Meno asks Socrates‚ is it possible to teach virtue or is it something that can be learned through practice. On the other hand is it just something that people just posses or is it just learned through some other way. Now the argument goes as follows: If you know what to look for to learn something‚ then there is no reason to learn it: If virtue is taught‚ then there must be a teacher of virtue. Virtue is taught Therefore‚ there is a teacher of virtue If one would want to start to understand this
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i) Outline the important concepts of either situation ethics or utilitarianism ii) To what extent are these important concepts undermined by relevant criticisms? Situation Ethics is a normative‚ relative ethical theory. It emerged at a time when the Church and society were changing‚ women were given a more prominent status in the workplace and the paternalism of society was decreasing. Thee main factor of change was the sexual revolution of the 1960’s‚ people were beginning to express their individualism
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and is hooked up to an ekg monitor which is the only device monitoring them while the doctors and nursing staff leave to see other patients. Not many people think of the Biomedical engineer who built this device‚ and even less people consider the virtues that engineer learned in their undergraduate degree. Consider the outcomes of this scenario if the person who built that device was not a virtuous human being. Virtue ethics is a branch of philosophy which seeks to answer the question of what
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way into hell. Through these beliefs and virtues Franklin created a plan to achieve moral perfection. Although finding the task somewhat more difficult than he first imagined he stayed with his convictions and deduced thirteen virtues to improve upon and follow. These virtues were: order‚ silence‚ temperance‚ resolution‚ frugality‚ industry‚ cleanliness‚ tranquility‚ chastity and humility. Now how did he come up with the virtues and what did the virtues consist of? After concocting this ingenious
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story of job is a popular story in the bible because it establishes the concepts of; communication ‚ faith ‚ and trust. Communication is important in this story because it starts the stepping ground for your relationship with god. Calling on god when you go through problems can ease the pain. In the book of job‚ Job loses everything his live stock‚ servants‚ and his ten children. Afterwards Job cries and shaves his head‚ but he still prayes god name. Unlike others‚ when they are put through
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Virtue Ethics- Even though Billy did have too much to drink‚ that does not excuse him from going home and having sex with a woman he just met while he is in a relationship. While being a close friend to both people‚ Billy and Suzie‚ and knowing that I can’t stop him‚ it is my loyal and moral duty to act in a just and kind way which is to tell Suzie. A Virtue Ethics person would suggest that the right thing to do is look at an angelic person. A truthful friend that that doesn’t lie in order to make
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University of Phoenix Material Risky Situations Identify three types of sensitive information involved with each situation. Then‚ describe three ways in which each information item could be misused or harmed. For each of these‚ note at least one likely finding that you would include in a risk analysis report of the organization. Finally‚ answer the questions at the end. Situation 1 – Online Banking System Information Affected Potential Harm (Risk) Likely Finding in Risk Analysis Report Customer
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Strengths and Weaknesses Of Virtue Ethics The virtue ethicist suggests that this theory avoids the complicated tasks of using a formula to figure out what we should do‚ by instead focusing on the kinds of persons we sould be. The problem lies in determining how we know what kinds of persons we should be. How are we to determine just what the virtues are? If we don’t know what the virtues are‚ then telling people to live virtuously would be ignorant. The virtues are whatever character
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MT302 Organizational Behavior Unit 2: Assignment Job Satisfaction Important Factors 6/17/2011 I selected my top five to reflect what I believe are important aspects within the workplace. I selected Job security as my number one most important aspect. My second is career advancement‚ then pay/compensation. Fourth is Benefits and lastly balance between home life and work. These to me are the most important aspects of a job or career that could be offered within any given position with a company
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Assignments 1. Describe a clinical situation in which you were tasked to work with a patient that was experiencing pain. Briefly describe the situation (1-2 sentences) and tell us if there were any barriers present that prevented the patient from achieving pain relief (1 sentence). If you have not had experience with patients in pain‚ hypothesize what the situation might be like‚ from what you already know. Currently‚ I work as a nurse on a medical/surgical floor for mainly neurosurgery patients
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