The Harm Principle requires less from us because it does not ask us to question the value we put on different aspects of life like the Best Interest Standard. There are eight conditions that have to be meet in order for the harm principle to justify state intervention‚ these are typically objective. The Best Interest Standard makes it difficult to define what’s in the “best interest of the child‚ it also questions whether greater value should be based on the servile rate of the child or the side
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Lesson Plan Function: Give instruction Structure: Imperative verb forms Grade: 1st Level: Lower-Intermediate Aims: * To learn certain imperatives (touch‚ close‚ clap‚ tap‚ comb‚ open‚ listen‚show‚ nod ) * To learn body parts (nose‚ eyes‚ hands‚ toe‚ ears‚ hair‚ mouth‚ head‚ teeth) * To give instruction ACTIVITIES WARM-UP ACTIVITY Aim: * To get familiar with certain imperatives and body parts * To learn the pronunciation of verbs and body parts Procedure 1.The
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PHILISOPHICAL INQUIRY: What is philosophy? “The love of wisdom.” Metaphysics: the theory of reality. What is real? Epistemology: the theory of knowledge. What does it mean to “know?” Value-theory: the study of value. What gives something value...over something else? Logic: The principles of right reasoning. What principles do we use? All of these do not stand independent from each other...they all mix. September 25: Abstractions: CH9 Is Fido an abstraction? Dog is a category
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not only saves money‚ but it also bypasses the requirement of the FDA approval before any human testing can be performed. Using Kant’s theory for determining what actions are considered morally right and wrong‚ we can look into his Categorical Imperatives. The first CI states‚ “Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it would become a universal law”. (McPhee 1) The second CI states‚ “Act in such a way that you always treat humanity‚ whether in your own person
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could analyze this situation with two different ethical theories‚ by Kantian and/or Aristotelian views. The approach that we take with Kant’s views is strictly based on reason. The key factor in this situation with Kant would ask if we did this action without any thought. Because Kant heavily argues that a moral person has to be rational‚ the thought process that you went through to arrive to the action is needed and very important. With this in mind we need to look at the other key concepts of his
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however short‚ however unsatisfying‚ to save another child.” Which brings me to my first ethical argument‚ “It’s wrong to kill”. According to Immanuel Kant and his Kantian deontological theory‚ the principle of morality and our perfect duties‚ which one happens to be “it’s wrong to kill an innocent person”‚ comes from the categorical imperative. Kant states in the text on page 18 that‚
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Shooting Dogs Reflection The first Character that I will be discussing is Joe‚ who throughout the movie was “living out” the philosophies of Immanuel Kant. In one scene of the movie Joe demonstrates the Categorical Imperative. He acted as he would want others to act if they were in his situation. In this scene many people came to Joe asking for something to build a fire‚ in order for them to eat. Joe had‚ then went up to the room he was staying in‚ grabbed the bed frame‚ dresser
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Memo case study 1 To: Robert Smith (Executive Director-Food and Agriculture Organization of the United States) From: (Student at UMUC) Subject: Safety and quality concerns of Coke products in India. Date: June 07‚ 2013 Coca-Cola has considerably gained a large share of the market in the soft drinks industry. In the chase of expanding to foreign companies‚ it decided to explore India which presented great potential for revenues due to the growing population. The company built bottling
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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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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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