HR Practices of United Services Automobile Association Company Information & Business Strategy The United Services Automobile Association (USAA) is a Fortune 100 company as of the year 2009 that primarily sells life and property insurance to its 7.7 million members‚ which consists of active and retired military personnel and their family members (www.biz.yahoo.com). They also offer such services as banking and investment management‚ focused on helping military persons to manage their money
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Environmental Ethics Gaia Hypothesis (eco-holism) James Lovelock argues that we are part of planet earth and not masters of it. He argued for the existence of ’Gaia’ - a living system which controls the earth and keeps everything constant. Lovelock says that Gaia keeps the planet at a constant state of management. Lovelock says we shouldn’t be anthropocentric (focussing solely on ourselves) but biocentric‚ and says that Gaia restores balance to the imbalance caused by humans. The earth is‚ Lovelock
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Ethics Committee Jacqueline Denise Curry Strayer University Business Ethics 309 Instructor Dr. Harvey Weiss Market Shortage of Organs The purpose for the commercialization of organs for transplant is to make able to provide the availability of organs for patients/people who are in pain‚ and suffering‚ and destined to die from the terminal illness of organ
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References: . (2014‚ January 1). . Retrieved July 1‚ 2014‚ from http://www.csus.edu/indiv/g/gaskilld/ethics/Kantian%20Ethics.htm McCormick‚ M. (n.d.). Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Kant‚ Immanuel: Metaphysics []. Retrieved July 1‚ 2014‚ from http://www.iep.utm.edu/kantmeta/ Kantian Ethics. (n.d.). Kantian Ethics. Retrieved July 1‚ 2014‚ from http://philosophy.lander.edu/ethics/kant.html John Stuart Mill Ethics. (n.d.). . Retrieved July 1‚ 2014‚ from http://www
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6ED ETHICAL DILEMMAS: ESSAY (30%) Guidelines for Students Word Length * You are required to write one essay‚ 800 - 1000 words in length: Topic * Certain topics‚ may not actually pose dilemmas‚ and would not be appropriate. * Topic can be chosen from the list. If you have your own idea for the topic‚ please check with your tutor first. * The topic chosen should‚ ideally‚ not be too closely related to your course of study. Please do not recycle versions of material previously produced
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are nevertheless obligatory guidelines for actions. A maxim is a general truth or rule of conduct. Immanuel Kant ’s political teaching may be summarized in a phrase: republican government and international organization. In more characteristically Kantian terms‚ it is doctrine of the state based upon the law (Rechtsstaat) and of eternal peace. Indeed‚ in each of these formulations‚ both terms express the same idea: that of legal constitution or of "peace through law. Rechtsstaat is a doctrine in continental
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United States‚ 2.7 million animals are euthanized each year‚ yet human assisted euthanasia is not even legal in 46 states. Not only do animals not have to give consent to their deaths but it is legal in every single state. Even though the basis of Kantian ethics and Catholicism lie hundreds of years apart‚ they are almost identical when it comes to their views on some moral issues. In regards to euthanasia‚ Kant and Catholicism have different reasons‚ yet their views are the same in that they say euthanasia
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Utilitarianism and Deontology support the legalization of marijuana‚ it produces a greater good for the economy‚ health‚ and positive effect on people’s happiness. The law of duty would be moral‚ and legalizing marijuana stimulates jobs‚ reduces crime rates‚ helps medically‚ and economically produces money. As a Utilitarian‚ they believe that the best action is the one the maximizes utility‚ and in this argument marijuana is a utility that could benefit for the greater good of human beings. In Deontology
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Through the egalitarian reasoning of John Rawls and the act-utilitarianist perspective of J.J.C. Smart‚ I will analyze the concept of justice. In accordance with Rawls‚ I intend to argue that any changes in society that will increase the burden carried by the poorest 5% are unjust‚ even if these changes increase the average level of happiness for the other 95%. With regard to ethics‚ justice is defined as fairness‚ where all situations should be treated alike. For one to exhibit justice‚ one must
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Benard Mayo states virtue is Platonic ethics and that duty is Kantian ethics. He contrast rule-governed ethics with virtue ethics through Plato and Aristotle and Kant. Virtues make humans be better people and help people live a good happy life. Aristotle’s moral theory is focused on what good it’s to be and not what is right to do. Meaning what kind of traits are present in a human. For example Mayo uses courage. We say the man was courageous‚ but it isn’t the act that was courageous it was simply
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