Deontological ethics or action-based theories mainly focus on the actions people implement. This allows people to break their bad habits and truly get rid of all the anger and hatred they contain. Deontologist believe that you should always do the right thing even if it results in pain rather than doing the wrong thing‚ it is your duty. One of history’s’ greatest philosophers‚ Immanuel Kant‚ was also a great believe of doing the right thing. His overall perspective within was that if you commit a
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Deontological comes from the Greek word deon meaning “duty‚ and logos meaning “science”. (www.britannica.com) Deontological theory claims that someone acts out of duty not because it makes you feel better. In this theory the duty is defined by many sources like religion‚ language‚ metaphysics‚ biology‚ culture and psychology. Immanuel Kant’s ethical theory is deontological. He perceives moral duties as the law‚ unchangeable and firm. (www.pages.drexel.edu) Teleological comes from the Greek word
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Ethical Theories Utilitarianism Utilitarianism is most often associated with Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) and John Stuart Mill (1806-1873). According to utilitarianism principle‚ a decision is ethical if it provides the greater utility than any other alternative decision. Thus the decision maker must evaluate each decision alternative‚ and then select the one that yields the greatest net utility (Fritzsche‚ 1997). There two types of utilitarianism‚ act and rule. Individual decisions are evaluated
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any transactions or payments intended for Wikileaks due to the organization’s possible illegal activities. This writing will focus mainly on whether or not Bank of America should refuse to process payments and do business with Wikileaks. The ethical issues involved will also be discussed as well as Bank of America’s exercise of a legal right. Finally‚ on a minor note‚ and in the interest of fair debate‚ the question of whether or not
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INTRODUCTION The first article ‘hundreds of economists agree Marijuana legalization could save taxpayers $13 billion per year’ by Jonathan Benson underlines a sensible ethical issue which legalizing a plant regarded as drug – though non-narcotic – in other to save and to make more money. In second article‚ “Pepsi’s ’Next’ generation - Less sugar!”‚ Scott Morefield highlights Pepsi’s procedures of making soft-drink –thereby making money – which harmful for the customers. On one hand‚ Pepsi gets
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THREE ETHICAL APPROACHES BASED ON VIRTUE‚ DUTY AND CONSEQUENCE Three ethical approaches have evolved as the focus of those who study moral philosophy: virtue ethics‚ duty ethics and consequential ethics. Virtue ethics‚ associating ethics with personal habits‚ is associated with Aristotle. Duty ethics is associated with religious beliefs‚ although Kant tried to create a system of duties independent of belief in God. Consequential ethics is associated with the quest for rationalism during the Enlightenment
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ethic deontological is that it pays no regard to consequences‚ as the name makes clear‚ coming from the Greek duty. For example stealing is always wrong. It makes no difference who does it‚ what the reasons were‚ what culture they live in o whether it took place hundreds of years ago. Stealing is just one of those things which is universally wrong and knows that even if they don’t obey the rules. Strengths Weaknesses . It provides a fixed ethical code to
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Ethics along with other sciences study these moralities. Ethical relativism and ethical absolutism are two views that many social scientists are studying. These scientists are especially fascinated by how different the moralities are in different societies. Here‚ it is important to understand how people behave or what people believe. The two views are very different from one another. The first view covered is ethical absolutism. Ethical absolutism suggests that there is only one correct moral standard
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no one’s around so I’ll just take it!” or do you think “Someone lost their money and I’m sure they would want it back”. Depending on your response it will show your moral ethical decision making leaning towards either absolutist or relativist. I tend to be an absolutist when faced with those decisions. Personally my ethical decision making falls under a moral code my parents instilled in my upbringing. Believing
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pipes in the way they’re using them). They can do whatever they want with them. They could just use their wires for their own purposes‚ e.g. hanging Christmas decorations or sending communications between their employees like an internal telephone system‚ or leave them unused. Instead‚ they reach mutually-consensual agreements with others (“customers”) whereby
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