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was receiving a congratulatory gift for his academic achievements, specifically, his 3.5 grade point average (Kansas City Star, 20...
the realm of reality as researchers in the United Kingdom produced a cloned sheep and others at the University of Tennessee cloned...
student who is aware that a fellow student has lied on a questionnaire administered in a blood drive. The intent of the questionn...
that the morality of choice is based on the greater good. The saying, "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" arise...
on the bandwagon for the death penalty but rather in him looking more closely at the issues surrounding that penalty. He contends...
The problem with meaning as it relates to Kantian duty is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connotati...
anyone would offer her. She claimed to be an inexperienced homemaker returning to the workforce (Clayton, 2002). What ensues is ...
hospital quite naturally is concerned about the cost of continuing to provide care for Andrew, but it can be assured that there is...
if they are simple and straightforward. These patient data records will be replaced weekly, and each will contain a weeks worth o...
and Public Policy, 1995). These days, this still happens -- older scientists regularly mentor younger scientists and through that...
harm society; however, long-term decisions may hurt the individual but benefit the community (2002). Hence, it is sometimes hard t...
hold onto an ends justify the means philosophy. Consequentialism is a relatively recent concept in utilitarianism that rejects ...
his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...
recent ex-Governor Ryan. This corruption manifested in a number of ways including various arms of corruption within the Chicago p...
other words, it must be a universal law. For instance, killing is wrong. That would have universality. If the woman decides she sh...
be seen as the framework from which the principle of our conduct is governed or judged and the way in which we see our duty and th...
II. Case Study In a case study submitted by a student, Quasar Stellar Company is a subsidiary of Nucleonics Company. Quasar Stel...
agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...
rule-utilitarianism. Act-utilitarianism "supposes that each particular action should be evaluated solely by references to its own ...
The primary ethical issue lay in whether to terminate the pregnancy. The doctor of record resisted abortion as an option, in fact...
disagree with his wife could disrupt their marital relationship at a time when he needs this support, which is undoubtedly one of ...
psychologist has violated ethical standards. Competence or beneficence and nonmalfeacense is well-placed as the first principle. ...
some of the inmates to play poker with pornographic cards. He smuggles hookers in for several of the ward mates, and he threatens ...
considered moral to steal or lie. Anti-abortion activists have taken this a step further, considering their murdering of abortion ...
used to test ethics go to something called a lying promise. If one decides it is always right to tell the truth, what if someone i...
the cracks of indigent health care. The hospital quite naturally is concerned about the cost of continuing to provide care for Mr...
arise during this absence. Not only is this practice unacceptable professionally, but it is also problematic legalistically, as th...
staff that can result in moral stress or stress of conscience (Fry, Hurly & Foley, 2002). Because unresolved ethical issues can ...
include: 1. Patient autonomy, or the right to personal decision making; 2. Nonmaleficence, or the causing of no harm to the patie...
and give an appearance of a sounder and more asset backed company. The first is with the repurchase of some franchises, for a pric...