Business does not conduct itself as moral agents. The majority of Corporation uses Utilitarianism. This is the belief that regardless of the struggle or pain the outcome of a profit is more important. Corporations encourages Categorical imperatives. Categorical imperatives is the practices of if one person does what it takes then the other individuals should have the same mentality. Corporations tend to forget that people or employees are the same as CEO‚ COO‚ CFO‚ or as I call them the head of the
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the Pinto from the perspective of each of the moral theories is as following. Act utilitarianism says that Ford did not produce the greatest possible balance of cost-benefit calculation for everyone affected. According to the Kant’s categorical imperatives‚ Ford should not place a monetary value on a human life. Based on W.D.Ross’s 7 basic Prima Facie Duties‚ Ford failed to apply the duties of nonmalefience because they did not produce safe cars. Lastly‚ Ford is unethical when applying the ethic of
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The first of the formulas for the categorical imperative is the universalizability principle—“Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.” (Kant 30). By this principle‚ Kant places emphasis not on an action in and of itself‚ but the general
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In Immanuel Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785)‚ he explains the concept of Categorical imperative. This theory‚ states that universal moral law is applicable to all rational beings and that universal law has no dependence on individualized objectives. Humans have the ability to reason and establish what their moral duties are. He produces an argument for this assessment of morality by addressing the roles of means and ends. A mean is something that is done in order to achieve a
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being should have good intention to be morally right without having a good intention is not ethical moral. He had a great strength with moral theory‚ the categorical imperative that mean the principle that if a moral rule applies to someone‚ then it applies to everyone‚ and that an act is immoral if it cannot be made into a rule for all humankind to follow. Kant views don’t make exceptions for anything. I think that Kant would think that Socrates was a fool for not escaping prison because he believed
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consequences of that action. Deontology also considers the individual rights of those affected by an action. Kant agreed that we still have moral duties to ourselves and those around us‚ but believed that the categorical imperative is the foundation of duty. The categorical imperative‚ as defined by Kant‚ is a moral obligation that applies to all rational beings‚ with no qualifications. There are three laws regarding
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characteristics which are not found in the other paradigms. Below is a table which illustrate these paradigms and programming languages example. Table1. Imperative/Algorithm Declarative Object- Oriented Functional Programming Logic Programming Algol Haskell Prolog Smalltalk Cobol ML Simula Ado Miranda C++ C APL Java Imperative: The language provides statements‚ such as assignment statements‚ which explicitly change the state of the memory of the computer Functional: In this paradigm
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Therefore‚ this may attract more youngsters to move into the entertainment industries with false promises of being popular and successful. Besides that‚ occupations like film actors or singers‚ from my point of view‚ are by no means as essential and imperative to our society as some of others vocations such as teachers‚ doctors‚ or scientists‚ to name but a few. Just imagine‚ how can we survive in a society without any doctor when we get sick? Without teachers‚ how can we impart all the precious experiences
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Deontological ethics (Kant) key concept Categorical imperative- Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that is should become a universal law. What is the maxim that I am acting and should it be universal. (Apply it rationally) Ex. Person wants to cheat on the test based on the reason to pass and tries to make it a universal law‚ everyone cheats on the test. Borrowing- the maxim I will act on is lying saying that I can pay it back and then I would see if it could be universal
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30‚ 2014 Craig Hyde Assignment Imperative Paradigm The imperative programming paradigm is an abstraction of real computers which in turn are based on the Turing machine and the Von Neumann machine with its registers and store (memory). At the heart of these machines is the concept of a modifiable store. Variables and assignments are the programming language analog of the modifiable store. The store is the object that is manipulated by the program. Imperative programming languages provide a variety
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