Culture and Moral Development Another criticism of Kohlberg’s view is that it is culturally based. A review of research on moral development in 27 countries concluded that moral reasoning is more culture-specific than Kohlberg envisioned and that Kohlberg’s scoring system does not recognize higher-level moral reasoning in certain cultural groups (Snarey‚ 1987). Examples of higher-level moral reasoning that would not be scored as such by Kohlberg’s system include values related to communal
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Moral Leadership 1 Moral Leadership Tracey Marshall Canada Christian College Advanced Dynamics in Leadership Dr. Clarence Duff April 12‚ 2012 Moral Leadership 2 The distinction between right and wrong concerning principles is called morality. It is morality which helps to govern people whether as an individual‚ in a family‚ community‚ or organization. Within the last century‚ morality has been closely linked to leadership by identifying a style called “Moral Leadership”. In fact‚ it
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Businesses Moral Responsibility Darryl A. Young April 18‚ 2008 Philosophy GEPI 140 One of the most important questions in all businesses is‚ whether businesses have any moral responsibilities at all beyond simply earning as much of a profit as possible for their owners? If you look at it from the business point of view they are only responsible for making a profit. The company is an agent of the shareholders and is responsible only to them‚ and only for making a profit. Looking at it
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Jolley 2013). This is an ethical decision that can impact those company’s stakeholders. The decision can be made under various ethical models‚ such as moral rights‚ social justice (Waddell‚ Jones and George 2011‚ 148) and utilitarianism (Duska 2007‚ 22-25). This paper will argue that the accord should be signed according to the utilitarian model. The moral rights model argues that decisions should be made to protect fundamental rights of stakeholders and do no harm (Casali 2011‚ 489). The poor working
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Contemporary Moral Issues Philosophy 215 Fall 2014 Instructor: Valerie Philbrick-DeBrava Office: James Blair 132 Email: vaphilbrickdeb@wm.edu Office Hours: MWF 9:00-10:00 Phone: (804) 642-4621 Course Times: MWF 10:00-10:50 (01) Course Location: James Blair 201 MWF 11:00-11:50 (02) Course Description: Philosophy 215 is designed to improve our understanding of the moral issues our twenty-first-century society faces. As both a survey of
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Moral Realism In this paper‚ I examine the connection between judgments of fact and moral judgments in an attempt to discern whether moral judgments are simply a subset of judgments of fact. I will look mostly at an argument posed by many moral realists that takes moral facts to be “supervenient natural facts which are independent of our theorizing about them”1 and in which moral judgments are determined by objective facts which relate to human flourishing or pleasure and pain. I will also‚ though
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Perhaps quite eloquently‚ in John Stuart Mill’s text Utilitarianism he noted that “there are few circumstances among those which make up the present condition of human knowledge more unlike what might have been expected‚ or more significant of the backward state in which speculation on the most important subjects still lingers‚ than the little progress which has been made in the decision of controversy respecting the criterion of right and wrong” (Mill 1:1-6). In summary‚ it is rather evident that
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there is no moral or legal consequence. Folkways in the United States consist of supporting school activities‚ speaking to other students in the hall‚ and if male‚ removing hats in church. In society today we find people who always wear shorts with a suit or who talk loudly odd but society doesn’t consider them immoral. However if someone has obnoxious behavior at a party after excessive drinking can bring in strong negative reactions from others. Mores are strict norms that control moral and ethical
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John Stuart Mill published Utilitarianism in 1861 in installments in Fraser’s Magezine it was later brought out in book form in 1863. The book offers a candidate for a first principle of morality‚ a principle that provides us with a criterion distinquishing right and wrong. The unilitarian candidate is the principle of utility‚ which holds that "actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happpiness. By happiness is intended pleasure
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Corporations are moral agents I chose to evaluate the second debate because I thought it was the most significant to the purpose of the class: to analyze the moral responsibility of business. The debaters were assigned to negate and affirm the following motion: Corporations are Moral Agents. In my opinion‚ this motion comes down to the decision to hold corporations responsible for their (corporations) decisions on a moral basis or just hold them responsible for their decisions on a legal basis
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