Ethical Systems: Which is Best? PHI 200 Mind and Machine Instructor Lisa Linkin February 4‚ 2013 * Ethical Systems: Which is Best? Good‚ bad‚ right‚ wrong…how do we know? Ethics is the study of how we determine what is right or wrong‚ good or bad (Mosser‚ 2010). While there are many ethical views‚ I focused on the three classical approaches for this paper. Utilitarianism states when given a choice between two acts‚ the one that creates the greater happiness for the greatest number of people
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Suppose that we have a team of observers who continually report the location of this body to us as time progresses. To be more exact‚ our observers report the distance of the body from some arbitrarily chosen reference point located on the track on which it is constrained to move. This point is known as the origin of our coordinate system. A positive value implies that the body is located meters to theright of the origin‚ whereas a negative value implies that the body is located meters to the left of
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refers to: THE VIRGIN MARY At one time Ravenna was an important outpost for the Byzantine Roman Empire: TRUE Pendentives are found around which of the following: HAGIA SOPHIA What did Paul the Silentiary say about Hagia’s Sophia’s dome? IT LOOKED AS IF IT WERE SUSPENDED FROM HEAVEN What does Hagia Sophia mean? HOLY WISDOM Iconoclasm refers to which of the following? DESCTRUCTION OF IMAGES Byzantine churches were mostly centrally planned TRUE Which is an example of isocephally?
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My beliefs about following one’s conscience are that by following your conscience it will lead you to do the right thing and that you will do what’s right for you. Your conscience is what helps you decide what’s right from wrong and without it‚ no one would be able to choose to do the right thing. When I was in eighth grade‚ my friends and me were 14 years old and we went to Sullivan Middle School. There was a friend in my group that a lot of my friends didn’t like. Her name was Mary. Out of all
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41. State whether each of the following payments is a tax. Explain your answers. a. To incorporate his business‚ Alex pays the state of Texas a $2‚000 incorporation fee. The incorporation fee is not a tax. Alex receives a direct benefit from the payment of the fee - the privilege of operating his business as a corporation b. The city paves a road and assesses each property owner on the road $4‚000 for his or her share of the cost. The payment of the assessment is not a tax. The assessment
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Name __________________________________ Period _________ GAS STOICHIOMETRY WORKSHEET Please answer the following on separate paper using proper units and showing all work. Please note that these problems require a balanced chemical equation. 1. Carbon monoxide reacts with oxygen to produce carbon dioxide. If 1.0 L of carbon monoxide reacts with oxygen at STP‚ a. how many liters of oxygen are required to react? b. How many liters of carbon dioxide are produced? 2. Acetylene gas (C 2H2) undergoes
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1) What is grammatically incorrect with the following sentence? What time are you two going to go out? Choose one answer. | |a) The infinitive “to go” should be split by an adverb. | | | |b) It ends with a preposition. | | | |C.)The phrasal verb “go out” is casual English and as such‚ it should only be used
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Shirley Jackson the theme is the danger of blindly following traditions can eventually lead to you being cruel. The following theme with be supported through characterization and setting. In The Lottery one way that the danger of blindly following traditions can eventually lead to you being cruel is seen through setting in the second paragraph “Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones” and “…eventually made a great piles of stones in one corner of the square and guarded it against the
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on the capital resources it uses which means the combination of debt and equity. This is given by the ratio return on capital employed (ROCE)‚ return on investment or accounting rate of return. This tells investors how successful the business is by analyzing the profitability. The higher ROCE‚ the more liable it is to carry a high return to the investors resulting in higher dividends and rising share prices. The profitability is important for businesses which want to attract financial funds
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Rousseau‚ The Social Contract (1762) "All men are born free‚ but elsewhere they are in chains" states his belief that society "chains" people John Locke "Life‚ liberty‚ and property" Machiavelli " A prince should have only one end and one idea in mind‚ take only one subject for study‚ and it is war‚ its science and discipline; for it is the only science that deals with the ruler’s problems. ...[Success in war] not only maintains those born to princedoms but often causes men of private origin
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