going to take after solicitations given by a master figure, even to the level of executing an unadulterated individual. It was his willingness to see how far people will go when it came down to listen to authority. How obedient will they be? What if they are put in a situation they are not comfortable with? Will they still be willing to obey? And if they do, what will be their limit and how will they react to the authority? Accommodation to master is imparted within each one of us from the way we are raised.

To put it frankly, Socrates is guilty of the charge of impiety, which he has been so justly accused of. I am writing to affirm and support this formal accusation of impiety against the infamous philosopher because his guilt in this charge is almost as clear as the importance of this matter and the need for justice to be carried out. Impiety, as I and my fellow Athenians understand it, is to do what is pleasing to the gods, as one is able in one’s own life. However, as it has been noted, not all the gods will agree on what is pleasing, and so I argue that it is more than that. To be pious means to have respect for the gods – to honor their authority, and to be humble in their power.

In 445a-b, Socrates convinces Glaucon that being a just person is desirable in itself and profitable for the individual, while it is less valuable for the individual to live in unjust ways. Socrates defends the value of being a just person by arguing that as long as the individual fulfills its proper roles, he or she is living justly— which leads to a life worth living. Specifically, Socrates believes there are certain parts of the soul that have roles to be satisfied in order to live justly. He claims that when these parts of the soul work together, there is an internal unity of the individual that will lead to a healthy condition of the soul, which is the most valuable way to live for the individual (443e). Although Socrates thoroughly explains

The trial of Socrates took place in 399 B.C.E., five years after the Peloponnesian War ended and at a time of great turmoil in Athens. A scapegoat for the loss in war was needed and Socrates was the prime candidate. However, Socrates’ “apology” is far from apologetic, rather; he defends his actions. At one point, Socrates even implies that he is a better person than most because he possesses self-knowledge, whereas many of the high-ranking members of society do not. Socrates believes self-knowledge makes him a better because he neither ignorant nor arrogant when having self-knowledge and he is also serving the gods when he attempts to have others see their lack of self-knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Friedrich, Germany in 1844, later died in 1900. Nietzsche literature and history philosophy was considered to be worst sophist. All moral philosophers have been soporific, misleading. In other words, do not believe in just anything a “God” tell you because there is no God. Nietzsche was a moral theorist as new moral theorist many try to adopt moral theory and add science aspects. But not consider idea of conscience in same way as former moral theorist have in the past. Being a moral theorist in regards to actually raises doubt that there is such thing as morality. There are two known moralities, Master and Slave morality. These moralities came based on what Nietzsche said, “to be a human is to be a beast, and tube a superior beast, a person must be able to attack, control, happiness, exploit the weak. All societies have a class and within the class, known as ruling caste. The ruling caste originated from barbarian caste in state of nature. Where violence and power is wanted greatly. The hire you are in the caste you are considered to have more power, or in Nietzsche case you have more knowledge. Having more knowledge is the only way a person can reach true happiness. Nietzsche created these steps to Astuteness moral castration. The steps consist of making virtue the goal, set up standards for the virtue, opponents are ungodly, suffering

Ethics are crucial to the accounting profession and the business world, so choosing an ethics system to base your moral decisions on is extremely important. Accountants and all business professionals will be confronted with moral dilemmas on a daily basis. Being strong in your faith and knowing what you believe in will help you to always make the right decision. Based on this reasoning, this essay will explain why deontology is the best ethics system for the accounting profession.

Mythic and epic are about religion and being a hero. Philosophy lead to the wisdom of a hero. Pre- socratic where people of space and detected dogma about injury that connected to an essence. Socrates was a philosopher who was 70 years old and had a well know method. Socrates looked beyond the just and the unjust, which lead the Athens to have a didactic approach to Socrates logic and makes Plato discuss Socrates death. Through his ability to question and make people identify their own ignorance, Socrates inspires us to apply different methods to them in to us for the same reason, regardless of going through hate it’s better to learn in a clueless way, in order to not get corrupted and later help make better sense of the world.

He was just a man searching for the answer to the question of who he was. People decided, of there own free will that they would come and listen to his conversation. He says this in Plato’s Apology, “If anyone, young or old, desires to listen to me when I am talking and dealing with my own concerns, I have never begrudged this to anyone." He did not ask them to join him; each person had a choice in the matter. Socrates is not responsible for other people’s action nor is he responsible for what people learn from his questions. He himself claimed not to know any thing. You can not teach some one something you yourself do not know.

This chapter focuses on what morality is. Socrates defines it as “how we out to live” and why. However, there are many rival theories against the Socrates’ idea. In fact, it is hard to define morality. So in this chapter, the authors utilize three real examples which are about handicapped children: baby Theresa, conjoined twin Jodie and Many, and Tracy Latimer.

Ethical issues have greatly transformed in our lives since the great Enron, Xerox and other huge corporations proposed big profits showing earnings of billions of dollars and yet in reality facing bankruptcy. These corporations faced great trouble with the federals and state for manipulating financial statements. But not only corporations can be blamed on this, accounting firms were involved in this as much as the corporations were. With the business stand point, ethics comprises of principles and standards that guide behavior. Investors, traders, customers, and legal system determine whether a specific action is ethical or unethical. Ethical issue is a vast subject, but we will look at the niche

Socrates faces a lot of opposition from the public because of the nature of his teachings as he attempts to demonstrate the value of knowledge and justice. In his apologia, having been charged with “corrupting the young” (Aen. 24b), Socrates questions Meletus mercilessly, forcing him into contradicting himself and leaving him speechless with “nothing to say” (Apo. 24d). Much of Socrates’ teachings revolve around making others aware of their own ignorance, as he does with the politician, “[trying] to show him that he supposed he was wise, but was not” (Apo. 21c). Plato’s Symposium recounts the speech of Alcibiades in which Alcibiades describes “what an extraordinary effect [Socrates’] words always had” (Sym. 215d). According to Alcibiades, Socrates “makes it seems that his life isn’t worth living” (Sym. 216a). These kinds of lessons