of an oil company. The terrorist takes a plane full of people hostage and threatens to kill all the people on board unless you kill the CEO of the company. Utilitarian ethics might make the case that the greater utility to society would be for you to kill the CEO in order to save the hundreds of people on the plane. Kantian ethics says that the CEO has a moral right to life and killing him/her would be morally wrong. In this
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Aristotle was Plato’s prize pupil who discussed the types of moments where moral correctness may be applied to certain events‚ nature of virtues involved in the sound morality of humans as well as the ways to achieve happiness in one’s life. The overall question that Aristotle tends to ask himself and try to answer is the question that pertains to human character and personality‚ what do we as humans need to do‚ to be considered as a good person. Aristotle explained that every activity has a final
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TOPIC: ETHICS OF ADMINISTRATION (POAD 8137) Student name: Hung Tran Duy Student ID: 2156098 Question 3: Watch one of the videos (detailed below) on whistle blowing and critically analyze it using the ethics toolkit. Choose one of the videos to discuss critically with reference to ethical frameworks. The video “The totally avoidable a tragedy” (ABC 2009) are chosen to study. I. INTRODUCTION The video ’A totally avoidable tragedy’ (ABC 2009) presents the situation of the deaths of five local people
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BUS 1403 Business Ethics and Corporate Governance. Worksheet – 20 February 2013 Please complete the following tasks: By looking at the online text (BB Learn‚ Course content‚ Week 1‚Text/Readings‚ Textbook Chapter 1pdf) complete the following exercise: Deontology – Underlying rules (page 14 of online text) 1. Which person is generally regarded as being the founder of deontology? Deontology has its foundations in the works of Immanuel Kant 2. Explain what is meant by the Golden
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Ethical Theories- Pros and Cons Katherine Bryson ETH/316 October 15‚ 2012 Mark Cobia Ethical Theories- Pros and Cons The similarities between the virtue theory‚ the utilitarianism theory and deontological theory are that they all support good and responsibility. Virtue theory not only concentrates on how an individual acts but also what a person should strive to be‚ for example a religious figure may personify perfection when in the public when they really should strive for that perfection
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four subjects to analyze some of the characteristics of different ethical perspectives. The four ethical subjects represent “CORE” which includes: Character‚ Obligation‚ Results‚ and Equity. The first subject character‚ known as the virtue theory‚ is based on personal virtue. The second subject is obligation‚ which is known as deontology and‚ is based on a sense of duty to do what is right. The third subject is a result‚ which is known as utilitarianism‚ is based on the consequences of actions taken
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Citations: 1. Nicomachean Ethics‚ Book I 2. http://www.jcu.edu/philosophy/gensler/ms/arist-00.htm 3. http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-21‚pageNum-9.html 4. http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/a/aris-pol.htm 5. http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/chapters/s7751.html 6. http://www
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Approaches XXX XXXUniversity Instructor: XXX Course Name: XXX Date: XXX This paper summarizes each of ethical approaches‚ especially the Grand Principles‚ Nash’s Covenantal Business Ethic‚ Damon’s Four Dimensions of Business Morality‚ and Hill’s (2008) Christian Ethic for Business. Also‚ this paper critiques each of them through analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of approaches. Finally‚ the most favor approach is provided at the end. The Grand Principles which
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In the 1940s the United States was getting ready to get involved in World War II and needed to set an example of good ethics on a global stage to help bring. The book The Boys of Pointe Du Hoc written by‚ Douglas Brinkley has many examples of ethical decision making that was critical at the time in order for the United States to bring peace to World War II. For instance the author is re-establishing already known information but with a new style of how he obtained the information‚ which was straight
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An Ethical Defense of Same-Sex Marriage (I am currently on an Ethics Bowl team and have compiled an Ethical defense of Same-Sex Marriage) So the main issue that is often brought up in discussions of Same-Sex Marriage is the right of the individual versus morality. The claim is that we must‚ as public citizens‚ decide between the two. Do we side with the right of the individual and support Same-Sex Marriage or do we side with morality and oppose it? I attest that the two are‚ in fact‚ not mutually
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