Moral compass is a feeling which serves or guides a person’s knowledge of right and wrong‚ sense or intuition of correct virtues‚ morals‚ and ethics. It assists in making complex ethical choices and promotes consistency in these choices (The center for defined ethics: The case for a defined moral compass‚ n.d.). An organization has to ensure they have established a moral compass for everyone to abide by. It acts as a moral framework. We can do this by using 1700’s German philosopher Immanuel
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more challenging and much real to think and deal with as a human being. Secondly‚ in my opinion this movie touches on a few of the main ethical theories we have discussed and learned about in class such as ethical egoism‚ utilitarianism‚ and virtue ethics. Throughout the movie‚ the characters are faced with incredibly difficult and ethical choices which‚ right or wrong‚ were made under extremely stressful and life or death situations. The unfathomable circumstances that the movie dives into puts
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9. Last accessed 16th Apr 2012. Collins‚ D. (1987). Aristotle and Business. Journal of Business Ethics. 6 (7)‚ p567-572. Available: http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=d49ec6df-ddf5-420b-9a9e-76e38b759ce9%40sessionmgr13&vid=16&hid=108. Last accessed 17th Apr 2012. [2]Kraut‚ R. (2012). Aristotle ’s Ethics. Available: http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2012/entries/aristotle-ethics/. Last accessed 15th Apr 2012. [6]Meikle‚S.(1994).Aristotle on Money. Phronesis. 39 (1)‚ p26-44
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of an oil company. The terrorist takes a plane full of people hostage and threatens to kill all the people on board unless you kill the CEO of the company. Utilitarian ethics might make the case that the greater utility to society would be for you to kill the CEO in order to save the hundreds of people on the plane. Kantian ethics says that the CEO has a moral right to life and killing him/her would be morally wrong. In this
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Aristotle was Plato’s prize pupil who discussed the types of moments where moral correctness may be applied to certain events‚ nature of virtues involved in the sound morality of humans as well as the ways to achieve happiness in one’s life. The overall question that Aristotle tends to ask himself and try to answer is the question that pertains to human character and personality‚ what do we as humans need to do‚ to be considered as a good person. Aristotle explained that every activity has a final
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TOPIC: ETHICS OF ADMINISTRATION (POAD 8137) Student name: Hung Tran Duy Student ID: 2156098 Question 3: Watch one of the videos (detailed below) on whistle blowing and critically analyze it using the ethics toolkit. Choose one of the videos to discuss critically with reference to ethical frameworks. The video “The totally avoidable a tragedy” (ABC 2009) are chosen to study. I. INTRODUCTION The video ’A totally avoidable tragedy’ (ABC 2009) presents the situation of the deaths of five local people
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BUS 1403 Business Ethics and Corporate Governance. Worksheet – 20 February 2013 Please complete the following tasks: By looking at the online text (BB Learn‚ Course content‚ Week 1‚Text/Readings‚ Textbook Chapter 1pdf) complete the following exercise: Deontology – Underlying rules (page 14 of online text) 1. Which person is generally regarded as being the founder of deontology? Deontology has its foundations in the works of Immanuel Kant 2. Explain what is meant by the Golden
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Ethical Theories- Pros and Cons Katherine Bryson ETH/316 October 15‚ 2012 Mark Cobia Ethical Theories- Pros and Cons The similarities between the virtue theory‚ the utilitarianism theory and deontological theory are that they all support good and responsibility. Virtue theory not only concentrates on how an individual acts but also what a person should strive to be‚ for example a religious figure may personify perfection when in the public when they really should strive for that perfection
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four subjects to analyze some of the characteristics of different ethical perspectives. The four ethical subjects represent “CORE” which includes: Character‚ Obligation‚ Results‚ and Equity. The first subject character‚ known as the virtue theory‚ is based on personal virtue. The second subject is obligation‚ which is known as deontology and‚ is based on a sense of duty to do what is right. The third subject is a result‚ which is known as utilitarianism‚ is based on the consequences of actions taken
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Citations: 1. Nicomachean Ethics‚ Book I 2. http://www.jcu.edu/philosophy/gensler/ms/arist-00.htm 3. http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-21‚pageNum-9.html 4. http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/a/aris-pol.htm 5. http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/chapters/s7751.html 6. http://www
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