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Essays 541 - 570
the truth is that companies will get these lists anyway. Is it good for business? Obviously it is or the lists would not be so imp...
Virtuous action was defined by Aristotle as what a person with practical wisdom would choose. The golden mean, as defined by Ari...
dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...
ethics, or those which are based on moral obligation and duty. Kant argued that "the moral status of an action is not determined b...
one is virtuous, and that their actions are virtuous, but that might be illusive. Can virtue be whittled down to intrinsic right o...
trust the individuals in the position, or is a drug test needed? Utilitarianism supports the idea that the greater good is what i...
Compassion: We will remain aware of the needs of others and act to meet those needs whenever possible. We will also minimize harm ...
2004). John Stuart Mills, in his book Utilitarianism, further stated that not all forms of pleasure were of equal value (Free-Defi...
into a girl had been followed by intensive social, hormonal and mental conditioning (54). This was the first case of sex reassig...
business, but it has "confused some employees spiritually -- a side often overlooked by vitally important to an ethical workplace"...
new. The result was the death of the brand, all ferries were gradually changed to P&O ferries, the name of the parent company, but...
things, some of which were not the original intent of Jeffersons vision. Having money has come to be equated with a sense of free...
own people: he points out that the rape of girls "not ten years old" resulted in the perpetrators being disciplined, but it is cle...
being within society: "the proper excellence or virtue of man will be the habit or trained faculty that makes a man good and makes...
individual turf without ethical concerns. Mandatory drug laws take family cars when the owners are not even guilty of a thing. Col...
executives from Silicon Valley tech corporations. After bemoaning the latest wave of corporate scandals, these executives discusse...
medical test reports to credit reports, and so there are a lot of opportunities to steal valuable information. Some believe that ...
the universe, in which human beings are pictured a being at the top of the pyramid to one that sees life as an expanding circle th...
laws governing confidentiality in psychological practice vary from state to state (Richmond, 2003). Generally speaking, psychol...
than simply advise a company about whether or not they are in compliance with federal law (Pray, 2000). With the initiation of la...
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....
so that he could become a television director at Universal Studios for a salary of $225 per week (Cagle, 2002). After serving an ...
lesser of the two evils approach, but yet an approach that clearly illustrates how far the lack of ethics and morals in the politi...
be ethical, considering that there is still a high degree of false positives. Still, the argument is, at least theoretically, that...
benefit from various government subsidies, it also cheated millions of shareholders using questionable accounting practices design...
competency and expertise. Thus, the first code of ethics was tentatively drawn up. However, there was very little way to enforce t...
real-life scenario does not produce a fully-grown replica, as one so often sees in the movies, but rather suggests that a human ba...
is a biblical scholar and the other is a Christian ethicist, and they bring together their individual competencies to offer a comp...
the team to make a decision. The advantage of the casuistry approach to ethical decisions is that the team finds some sort of co...