Committing Adultery A marriage is full of moral ethics that should be followed. Kant would have agreed with me that we have moral duties to ones self and others. A marriage is committing moral thoughts‚ words‚ and actions to yourself and your spouse. Kant believed in treating other people the way you wish they would treat you. Never treat other people as if they were merely things. The formula of humanity states that we should treat people as an end and never as a means to an end. In committing
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alone.[11] We turn now to a second main question about inequality that arises when we notice that outsiders also have interests‚ which sometimes compete with the interests of leaders and followers. Liberal moral theory‚ of which utilitarianism and Kantianism are paradigm examples‚ is committed to the claim that individuals count equally‚ regardless of group membership. On these theories at least‚ it is hard to see how leaders and followers might be justified in putting their interests and projects ahead
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Solongo Otgonbayar Professor Myra Bates Article Review 2 October 17‚ 2014 Samsung’s Unethical Behavior The article that I chose to review was titled‚ “Samsung ’s Unethical Behavior More Diversified Than Its Smartphone Lineup.” The article focused on the unethical practices that are currently practiced by South Korea electronic giant Samsung. Samsung has been accused of refusing to release information in regards to worker health. There have been documented cases of leukemia and non-Hodgkin ’s
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Question : Ethical theories are useful in guiding company decisions. Based on your research‚ which ethical theory is most useful in guiding company decisions and why? To majority of the people‚ it is not difficult to draw a clear line between what is good and bad. The problem however lies on who is to make these judgments and on what grounds should we accept these justifications. When associating this concept with decision making in organisation‚ it highlights the importance of employees displaying
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or that which accentuates the consequences of actions (consequentialism).” [ CITATION Ros12 \l 1033 ]. There have been many different theories of virtue that have come to play over the years. In today’s society‚ the most popular theories are Kantianism and consequentialism. These two theories incline to concern with the categorizing of actions as either right or erroneous. “Although virtue ethics lacks in popularity‚ many people still cerebrate it is indispensable. Virtue ethics requires us
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MGT 3211 Section 1 March 12‚ 2014 The Ponzi Scheme Fraud from Stanford Financial Group Upon finding a discussion for a posing ethical dilemma in business today‚ I came across a recent development to an ongoing issue in both national and fairly local news. The Stanford Financial Group‚ which is an expanded financial firm based nearby in Houston‚ has been under investigation for “a massive ongoing fraud” using a Ponzi scheme in which investors are paid back their own money
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: A growing issue in our society today is late-term abortion. A mother and baby develop a very emotional connection through pregnancy‚ which can leave a mother feeling very devastated if she pursues this act. Since late-term unborn babies begin to develop a sense of consciousness‚ there is no reason that they should not be treated as people and be acknowledged as having human rights. In a situation where two people’s benefits are conflicting‚ this right must be deliberated and equivalent. I
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With any approach to ethics there will be conflicts‚ ambiguity or in some cases inconsistency. However in all approaches to ethics‚ such as Kantianism‚ Utilitarianism or in this case virtue there will be logical‚ rational and sound decisions made and outcomes produced. Virtue ethics is influenced heavily by Aristotle whose Nichomachean ethics was based on the teleological idea that nature is for a purpose i.e. Sex is for reproduction. One clear advantage of the virtue ethics system is that as
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Abortion as a Health Ethics Issue There has been an ongoing controversy surrounding the moral and legal status of abortion. The two main groups involved are the pro-choice movement (the right of women to choose whether to keep the fetus) and the pro-life movement (the right of the unborn child to be born). According to Don Marquis‚ abortion is seriously morally wrong because it is an act of killing a being with a right to life and killing a being with a right to life is seriously morally wrong
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Case Facts: • WikiLeaks is an international‚ online‚ self-proclaimed not-for-profit organisation that publishes submissions of undisclosed and secret information‚ news leaks‚ and highly classified media from anonymous sources and whistleblowers. • The head of the online organisation‚ which was founded in 2006‚ is Australian born‚ Julian Assange. • Its purpose is to provide whistleblowers with a domain to publish their case to the public and preserve their identity (Lennon 2010). • Exposes various
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