Moral Reasoning Guidelines Making good moral decisions is difficult and part of the difficulty is that we do not live in a vacuum. Making moral decisions are complex and are connected to different contexts. You are being asked to do an ethical analysis as compared to a political‚ religious‚ or economic one. Your research topic or case study focuses on a moral dilemma and probably has several different proposals or solutions to your dilemma.. For our purposes‚ it is not so important which moral
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Autonomy is the ethical principle that competent persons should be allowed self-determination unless proven otherwise incompetent. The decision to prove someone as incompetent is easily determined if the patient is unconscious or an infant (VHE‚ pg 107). But what if the ’child’ is 12 years old and has expressed wisdom beyond her years? As a society we determine that a persons below the age of 18 are lacking sufficient autonomy for a range of publically significant decisions unless proven otherwise
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Utilitarianism is concerned about the results of an action‚ while Kantian ethics is focused about the moral duties‚ Virtue ethics on the other hand place an emphasis on the development of a good moral character. Unlike the first two ethical theories‚ virtue ethics is not a theory about what makes an action right. It answers the question‚ “What kind of individual should I be?” and “What kind of characters are necessary to live a virtuous life? Virtue ethics can be tracked back from the ancient Greek
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Chiquita in Columbia I. Overview of the Issue In 1997‚ executives at Chiquita Brands Banadex were faced with a very serious ethical dilemma‚ which would severely impact the future of the company. The executives were confronted by the leader of one of the most powerful terrorist groups in the state of Columbia and the company had a significant choice to make; Chiquita could pay the terrorist group a penny for every dollar of bananas exported in return for the safety of their employees or they
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advertising) are morally wrong’. In my response to this article‚ I will adopt an ethical viewpoint towards my analysis of various points raised by Crisp. Viewing Crisp’s argument from a Kantian perspective‚ the deprivation of autonomy stemming from persuasive advertising would be deemed as unethical. From a Kantian standpoint‚ this is undesirable as it does not fulfil the three categorical imperatives. Under the principle of universality‚ it should be said that many people would not wish to be subject
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Teleological Ethics = Consequentialist Ethics Morality of an act is based on the outcome or consequence of the act Deontological Ethics = Non - Consequentialist Ethics Morality of an act is based in the act itself. Types of Teleological Ethics 1. Utilitarianism – Utilitarian moral theory is classical utilitarianism‚ 2. Varieties of ancient Greek virtue ethics – Aristotle Ethics is an Example a. The goal of ethics is to explain how one achieves the good life for human beings. There are
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BUSN 6540 LEGAL & ETHICAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS INDIVIDUAL ETHICS ANALYSIS TO: XXXXXXXX FROM: XXXXXXXXXX RE: Business Ethics Analysis: Employment of Underage Workers by Nike DATE: August 28‚ 2014 I. FACTS For decades international companies‚ such as Nike Corporation (Nike)‚ have been highly criticized for employing children under the age of 18 in overseas factories‚ resulting in an ethical dilemma. Nike manufactures a wide-range of sports products including shoes‚ apparel‚ and
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The object of this essay is to establish whether there is an ethical theory that can be successfully applied to business organisations. In order to answer this question‚ it is necessary first to define the major ethical theories‚ which are utilitarianism‚ deontology and virtue ethics‚ before determining whether there are any other options. After that‚ the ethical needs‚ problems and limitations of work organisations will have to be examined so that the different theories can be evaluated in this
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Plato b) Medieval (1) St. Anselm (2) St. Augustine c) Modern (1) Descartes (2) Leibniz (3) Spinoza 3) Empiricists a) Ancient (1) Aristotle b) Medieval (1) St. Thomas Aquinas c) Modern (1) Locke (2) Berkeley (3) Hume 4) Kant and post-Kantian thinkers (Modern) a) Immanuel Kant b) Hegel 5) Pragmatism (contemporary-20th Century) a) Pierce b) James c) Dewey Skepticism- method of achieving certainty Empiricism- that is‚ there is nothing in the intellect that was not first in the senses
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Ethical Stance on Euthanasia Abstract Euthanasia is one of the most talked about issues related to biomedical ethics today. This paper will discuss the ethical findings on the topic of euthanasia from a philosophical point of view. The paper examines the moral views of philosophers and then will end with an argument as to why euthanasia should be allowed in United States. Ethical Stance on Euthanasia There are many people that have their opinion on whether one should be
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