Question

Johan is the manager of CycleUp and has agreed to build a new manufacturing plant in Argentina. He realizes this decision will cause him to shut down a small plant in Ohio, but he decides that since the new facility will cut his operating costs in half, that is worth more than closing a plant employing ten people. Which philosophical approach to ethics does this demonstrate

Answer 1

Answer: Utilitarian

Explanation:

From the question, we are informed that Johan is the manager of CycleUp and has agreed to build a new manufacturing plant in Argentina and that he realizes this decision will cause him to shut down a small plant in Ohio, but he decides that since the new facility will cut his operating costs in half, that is worth more than closing a plant employing ten people

This is referred to as utilitarianism.

Utilitarianism seeks to make the society as a whole better even though it might comes as an expense to a few individuals for the larger society to enjoy.