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the balloon, and certain gestures, were definite responses to the environment and evidence of consciousness, but the doctors disag...

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

The idea of utilitarianism is one that addresses whether something is of utility, whether it can actually create something positiv...

beliefs and attitudes. Most of us have many different values and attitudes. Self-accountability is one value by which I try to liv...

humans, it is not necessarily the best thing to do. Kant also supports a categorical imperative principle which suggests that some...

the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation" (Jeremy Bentham, 2006). This simple co...

administration that is tied to a clandestine love affair. Forbes prints a small article regarding another type of conflict of inte...

dealing with the actual philosophies and how they fit into the auditing profession. What well do, first of all, is define what it ...

perhaps for good reasons but with disastrous results over the long term. Community over self is more obvious and calls to m...

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

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

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

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

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

that this is wrong. They believe that there is an intrinsic morality and that women should not be executed for committing adultery...

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

& Associates, n.d.). This was the temperature advised for optimum taste of the coffee (ATLA, n.d.). It was also determined that ot...

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....

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

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

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

the ethical and moral code by which humans live. Through the distortion of individualism, humanity has turned into a selfish, ego...

originally? Even if it is passed on to future generations, or victims, it has to come form somewhere. While some say it is origina...

as a morally acceptable act from a Utilitarian point of view. Many philosophical and sociological questions loom over this issue...

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

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

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

hold onto an ends justify the means philosophy. Consequentialism is a relatively recent concept in utilitarianism that rejects ...