describes what IS NORMATIVE: Evaluative‚ prescribes what SHOULD BE WHAT SHOULD I DO? EGOISM You should act in your own best interest Loading... UTILITARIANISM You should act to create the greatest good for the greatest number KANTIANISM You should do your moral duty by following the Categorical Imperative: •Form 1) Do only that which you would will to be a universal law •Form 2) Treat all people as ends‚ never as merely means VIRTUE ETHICS You should be a good (virtuous) person
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The Ethical Complications of Transparency on International Mobility at Solvay Group Chase Jeffrey Engel Georgetown University The Ethical Complications of Transparency on International Mobility at Solvay Group Solvay is an international business leader in the plastic‚ chemical‚ and pharmaceutical industries. With revenue exceeding $14 billion and over 28‚000 employees worldwide‚ the company has stamped its mark on the international market (Groysberg
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This essay is based on a case scenario and will critically analyse the ethical dilemmas that health and social care practitioner’s encounter with regards to: implications of consent‚ disclosure of personal information and maintaining patient confidentiality. The legal aspects of the scenario will be discussed in relation to the breaching of confidentiality and how the Data Protection Act (1998) can conflict with other legislation intended to protect patient’s rights. In addition it will identify
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Ethical decision making constructing the Wonthaggi Desalination Plant Executive Summary Water Forever is a media group writing for a business journal. The group has an interest in how desalination directly benefits the various stakeholders. The Victorian desalination plant (WDP) located in South Victoria off the coast line of Wonthaggi located has received much criticism. Many controversial and ethical issues have been expressed by various stakeholders. Despite these concerns‚ a decision has
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Summery The Variety of Principle-based Approaches No single approach can be called the principles approach. Criticism aimed at a deontological theory that is principle-based may not be effective against a consequentialist theory that is also principle-based. And yet the language of "principles" is sometimes mistakenly restricted to deontological theories‚ that is‚ to theories holding that some inherent or intrinsic features of actions‚ such as lying or truthfulness‚ make them right or wrong.
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This essay is going to look at euthanasia. This will include an analysis of the theories and principles which guide healthcare practice and decision making‚ a discussion of the relevant codes of professional practice and the legislation that may guide practice and decision making. This essay will also include an evaluation of the effects of the ethical issue for the individual concerned‚ their family‚ health care workers and for wider society. Ethics are the principles on individual uses‚ in order
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Applying virtue ethics to business: The agent-based approach By: John Dobson It ca be argued that the presence of what are in a slightly old-fashioned terminology called virtues in fact plays a significant role in the operation of the economic system. - Kenneth Arrow Introduction There are two basic approaches to integrating ethics in business: the action-based approach‚ and the agent-based approach. The traditional approach is action-based in that it focusses on developing rules or guidelines to
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Faculty of Commerce Faculty of Commerce - Accounting & Finance Working Papers University of Wollongong Year Accounting Theory and Practice: the Ethical Dimension M. Gaffikin University of Wollongong‚ michael gaffikin@uow.edu.au This working paper was originally published as Gaffikin‚ M‚ Accounting theory and practice: the ethical dimension‚ Accounting Finance Working Paper 07/04‚ School of Accounting Finance‚ University of Wollongong‚ 2007. This paper is posted at Research Online. http://ro
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Realism and neo-realism in international relations Ion Deaconescu The realist theory‚ founded by Hans Morgenthau‚ Arnold Wolfers‚ Kenneth Thomson‚ E.H. Carr and Georg Schwarzenberger‚ is based on the will to consider man and social relations‚ and most particularly political relations‚ a state of affairs rather than ideal. Not wanting to diminish the importance and necessity of the building of a pacifist and harmonious international system of relations‚ these thinkers reject the utopian conclusion
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When Is Stealing Ethical? | By: David Gebler | Sept/Oct 2007 -- The week of Sept. 10 brought shocking news to sport-crazed New England. The assistant of Bill Belichick‚ the super-star head coach of the New England Patriots‚ was caught videotaping defensive signals of the opposing team‚ against the rules of the National Football League. In a quick resolution‚ Belichick and the team were heavily fined and penalized with a loss of draft choices. Have the "selfless" team-spirited Patriots taken
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