Thomas Hobbes Vs. Immanuel Kant PART 1: Thomas Hobbes “Everyone is governed by his own reason‚ and there is nothing he can make use of that may not be a help unto him in preserving his life against his enemies (Hobbes‚ 120).” Thomas Hobbes‚ who is a considered a rational egoist‚ makes this point in his book Leviathan. Hobbes believes that the means of person’s actions can only be amounted to how it ultimately affects that person. Our moral duties that we perform in the end‚ all stem from self-interest
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Crane and Matten Business Ethics (3rd Edition) Chapter 3 Evaluating Business Ethics: Normative Ethical Theories Lecture 3 Overview • Locate the role of ethical theory • Highlight international differences in perspectives • Provide critical overview of traditional ethical theories • Explore contemporary ethical theories What are normative ethical theories? • Ethical theories are the rules and principles that determine right and wrong for any given situation Crane and Matten (2010) • Normative
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1.0 Description of Initial Response Responsible business normally is known as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). In today’s world‚ most businesses are focusing on profitability ignoring all social responsibility they should contribute back. It is important for companies to gain trust from the community in return of CSR. Three major personal core values that I think a ‘responsible business’ should have are empower‚ professionalism and commitment. First of all‚ when a company able to empowering
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After a very awkward prayer delivered by Uncle Charles unwillingly and involuntarily‚ Violet initiated the conversation by asking an irrelevant question to her daughter “Barb‚ have any use for that sideboard”. First it’s very important to note that violet is a drug addict who suffers also from oral cancer. Her character is a full of despair mixed with ruthless bitterness‚ anger‚ resentment‚ melancholy and lack of compassion. Along the conversation‚ she was making numerous irrelevant contributions
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Utilitarianism and Kant’s respective have different ways for demonstrating whether an act we do is right or wrong. Corresponding to Kant‚ we should look at our maxims‚ intentions‚ of a particular action. Kantians believe “If we are rational‚ we will each agree to curb our self-interest and cooperate with one another” (Shafer-Landau‚ Russ 194). In other words‚ humans are rational beings capable of rational behavior and should not be used purely for self-interest. On the other hand‚ Utilitarian’s believe
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How are religious and ethical principles used in the abortion debate? Abortion has been legal in the United Kingdom since the Abortion Act of 1967‚ which was further amended in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act of 1990‚ lowering the length of pregnancy in which it is legal to have an abortion from 28 weeks to 24 weeks‚ owing to advances in medicine and a decrease in the age of viability of a foetus. There are four criteria which allow women to have an abortion‚ as long as they have the
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world leader who shows high courage and moral leadership is the U.S. President‚ Barak Obama. This is because he shows great leadership qualities such as confidence‚ charisma‚ integrity‚ loyalty and tact. In Chapter 6‚ Daft (2010)‚ discusses characteristics associated with Courage and Moral Leadership to be tact‚ enthusiasm‚ courage‚ integrity and courage. President Obama’s characteristics can be attributed to the fact that he had a great Pastor and spiritual mentor. According to Crossman (2010)‚ sometimes
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within us. When the book was originally released the name of the author was kept a mystery although the wordsmith was described as a Wall Street financier. However‚ that did not prevent eager quotation propagators from fabricating attributions. The maxim has been assigned to the introduction writer‚ Nock‚ and it has even been credited to the head of the publishing
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specific end; and the categorical imperative‚ which dictates a course of action that must be followed because of its rightness and necessity. The categorical imperative is the basis of morality and was stated by Kant in these words: "Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will and general natural law." Therefore‚ before proceeding to act‚ we must decide what rule we need to follow if we were to act‚ whether we are willing for that rule to be followed by everyone all over.
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PRAGMATICS 1 Definitions and background Pragmatics: is concerned with the study of meaning as communicated by a speaker (or writer) and interpreted by a listener (or reader). It has more to do with what people mean by their utterances. It is the study of the speaker meaning. It also has to do with the meaning in a particular context and how the context influences what is said. Also the study of how more is communicated than is said. Closeness‚ whether it is physical‚ social‚ or conceptual
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