I think that it is paramount‚ when discussing policies or programs that can have significant ethical consequences‚ that you rank the three P’s as follows: principle‚ power and profit. When these P’s aren’t taken into consideration‚ in the right order that is‚ we witness acts such as those mentioned in the lecture. This week’s lecture highlighted ’The Belmont Report’ which holds the ethical principles of respect for persons‚ beneficence and justice‚ as what should guide researchers ethically. When
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Act Utilitarianism is the treatment of each type of moral situation as a unique situation‚ therefore bring the maximum amount of happiness to everyone that is affected by the act. The agent in these types of situations must determine what is the right things that should be done for this exact situation in present time. The agent must not be bogged down by past experiences‚ as that will affect the judgment of what to do in this particular situation. While this type of utilitarianism is good in a variety
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The definition of virtue is the “quality of being morally good or behavior showing high moral standards” and‚ a person is either virtuous or not virtuous based upon how they perceive and react to the situations that life gives us. Aristotle talks a lot about this in Book II Nicomachean Ethics and he illuminates on the fact that the natural development of virtues is the key to achieving the goal of life‚ which is happiness. His view on ethics is also more practical meaning that it should be the acting
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The difference between teleological and deontological ethical systems‚ are teleological ethical system is based on the outcome of an act. If you do something that is bad as long as the outcome of that act is good then it is considered to be a good act. Now with the Deontological ethical system this system is base on the act it self. If you do something and you meant good doing it even if that act turns out bad‚ your act is still considered to be good. For example of Deontological if your friend
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In "Compassion and the Individual‚" Tenzin Gyatso‚ the fourteenth Dalai Lama‚ describes a good person as good mental and physical health care. what i take from this is that you have to put people before yourself and care about everyone not just yourself or your family. the physical part could mean you have excellent health and donate blood or organs to people‚ or become a organ donor after you have passed away. the mental also could mean that you have good mental strength and can be in certain situation
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Affirmative actions are the ‘social programs’ that help many individuals that were mistreated in the past in the form of injustice and inequality. These programs help them to recover with what all they went through in the past. Especially they were more helpful for the poor people‚ African-Americans and other disadvantaged minorities including women that were treated unfairly due to their differences such as their ‘age’ and ‘sex.’ To this‚ some people had argued that simple justice is requiring for
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My moral beliefs also correspond to the philosophy that is taught by Aristotle. In my opinion‚ happiness comes from within ourselves‚ not from our surroundings. I think this is a very important part of Aristotle’s teaching. I believe that in order to accept others and enjoy life‚ we must first learn to accept ourselves and be proud of who we are. If we are constantly ashamed with who we are‚ then we are not free to live a happy life. I think this is the main idea in Aristotle’s teaching. He
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With age comes wisdom. This is the mentality of numerous cultures who view the elder generation as moral. Does it take a lifetime to be viewed as virtuous? No‚ but it does take time to realize who possesses the virtuous trait and who merely accomplishes virtuous actions. It is imperative that persons demonstrate a virtuous character while living ethically among others. In the same aspect‚ one must distinguish a virtuous action from a virtuous character and determine that a morally right action
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One of the best and worse emotions that comes out of us is Pride. Introduction What is pride? Is it the quality or state of being proud? Pride is an inwardly directed emotion that carries two common meaning with a negative connotation‚ pride refers to an inflated sense of one’s personal status or accomplishments. Positively pride refers to a satisfied sense and actions‚ or toward a whole group of people‚ and can be used to praise one’s self‚ or a feeling of gratification and belonging. There
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1. Doesn’t the same hold for all the other things? Don’t you call shapes and colours admirable on the account of either some pleasure or benefit or both? 2. Doesn’t this also hold for sounds and all things musical? 3. And certainly things that pertain to laws and practices – the admirable ones‚ that is- don’t fall outside the limits of being either pleasant or beneficial. 4. Doesn’t the same hold for the admirability of the fields of learning‚ too? Conclusion. Whenever one of two admirable things
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