Ethical formalism is a deontological system because the important determinant for judging whether an act is moral is not its consequence, but only the motive or intent of the actor. According to Kant, the only thing that is intrinsically good is a good will. For example, a friend stops by another friend's apartment to visit and finds him struggling to breathe, and was grasping at his chest. He dials 911 and then having remembered a commercial for Bayer aspirin that mentioned taking an aspirin during a heart attack can help, she goes into her purse and gets an aspirin to give to her friend while they are awaiting the arrival of rescue crews. After giving him the aspirin, his symptoms worsen and by the time paramedics arrive, the man was dead. After autopsy, information was revealed that the man died from an allergic reaction to acedimenaphin, not because …show more content…
Now Ethics of care, Natural law, and Utilitarianism falls under the teleological system because it believes that if the action results in what can be considered as a good consequence, than it must be good and that the result will justify the reason that the act was committed in the first place. I would have to say that the Natural Law matches my beliefs, when someone does something to you or your family it is considered self-defense as long as they come at you first, so to me the natural law matches my