Research Article | Open Access
Evaluating Ethical Issues Related to Advertising
Amar Pratap Singh
Pages: 145-156
Abstract
Moral philosophers have long debated the relative merits of human action (actus
humanus) against that of other sentient beings or non-sentient beings. Since man is seen
as a thinking entity whose main nature is rationality, it follows that all human actions and
decisions must be the result of careful, introspective thought. Since human action is
predicated on rationality, it follows that human actions must be subjected to the scrutiny
of moral philosophy, the academic field concerned with the examination of the
wrongness and rightness of human acts. Given this context, it's difficult to absolve
advertising as an example of human behaviour from the need for ethical scrutiny. This
article examines the moral problems that might develop in both traditional media and
digital marketing. The motivation for exploring the moral dimensions of the advertising
phenomena and identifying its associated flaws and merits. To get there, I want to use
critical thinking techniques to analyse and evaluate the data I get from the library and the
internet
Keywords
Morality, Ethics, Issues, Advertising