John Gross PHIL 102 1. Utilitarianism is moral theory that tries to lay a set of rules that you should follow to achieve the most good or pleasure from any one act. Two popular proponents of this systems are philosophers by the name of Jeremy Bentham and James Mill. They both have different ideas for how one should go about the use of utilitarianism to achieve the greatest happiness. Bentham’s approach is often called quantitative utilitarianism in which Bentham came up with an idea called
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Hypothetical Paper Hypothetical Working Agreement Paper KristinaMarie Fry University of Phoenix BSHS/322 Hypothetical Working Agreement Paper Resource Section 1: Client Information Scenario: Freydia is a 27-year-old mother having been on crack cocaine for four years. Her offspring‚ ages seven and nine‚ have been taken away from her care by Child Protective Services and are presently residing with her mother. Freydia seeks admission to the drug program
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ISSUE/S: |The student has accurately and |The student has identified all of |The student has identified most but |The student has identified some of |The student has failed to identify | |Identify the legal issues in the hypothetical |succinctly identified all of the |the issues and sub-issues |not all of the issues and sub-issues|the issues and sub-issues |any of the issues and sub-issues | |Separate major issues into a number of |issues
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immigrants to use legitimate identification to receive similar benefits of those who are citizens of that country. The framework developed in this paper incorporates three main ingredients‚ firstly Kant’s first and second formulation of categorical imperatives as well as duty‚ secondly the social contract theory; primary the state of nature‚ and lastly honesty. Exposition: Admittedly‚ an ongoing controversial issue‚ especially with the newly elected president Trump is undocumented immigrants. This
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THE ETHICAL IMPERATIVE Today’s businesses are entrenched in a great conflict. The interests of the stockholders and the interests of the populace at large seem to be in constant turmoil. On one hand‚ stockholders desire profit for themselves‚ and on the other‚ the general population does not care to be exploited by those whose sole motive is profit. This is a conflict because those who buy a business’s products tend to be in the general public‚ and they have the ability to make or break a
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a) Explain with examples Kant’s theory of Categorical Imperative Kantian ethics is a deontological‚ absolute theory proposed by Immanuel Kant in the late 1700’s. Kant taught that an action could only count as the action of a good will if it satisfied the test of the Categorical Imperative. The categorical imperative is based around the idea to act solely for the sake of duty. For example‚ you should share your sweets because it is a good thing to do; not because it makes you feel good. Consequentially
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Rahman Syed 11/6/14 Criminal Procedure‚ Section 2283; Professor Passante 4th Amendment Paper Hypothetical Fact Pattern #1: In this scenario‚ we see that Rosa‚ who works at a private information technology company called Acme Systems‚ is fired from her job. Her termination was due to the marijuana found in her purse by Bob‚ an Acme security guard who wanted to detect and prevent drug use in the workplace. The issue in question is that if Rosa’s 4th Amendment rights had been violated. The 4th Amendment
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FUNCTIONAL IMPERATIVES Within society is the essence of established institutionalized foundations‚ but not limited to specific associations such as prisons or schools. An institution is much wider in its comprehensiveness and bearing than an individual or organization. Categorized as social behaviour‚ institutions channel practices in the crucial areas of social life. “Institutions provide procedures through which human conduct is patterned‚ compelled to go‚ in grooves deemed desirable
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came up with a set of imperatives (commands or advice) for one to follow. His imperatives consist of Hypothetical and Categorical. Hypothetical imperatives consist of problematic imperatives and assertoric imperatives‚ which hypothetical imperatives say that an action is only good for some purpose. An example of a Categorical Imperative is apodeictic. Categorical imperative is a single moral command that has no other purpose or without any other end. A problematic imperative tells you how to achieve
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1 The Fresh Imperative – Executive Summary 4 In the rapidly changing Asian markets‚ a retailer’s Fresh Food offer is one of the most critical success factors‚ and a key competitive differentiator. Fresh Food Categories‚ such as vegetables‚ fruits‚ poultry‚ fish and meat are the critical store traffic and shopping frequency drivers that attract consumers and create additional opportunities for retailers to engage with their customers in other grocery categories. To get their Fresh Food offer
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