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Ethical Business

the government of the Netherlands began requiring businesses to improve the environmental footprint they left in the wake of condu...

Changing Commodity Prices

being celebrated. For the consumer there is a choice, they can choose when to eat, and this will impact on the price they pay. F...

Ethics and Laws/Healthcare Organizations

informed consent as one would with other patients, who are not of this culture. Such questions that address the role of the law ...

First Central Bank Of River City - Harvard Case Study

vacation leave and death benefit plan. Employees paid for their own health insurance, though. The Union violated the law a number...

Ethical Analysis of the Telephone Records Controversy

number of theories that may be used in evaluating the situation at hand. II. Analysis When examining this case, one can use var...

BHS and Ethical Clothing

manufacturing process to ensure that human rights are not violated, and what steps they take to penalise such violations. ...

Case Study on Decision Making

the different aspects will be considered, rather than a single item gaining a disproportional relevance. Question 2 After readi...

Evaluating When Children Can Testify

Everyone is challenged with ethical issues, some more often than others. This essay discusses forensic psychologists and possible ...

Teacher Strikes: Ethical Issues Faced by Teachers

This 3 page paper gives an overview of ethical issues faced by teachers. This paper includes how these ethical issues relate to te...

Making a Personal Decision, the Decision-Making Process

This essay pertains to an important decision made by a student and the process that was used for arriving at this decision. Five p...

Addiction Ethcial Treatment

In this paper, the writer reflects on the ethical issues associated with treating substance abusers and addiction. The paper cites...

Proposal Hospital Implement Electronic Management

Information technology plays a major role in mitigating different issues such as increasing demand, constrained resources, continu...

John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant, and Jim the Botanist by Bernard Williams

morality that originated in its modern form with Jeremy Bentham -- utilitarianism. Mill believed that an action should be judged b...

Leadership and Decisions According to the Vroom-Jago Decision Making Model

made (Evans, 2002). There are also several disadvantages to group decisions. Group decisions can be time consuming and many decisi...

Ethics of the Ford Pinto

design engineers did not intend for the Pinto to be dangerous in rear-end collisions, so the Kantian perspective essentially would...

Ethics of the Ford Pinto

deaths resulting from the Pintos faulty design because no one at Ford could know the future. Certainly design engineers did not i...

Consequences of Moral Philosophy

In one page this essay considers how Immanuel Kant's moral philosophy on consequences transforms it into the utilitarianism princ...

Religion and the Principles of Immanuel Kant

In twelve pages the moral doctrines articulated by German philosopher Immanuel Kant are related to principles of Catholicism and U...

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

heartlessness of the industrialist, Bounderby, against the humanity and goodness of one of his textile workers, Stephen Blackpool....

Censorship and Utilitarianism Memo

in mind; however, that extension is limited to the number of people who stand to benefit from its application. For example, Londo...

Themes in Dostoyevsky's Novel, Notes From The Underground

demonstrate how utilitarianism appears to have the peoples best interest in mind; however, that extension is limited to the number...

Ford Pinto Case and the Categorical Imperative of Immanuel Kant

In ten pages this paper discusses the rights and virtue theories as well as utilitarianism, cost benefit analysis, ethics, solutio...

Examining Utilitarianism

rule utilitarianism (Pojman and Meagher 223). Act utilitarians are often thought of as consequentialists because they look at the...

Living By A Code, Ethics, Liberty, and Morality

things, some of which were not the original intent of Jeffersons vision. Having money has come to be equated with a sense of free...

Theories of Corporate Responsibility

is a theory that a student writing on this subject should certainly explore. Central to utilitarianism is the premise that it ...

Boeing Company and Theories of Ethics

2004). John Stuart Mills, in his book Utilitarianism, further stated that not all forms of pleasure were of equal value (Free-Defi...

Moral Conduct and the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

nature of human thought. Kants stance is extremely rational. However, some of his maxims prove to be unworkable in regards to ce...

Health Care and an Application of Distributive Justice

Where Philosophy and Reality Meet Accessibility to and the cost of health care have been overriding issues...

Internet and Immorality

In looking at the greatest good we may argue that there are many people that have benefited from the use of the internet,...

Looking at Drug Testing Philosophically

trust the individuals in the position, or is a drug test needed? Utilitarianism supports the idea that the greater good is what i...