Does The End Justify The Means? by Mortimer J. Adler‚ Ph.D. Does the end justify the means? Can it sometimes be right to use a bad means to achieve a good end? Don’t the conditions of human life require some shadiness and deceit to achieve security and success? First‚ let’s try to understand the sense in which the word "justifies" is used in the familiar statement that "the end justifies the means." After that we can consider the problem you raise about whether it is all right to employ
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As stated by the text‚ the key aspects to utilitarianism are: 1. That ethicality is assessed on the basis of the consequences 2. The decision should produce the greatest amount net pleasure to the widest range of relevant stakeholders making society as a whole better off. The pleasure is often measured in terms of increasing happiness and/or reducing pain‚ where happiness and pain can be either physical or psychological. In Mattel case‚ there were many negative consequences resulting in
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and Global Justice Reader (7-25). Boulder‚ CO: Westview Press. Illies‚ C. (2011). How to think about global duties. In M. Boylan (Ed.)‚ The Morality and Global Justice Reader (103-126). Boulder‚ CO: Westview Press. Lillehammer‚ H. (2011). Consequentialism and global ethics. In M. Boylan (Ed.)‚ The Morality and Global Justice Reader (89-102). Boulder‚ CO: Westview Press. Singer‚ P. (1972). Famine‚ affluence‚ and morality. Philosophy and Public Affairs‚ 1(1)‚ 229-243.
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Executive Summary Table of Contents Introduction Freedom of speech means that a person or a body have a right to express them without any fear of suppression or penalty. It also means that there will not be any imposition of person’s speech. In today’s context‚ “Speech” is not limited to public speaking and it does include other forms of expression including social media. Australia does not have any explicit constitutional rights related to freedom of speech. However‚ parliamentarians are protected
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monetary aid to those plagued by the Pakistan floods. The facts that an Ethical Egoist would consider to be important are the consequences to him or herself because Ethical Egoism is a consequentialist moral theory that revolves around the self. Consequentialism contends that the right thing to do is determined by the consequences brought about from it (Class Notes‚ 10/05/2010). In this case‚ the morally relevant facts that the Ethical Egoist
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Is it Morally Right to do a Little Evil for a Greater Good? “It is the greatest good of the greatest number of people that is the measure of right and wrong.” -Jeremy Bentham Morality as a concept is analytically defined as “conformity to human discourse and conduct.” It incorporates something which I believe is based on an evolutionary construct. Morality has been an essential tool by which the survival of humanity is made more achievable. It has been well-documented that people in the
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The ‘Parable of the Sadhu’ discussed how a group hiking up the Himalayan Mountains encountered an ethical dilemma and how their decisions are similar to corporate ethics. This article presents a complex situation in which immediate action was necessary. In briefly‚ a group of multi-national individuals embarked on a trip of a life-time up the mountain. Along their journey up‚ Sadhu‚ an Indian holy man‚ was discovered naked and barely alive by the group of multicultural mountaineers. Each ethnic group
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(Boylan‚ 2009). According to Boylan‚ “utilitarianism is a theory that suggests that an action is morally right when that action produces more total utility for the group than any other alternative” (2009). 3 Utilitarianism is a form of consequentialism‚ meaning that the moral worth of an action is determined by its outcome. Utilitarianism suggests that an action is morally right when that action produces more total utility for the group than any other alternative (Boylan‚ 2009) Virtue ethics
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Reflection Paper – When did you change morally? What was it? 2 pages. Due Wednesday 2 Quizzes in the next two weeks Consequentialism Deontology Virtue Approaches * Goodness or badness of its action. * Puts a lot of pressure in term of thinking of our obligation * Utiliterist * Is happiness should be what we be after? * Whats a good? * Pleasure‚ Flourish‚ intellectual life * Think about policy of actions‚ principals‚ etc. * | * Trying to
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In Him Church Glendale‚ Arizona Non-Denominational Service Attendance Paper Religion 315 Non-denomination‚ the not denominational denomination. In the past couple of decades the rise in non-denominational churches has been increasing greatly and are said to be the second largest group of Protestants (Moore‚ 2011). It is said that most that break off and become apart of this fast growing belief come from a protestant upbringing. The study shows that more people are determining on where
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