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    Abstract This paper explores the ethics of bank executives receiving large bonuses despite the fact that they received a bailout. I identify the utilitarian and deontological implications of these executives’ actions. This paper also examines if the executives deserved the bonuses‚ did the banks need a bonus‚ and how the banks should have been regulated by the banks. Keywords: bailoututilitarian‚ deontology Ethics of Bank Bailout Bonuses Currently the economy is still in “The Great Recession”

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    Utilitarian Ethics

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    Two individuals who supported Utilitarian Ethics were Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. Bentham believed that companies should go about decisions by determining "the greatest good for the greatest number" and whether situations would cause either pleasure or pain. Bentham would agree to

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    Bailout Ethics Americans are outraged. Billions of taxpayer dollars were committed last year to rescuing firms such as Citigroup and the American International Group (AIG). Earlier this year‚ several companies who received Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) assistance were awarding top executives with extravagant bonuses. According to the Wall Street Journal‚ the U.S. government lent $238 billion in TARP taxpayer funds to almost 700 banks; 44 of these banks have repaid a $71 billion (Johnston

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    major distinction between utilitarian and deontological reasoning. Make reference to all relevant aspects of the two positions including the ’act’ and ’rule’ versions along with pertinent examples that clarify your answer. The major distinction between Emmanual Kant’s deontological reasoning and Mill’s utilitarian reasonsing is that deontological reasoning refers to duty‚ which is usually determined without regard to circumstances or consequences where as utilitarian reasoning always considers

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    Explain Utilitarian Ethics (25 marks) Utilitarian ethics is an expansive field of normative ethics that believes that the action that you take should be that which maximises utility‚ that is to say prospering and maximizing happiness whilst mitigating suffering or sadness as much as possible. Whilst it was once often considered a hedonistic field‚ there being one that argues pleasure being the only true‚ intrinsic good or aim‚ it is now more commonly referred to that of a consequentiality field‚

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    A utilitarian model of ethics is one where the greatest good is produced for the greatest number of people. As explained in the text‚ payola is the act of using money to get air play. They further add that statistics show a significant correlation between air play and generated profit from that song. In my opinion‚ this is an unethical from a utilitarian point of view. I argue this point of view because there is an emphasis on quality. This is one of the important milestones for any legitimate organization

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    The task that stands before me in this paper is to address two situations and determine the ethical parameters in which a person should act. The two philosophical approaches that I will examine the situations with the Kantian and Utilitarian point of view. Kant deciphers his ethical questions by examining a person’s motivation for performing an act regardless of the consequences. A person who utilizes the Kantian view believes that the only pure good is pure human reason without consequences. This

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    A bailout could be done for mere profit‚ as when a predatory investor resurrects a floundering company by buying its shares at fire-sale prices; for social improvement‚ as when‚ hypothetically speaking‚ a wealthy philanthropist reinvents an unprofitable fast food company into a non-profit food distribution network; or the bailout of a company might be seen as a necessity in order to prevent greater‚ socioeconomic failures: For example‚ the US government assumes transportation to be the backbone of

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    and in that way it completes the goal of the Utilitarian. However‚ as soon as one of your virtues got in the way of you or someone else receiving the most possible pleasure from an action‚ it would interfere with the Utilitarian way of thinking. 3. A. Unlike Kantian ethics‚ the ethics of care focus on personal dependence and relationships. This theory recognizes that people are interdependent‚ and as such should take care of one another. Kantian ethics however‚ is based on the motives behind the action

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    deontological vs. utilitarian ethics Kant believed that morality is dependent upon reason‚ that to act rationally was the same as acting morally. He placed a high value upon duty in determining the moral worth of an action. Kant’s deontological ethics is essentially an ethics of duty or obligation. As such‚ he claims that the moral worth of an action depends solely on whether or not it was done exclusively from a sense of duty. If an act is done simply because one is so inclined‚ the act has no

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