Study Guide: Plato’s Ethics 1. The ancient Greeks regarded agent evaluation (evaluating someone’s moral character) as more fundamental than act evaluation (evaluating particular actions). The central ethical question they addressed was‚ “What sort of person should I be?” a. Eudaimonia is a central concept for the Greeks. It means living well‚ or having a good soul (i.e.‚ being the right sort of person). Attaining eudaimonia is the goal of their ethics. b. The reason we should strive to attain
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Running head: THE TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS STUDY The Tuskegee Syphilis Study Thomas Shaw Grand Canyon University PHL 305 7/25/2010 Introduction The Tuskegee Syphilis Study was developed to study the affects of Syphilis on adult black males. The intention of the study was to find ways to improve the quality of health in African Americans in the southern states. While the treatment phase of the program was beginning‚ America fell into the great depression and the benefactor‚ The Julius Rosenwald
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Deontological Ethical Analysis of Direct-to-Consumer Pharmaceutical Marketing In Deontological ethics‚ morality of an action is based upon the particular action’s adherence to moral laws independent of their consequences (DeGeorge 62). Direct-to-consumer marketing of pharmaceuticals has had heated debate with logical arguments from those for‚ and for those against allowing such practices to exist. I do not believe the marketing of the prescription medication to be solely unethical but more
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Ethics lo1 1.1background and development of theoretical ethical approaches Deontological Theory The deontological theory state that the consequences or outcomes of actions are not important‚ what actually matter is that the actions are morally justified. For example drunken driving is wrong‚ now if a person argues that he safely navigated his way back home and for that reason he/she should not be held accountable by law‚ they are wrong because their action was wrong in the first place and
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Business Ethics Case BUS 415 February 26‚ 2012 Business Ethics Case: Lawsuits In every business ethics lawsuit there are many questions that must be answered. The first question that a person or organization wanting to sue must ask is if he or she has standing to sue. According to this law “the plaintiff must have some stake in the outcome of the lawsuit” (Cheeseman‚ 2010‚ p. 43). If the plaintiff does not have this they cannot bring the suit to court. The next question that must be determined
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Business Ethics Case BUS/415 February 15‚ 2012 University of Phoenix Abstract This paper will examine the lawsuit filed by Shirley Jones against The National Enquirer‚ Inc.‚ a business based in Florida‚ and its president. The lawsuit‚ filed in California‚ was for alleged defamation‚ emotional distress‚ and invasion of privacy. In addition‚ this paper will examine what type of paper the National Enquirer is‚ along with the ethics behind trying to avoid the suit. Furthermore‚ the following
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The Mistral Fan Case By: Matthew Balkissoon Background Mistral was one of the prominent companies in the electrical manufacturing industry. They received numerous awards for the design on the Mistral Gyro Aire‚ which was introduced in 1968. In January of 1988‚ a house in Melbourne caught on fire killing two children‚ causing a public warning about the faulty fans by the coroner’s court. The fire started with a mistral fan‚ and an investigation following the incident exposed a history of poor
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Case Study Case 2.1 Hacking into Harvard The case “Hacking into Harvard” involves the applicants of some of the nation’s most prestigious MBA programs‚ who thought they had a chance to find out sooner what admission decisions the business schools made in their case. On Businessweek Online message board they saw instructions left by an anonymous hacker on how to get into schools databases and find out the decisions made. It was not hard – all schools used the same application software from Apply
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Inter American University of Puerto Rico CASE STUDY: TORTURE THE BOMBING SUSPECT? Source: Dr. Tom Kerns‚ Introduction to Bioethics‚ http://www.bioethicscourse.info/casesite/cs-torture.html GEPE 4040 Ethical Dimensions Contemporary Affairs Prof.: Miłosz Mariusz Jacko‚ Ph.D. At 9:30am a phone call was received at The Seattle Times from a person claiming to have placed a bomb at an undisclosed location in downtown Seattle. The caller indicated the device was set to detonate at 2pm the
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ENGINEERING ETHICS Concepts and Cases This page intentionally left blank g F O U R T H E D I T I O N ENGINEERING ETHICS Concepts and Cases CHARLES E. HARRIS Texas A&M University MICHAEL S. PRITCHARD Western Michigan University MICHAEL J. RABINS Texas A&M University Australia • Brazil • Japan • Korea • Mexico • Singapore • Spain • United Kingdom • United States Engineering Ethics: Concepts and Cases‚ Fourth Edition Charles E. Harris‚ Michael S. Pritchard‚ and
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