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The State and Virtue According to Alexis de Tocqueville and Aristotle

Virtuous action was defined by Aristotle as what a person with practical wisdom would choose. The golden mean, as defined by Ari...

Justice, Philosophy, and Ethics of Health Care Rationing

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...

Immanuel Kant's Theories on Ethics

ethics, or those which are based on moral obligation and duty. Kant argued that "the moral status of an action is not determined b...

Royal Dutch Shell, Enron, and Business Ethics

those who were relying on the company for pensions, directly or indirectly, those who worked for them, and those who worked for co...

Interaction Between the Body and the Mind According to Baruch Spinoza

also saw mind and body as two separate substance. The Descartes position on the mind-body problem combines the idea of substance d...

Work Ethics of Filmmaker Steven Spielberg

so that he could become a television director at Universal Studios for a salary of $225 per week (Cagle, 2002). After serving an ...

Edwin O'Connor's The Last Hurrah, Joe Klein's Primary Colors, and Political Ethics

lesser of the two evils approach, but yet an approach that clearly illustrates how far the lack of ethics and morals in the politi...

Selective Abortions and Medical Ethics

be ethical, considering that there is still a high degree of false positives. Still, the argument is, at least theoretically, that...

Enron Scandal and Business Ethics

benefit from various government subsidies, it also cheated millions of shareholders using questionable accounting practices design...

An Ethics Program and Monitoring System

there are laws that for examples prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender or race (Ferrell, Fraedrich & Ferrell, 2008). At t...

The Independence of Auditors; the Australian Perspective

of independence. Independence in different roles not only the role of the auditor, but also independence within remuneration and s...

Influences on Management Functions in McDonalds

corporate level, but also a store level, when planning the staffing rotas. Internal influences may come from individual employees ...

Different Views on Suffering

They really also want to get on with their lives. Dying takes a toll on families. It is easier if the individual dies sooner than ...

An Ethical Analysis of Cardinal Health

is risk involved with every international business decision, and ethics play a significant role. When it comes to the first examp...

A Personal Code of Ethics

tied to either philosophic or religious thought. In developing a unique, personal system, questions emerge. Should a code be c...

International Companies and Environmental Standards

hes making a bad joke (similar to President Bushs idiotic remarks at the recent environmental summit) or that hes writing a Swifti...

Ethical Codes Recommendation

than simply advise a company about whether or not they are in compliance with federal law (Pray, 2000). With the initiation of la...

Confidentiality Issues When Counseling Minors

laws governing confidentiality in psychological practice vary from state to state (Richmond, 2003). Generally speaking, psychol...

Historical Oveview of Architectural Ethics

competency and expertise. Thus, the first code of ethics was tentatively drawn up. However, there was very little way to enforce t...

Human Cloning Debate

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...

A Conversation Regarding Medical Ethics

they take care of themselves. I think it depends on how they have considered their condition. I mean, who has the greater chance o...

Global Society Values

Swift (2004b) says the evolution of organizational relationships that have been building for many years have "failed to provide us...

Ethics: The Views of Aristotle and Kant

life, white lies can protect people from hurt feelings. They can be used to motivate others to do good things. There are sometimes...

THERAC 25- A CASE STUDY

was notified that a patient in Hamilton had been overdosed. In addition, AECL informed the FDA and the Canadian Radiation Protecti...

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT: SUBSTANCE ABUSE AGENCY

This 10-page paper focuses on the development and running of a substance abuse agency in upstate New York. Topics include organiza...

Ethical Issues/Living Wills

precisely the same as for other patients. Legal responsibility for care decisions in cases where there is a living will: does the...

Theory-Driven Praxis—Personal Framework

Domain concepts Health: The traditional understanding of "health" is that is the absence of illness and/or injury. However, for ...

A Day in the Life of a CSI

evidence" (Byrd, 2000). He or she does this by first establishing a perimeter to "restrict access and prevent evidence destruction...

Corporate Governance

corporate governance has become an issue of regulation as seen with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 in the US which indicate the in...

Nurse Migration

developing countries, while it alleviating the nursing shortage in the industrialized countries to a certain degree, is creating a...