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Long-term solutions carry "higher personal risks and an intangible measure of worth" (Schafer, 2002; p. 14). 2. Utilitarianism A....

who also figure prominently in the decision-making process by virtue of the arguments they offer for courts consideration and the ...

roughly 12 percent of the displaced employees a change at relocation within the company. Forty percent would be hired by the new b...

a prison takeover (Burke, 1995). Though unusual, if something like that were to happen, officials would be at an extreme disadvant...

every objection. What is perhaps striking is that Mills theory is applicable to a variety of situations. Unlike Kant for ex...

is caused by eating an animal. As a utilitarian, Singer focuses more on the consequences of the act and not the consequences of f...

the street ... must and will reflect our personal moral standards" (Reavley, 2001). Those moral standards, Reavley implies, must ...

are doing is unethical. Why? The majority of people are not environmental activists and they do not care about the trees. Of cours...

commandment "thou shalt not kill", for example, are forced to re-examine their views in the light of military service in wartime, ...

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

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

absolute, or to take the view that killing an enemy to defend ones country is not "covered" by the ethical imperative....

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

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

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

taken ten years to be resolved (2003). These authors also report there are so many lawsuits being filed related to the set-aside p...

the face of it, to go against the utilitarian principle of the "greatest good of the greatest number", taking a more long-term vie...

ethical, philosophical, and moral issues that characterize the one delivery mechanism also characterize the other. A particular c...

of moral realistic thought and debate. Thomas Hills "Moral Agency Presupposes Autonomy of the Will"...

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...

a fair and equitable return for the business owner and his or her investors. Clearly, the world has become far more complicated a...

when they heard the ringing of the bells, for they would associate this with being fed. In Brave New World, behaviorism takes the...

technical crime. It is worth noting that ethics is not what values are actually held by the courts or the individuals, but of th...

technology grows, so will options in conception and birthing. One can only imagine that the future holds a scary world of artifici...

rights of another individual. In this way, then, even if one chooses badly, they have not been damaged to the point that they have...

The problem with meaning as it relates to Kantian duty is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connotati...

of employment at the plant instead of clear skies. The issue for shareholders, the board and executives, at lest is bottom line p...

and non-rational elements. Of the non-rational, the autonomic responses (breathing, sleeping, digesting, and reproducing) is commo...

ideas about economic theory and in doing so, he arrived at the conclusion that "conventional economic analysis could not show that...

state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...