advance ethical practice in business‚ rather than aiming only at the characterization of perfectly ethical managers. Such a theory does not exist‚ but elements from the theory of justice by Amartya Sen‚ and the teachings of Socrates‚ John Stuart Mill and Kant can help me arrive at an idea of comparative justice: judgments that can help navigate the seas of ethical dilemmas in business‚ such as the one presently at hand. In the analysis presented in this paper‚ diagnosis of injustice‚ identification and
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Kant: The Humanity Formula "Few formulas in philosophy have been so widely accepted and variously interpreted as Kant’s injunction to treat humanity as an end in itself"(Hill‚ 38). Immanuel Kant’s views‚ as elucidated in his book‚ Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals‚ are based on the belief that "people count" by prohibiting actions which exploit other individuals in order for self-prosperity or altruistic ends. Ethics then‚ are confirmed by the dignity and worth of the rational agency of
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PHIL 1103: Ethics End-Term Exam Name:_____________________________________________ Class ___________ Date:____________ I. Identify the following kinds of theories of philosophical ethics. (1 point each for a total of 7 points) 1.) Moral goodness consists in the collective cultivation of the virtues‚ such as courage‚ honesty‚ justice‚ generosity‚ etc. in human agents. 2.) The moral goodness of acts (and their agents) is determined by the nature of those
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categorical imperative‚ his principle of universal law‚ and principle of humanity as ends in themselves are all ideas that he believes we must think about when talking about things such as divorce. He believed that our actions were divided into two types of duty: perfect
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Kant believes that freedom comes in obeying moral rules‚ rather than in resisting them‚ that the moral action to do is always the rational thing to do. Kant wants us to believe in practical reason and not pure reason. Unlike utilitarianism‚ Kant argues we are designed as duty followers‚ not for the pursuit of happiness‚ he thinks we are not fulfilled by primarily being happy. Our aim is not to attain happiness but rather‚ to do our duty. Kant believes that rationality is a definitive part of our
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conditions. Kant provides an example of a nonconsequentialist approach to ethics. He believed that moral rules could be known on the basis of reason alone‚ and said that we do not need to know the likely results of an action to judge it morally. Kant said that nothing was good in itself except for a good will. By will he meant the ability to act from principle; only when we act from a sense of duty does our act have moral worth. We determine our duty by the categorical imperative. An example
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Reflective Essay Kant ’s non-consequenlialist approach to ethics The name of Comm101 is Principle of Responsible Commerce. Before I enrolled the Comm101‚ I have no idea about principle of responsible commerce. At the lecture on week two‚ teacher had the presentation about this subject what the responsible commerce is. Generally speaking‚ the corporation has the responsible for animal‚ thing or person and so on. In my own understanding‚ to a person‚ if one person wants to have success on the commerce
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An Exposition of Kant’s‚ Arendt’s‚ and Mill’s Moral Philosophy Immanuel Kant adheres to Deontological ethics. His theory offers a view of morality based on the principle of good will and duty. According to him‚ people can perform good actions solely by good intentions without any considerations to consequences. In addition‚ one must follow the laws and the categorical imperative in order to act in accordance with and from duty. Several other philosophers such as Hannah Arendt discuss Kant’s moral
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Morality‚ Kant believes is founded on pure reason and his goals are to find a supreme principle of morality. He looks to find this supreme principle of morality by finding some criteria to sort maxims into two categories those who are morally okay and those who are not. Kant eventually finds the meaning of his supreme principle of morality‚ the rules include it is clearly synthetic‚ it is clearly a priori‚ and is therefore an example of pure reason. According to the book “maxims are rules that express
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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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