Business Ethics
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Thread: Advertizing and Bad Faith
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Ethical critiques of advertising usually focus on issues such as product misrepresentation and the habits of overconsumption that advertizing helps promote. This chapter, however, focuses upon how advertizing promotes bad faith.
What is bad faith? How does bad faith relate to epistemic and ontological closure? What are epistemic and ontological closure?
How does bad faith manifest itself in how people are represented in advertizing? Why is this a problem? Can you give some examples of this?
Bad faith may also manifest itself in the pressure that employees feel to conform to their corporate brand. How so? Can you give some examples? Why is this a problem? Do more moral alternatives exist for employees, and if so what are they?