FACTS ON MOVIE: Family is financially strapped; the Company employing John Archibald has changed its Insurance Carrier while at the same time reducing the number of hours Mr. Archibald works. For this reason the insurance coverage is limited to twenty thousand dollars and the family needs two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to save their son. Mr. Archibald tries to raise funds for his son but his efforts simply are not enough. Pressured by his wife to “do something” to save their son‚ Mr.
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therefore when evaluating ethics and the environment they would look at the end result and not necessarily the action. Utilitarianism is a teleological theory and would look at the purpose or the end goal of an action. With regards to deforestation the end goal is to create space for new homes‚ particularly in Brazil and therefore according to utilitarianism this is ethical because it brings great pleasure to those who are provided with homes. Utilitarians believed that ethics could be found in what
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Abstract The purpose of this paper is to examine both the utilitarian and deontological considerations behind Patricia Dunn’s decision to have private investigators check the telephone records of the board members of Hewlett-Packard‚ and the method they used to acquire the information. In addition‚ these same ethical considerations will be applied to the private investigators who acquired the telephone records‚ the website that published the information‚ and the person who leaked information. The
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connection between ethics and morality The term ethics originate from two Greek words‚ one of which means both “stable” and “living conditions” which demonstrates the fundamentally concrete‚ down to earth‚ meaning of the term. And also it finds its roots in another word which has the meaning of a way of living‚ a way of living in oneself in such a way as to orient one’s actions to live better‚ which shows us the formative force of this discipline on human thinking (Phaneuf‚ 2004). Ethics‚ according to
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industrial process from a factory. References Consected. (2013). “Automation‚ BPM‚ ethics and competition. Or serving customers better.” Retrieved from http://blog.consected.com/2013/03/ automation-bpm-ethics-andcompetition.html Moore‚ M. (2012). “Deontological Ethics.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved from http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-deontologic al/ Puerto‚ K. (2011). “Foxconn quiere reemplazar trabajadores con un millón de robots en los
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state of affairs is based off of a matter of opinion. What some consider “good” affairs; others may consider “poor”. The statement‚ there is no single objective sense of a good state of affairs holds truth. Philippa Foot’s Utilitarianism and the Virtues states‚ “ It can never be right to prefer a worse state of affairs to a better” (198). Foot is correct‚ however‚ this statement doesn’t say what specifically would be considered worse or better. If Jenny‚ the green thumbed outdoors lover woke to
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because of the implied obligation by our social contract‚ although none of them went the whole way and saved the man’s life. Under different ethical thought processes the outcomes would have been different. The thought processed to be examined are: Virtue Theory‚ Social Contract‚ Kantanian Thought‚ Utilitarianism‚ and
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Phuong Nguyen 09/23/2013 OBHR 3310-008 Does diversity affect ethical decisions? Maintaining diversity and ethics practices is important to most businesses who want to gain the loyalty of employees and trust of consumers. Diversity is much more than one of several ethical issues. Ethics and diversity‚ in fact‚ have a multi-dimensional relationship that affects not only what issues we consider‚ but also the very process of engaging in ethical reflection.
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in which the morality of an action is determined by the function that follows the action. Although Utilitarianism has many good principals that are both logical and appealing‚ the contradictions of the philosophy make it incompatible with Christian ethics. The moral standards that utilitarianism is supposedly based on only work when a person doesn’t consider the personal emotions that might hinder or get in the way of what the end result of the action is. The function may not be changed or diverted
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The Gilligan-Kohlberg Moral Theory Controversy Ethics‚ or moral philosophy‚ as a field of intellectual inquiry developed in the west for well over two thousand years with minimal input from women. Women’s voices have been virtually absent from western ethics until this century. The absence of female voices has meant that the moral concerns of men have preoccupied traditional western ethics‚ the moral perspectives of men have shaped its methods and concepts‚ and male biases against women have
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