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B.F. Skinner's Contributions

Law of Effect. In the Law of Effect positive effects serve to strengthen the stimulus/response connection while negative effects ...

Legal Consent, Sex, and the Consumption of Alcohol

the sexual act did not take place. It may only mean that a very bad decision was made that has the potential to cause a great deal...

Ethics of German Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer

held the belief that morality was performed because of the will of an "other," rather than driven by the beast within (The Philoso...

Case Study of the Enron Corporation

billions of dollars below expectations, the bottom fell out. The stock was dumped, and it lost value. The stock has lost 99 percen...

Immanuel Kant and Deontology

actions should not merely be personal. We cannot rely on our actions and motives being righteous and fully ethical if we are doing...

The Sources of Christian Ethics by Pinckaers

views should be assessed and aligned. The Apostle Paul wrote to the Colossians that they should make the most of every oppo...

Politics and Structural Realism

to do this, but in reality, it is a necessity as the system structures force the state into this position (Waltz, 1979). When ...

Responsibility, Philanthropy, and Stakeholders in Business Ethics

do unwittingly (Nickerson, 1999). There is a simple reason for this result. As individuals produce goods in order to gain a profit...

Bhopal, India's Union Carbide Plant and Ethics

removed a pressure gauge that was attached to the tank, stuck a hose in the hole and filled the tank with water (Dykes and Graham,...

Ethical Code of Lockheed Martin

at all. Because it has its hand in multiple cookie jars, it likely should subscribe to a variety of ethical codes. Certain types o...

Karl Marx's 1844 Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts and Ethics

of men. Labour produces not only commodities; it produces itself and the worker as a commodity--and does so in the proportion in w...

Moral Education According to Aristotle

the right objects, towards the right people, with the right motive and in the right way. He states in Book II, "The moral virtues,...

There is Never a Justification for Lying

lie to the police, and fabricate "evidence," in order to protect her daughter from possible harm? Or, should she allow her daughte...

Assisted Suicide and Quality of Life

merely deny treatment. This is a commonly understood doctrine and one upheld by most medical professionals. However, many argue...

The Dax Cowart Case Examined Philosophically

due to the fact that she was in so much pain. However, in the case at hand, the situation was far more serious. If one accepts th...

Defining and Studying Inventory Cycles

turnover rate the higher the working capital that is required for the company, as there is more capital up in stock. Lower stocks ...

Nursing and Ethical Values

who consistently place the needs of others above their own. The individuals who do this seemingly so naturally often can be diffi...

Global Business Ethics

of competency. McDonalds Corporation has found that in expanding to other countries not all relationships are dealt with in the s...

Defining Irony

and its complexities. If everything were taken at face value - that is on a very literal level - then language would be extremely...

Defining and Treating Schizophrenia

prevention. Today, researchers are not disregarding the genetic component, but see this component as working in conjunction with o...

Defining 'Fun'

thus far we can see that it is not necessarily the act that is fun. While it may be, in some cases for people who love a particula...

Should the Rich Be Responsible for the Impoverished?

at an outdoor caf? for lunch. As you begin talking, a very articulate homeless person comes up to your table and asks for money. T...

Business Ethics Violations

after he heard about a pending takeover from a law partner. Because OHagans firm was not employed by Pillsbury but rather, was ret...

Ahimsa, Dharma, and Spiritual Specialist Defined

a system of divination called ocule and is based on the binary system of ones and zeros (Ryan, 2001). Here the Orishasa are consul...

Ethics, the Soul, and 'Allegory of the Cave' in the A. Bloom Translation of Plato's The Republic

he had dragged him out into the light of the sun" he would be distressed. For Socrates, the world above ground represents the othe...

Corporate Scandals and Business Ethics

as to any changes which need to be made, where the profits are most likely to occur and how to correct any financial infallibility...

Henry Sidgwick's Theories and Arguments

to that of Egoism which is based on the premise that mans concern with his own good is the basis of mans morality. Sidgwick in his...

WorldCom, Enron, and Ethics

employees - and even the economy. In the end, no one has benefited from either situation, because the methods were done in secrecy...

Lying and Infidelity

In nine pages this paper examines infidelity as a form of lying as represented in the movie Random Hearts and in literature in the...

Workplace Values and Employee Morality

by dint of the fact they are the customers, and they are the ones paying the money for a product or service. Trust...