made from a rational or logical perception when the decision could negatively affect the decider. For example if an officer lies about his son committing an act that is morally wrong when being asked to explain the incident. This is related to consequentialism‚ because the officer lying kept his son from being in more trouble‚ which could be considered a morally good act from producing positive consequences. On the other hand the officer did not perform his duties of deontology and regularianism‚ so
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well- of being of others because they are stealing food or money jut to feed their starving family‚ and even if it does in the end promote such a good. Absolutist theory stands in contrast to other categories of normative ethical theories such as consequentialism‚ which holds that the morality of an act depends on the consequences or the context of the act. It may also be
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John Gross PHIL 102 1. Utilitarianism is moral theory that tries to lay a set of rules that you should follow to achieve the most good or pleasure from any one act. Two popular proponents of this systems are philosophers by the name of Jeremy Bentham and James Mill. They both have different ideas for how one should go about the use of utilitarianism to achieve the greatest happiness. Bentham’s approach is often called quantitative utilitarianism in which Bentham came up with an idea called
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Anthony B. Fielding Utilitarian‚ Deontological‚ and Virtue ethics The concept of utilitarianism is closely related to the philosophy of consequentialism. Basically this means that the moral and ethical value of a person’s action should be judged by the consequence of that action. Utilitarianism is believed to be the most important of the three ethical theories because it has helped shape our world’s politics‚ economics‚ and public policy. This ethical theory explains to us that we can
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most critical issues or related solutions‚ such as censorship and key word bidding promotion system. By implementing four normative ethics theories into Baidu’s business ethics analysis‚ it suggests that Baidu’s business ethics is primarily consequentialism ethics oriented‚ and also lacks of consideration for its stakeholders. In order to make real improvements on CSR and to be respected‚ Baidu needs to face squarely to its ethics and stakeholder management issues. Table of contents Executive
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Aristotelianism fell out of favour in the West. Virtue ethics returned to prominence in Western philosophical thought in the twentieth century‚ and is today one of the three dominant approaches to normative ethics (the other two being deontology and consequentialism).” “A system of virtue ethics‚ having offered an account of the good life‚ then identifies those habits and behaviours that will allow a person to achieve that good life: these habits and behaviours are the virtues (arête). In the course of
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ABSTRACT: This paper will describe the four different types of ethical perspectives. We will start by describing my ethical perspective; which I found out to be "character" from my results on the Ethical Awareness Inventory Assessment. We will then evaluate the four types of ethical perspectives. Which include character/virtue‚ obligation/deontology‚ results/utilitarianism‚ and lastly‚ equity/relativism. Then we will conclude with a brief discussion on issues one is likely to encounter dealing with
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negative and positive duties; we have a negative duty not to harm other people and a positive duty to feed the hungry. Foot also says that we should reject the theory of Consequentialism which is a very simplistic view of what is right and wrong. In fact‚ that is why many people support it‚ because of its simplicity. Consequentialism states that all that matters to the rightness or wrongness of actions is the goodness or badness of the consequences. In simpler terms‚ an action is permissible or “good”
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The decisions the active agents made influenced the broad innocent passive agents – the consumers who bought the contaminated products. I would then ex amine these decisions by analyzing them through two ethical models: Consequentialism and Rawlsian Liberalism. In Consequentialism model‚ the agents would consider only the consequences of their actions. What would be the consequences if Maple Leaf adopts a s afer “standard” to test potential food contamination? 1 For the bright side‚ though
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After that‚ I will be applying the theory Consequentialism. Before I begin I will define each principle. Autonomy refers to the client’s freedom of decision-making. While beneficence means “doing good for the client.” Moreover‚ Non Maleficence means “doing no harm to clients.” In addition‚ fidelity means
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