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Business Ethics and Ethical Theory

ethical theory, utilitarianism and deontology often enter the picture. Mill (2001) for example, who is a utilitarian, claims that ...

How Self-Interest Has Ruined America

market because they lack the resources to develop it? Or those who cannot compete because the barriers to entry are too high for t...

Ethical Considerations on Human Trafficking in the Middle East

trafficking, even within the different cultures and in the Middle East, is reflected with the majority of countries in that area s...

Political Parties and Framers' Intent

themselves rather than work for the good of the country overall. Publius Complaint The Pennsylvania Council of Censors met ...

Organizational Theory And Unifying A Nation

details about the exact smears that were used.] Another of the differences with the 2004 election had to do with information tech...

3 Classical Philosophies and Animal Rights

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

Case Study on Toxic Waste Exporting and Ethics

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

Moral and Ethical Decisions in Business

(Himma, 2003). Throughout their lifetime, individuals are presented with moral dilemmas and situations in which they must make a ...

Ethical Views of the Movie Saving Private Ryan

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

Justice and Ethics

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

Styles of Making Legal Decisions

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

Moral Acceptability of Set Aside Business Programs

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

Utilitarianism and its Weaknesses

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

Responsibility According to John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant, and Aristotle

his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...

John Locke and Natural Law

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

Ethics of Capital Punishment Case Study

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

Slashing Home Health Care and Ethics

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

Ethical Validity of Conscription

Halberstadts involvement with the military didnt end after Vietnam. Indeed, he has moved in and out of the military circle for de...

US and New Zealand Uses of Alcohol and Tobacco

smoking everyday and a further 6% smoking occasionally, 28% were ex smokers (ASH, 1999). The patterns here are clear, young female...

Liberal Government and Utilitarianism According to J.S. Mill

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

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...

Cablevision and The Cable TV Industry

If we isolate out industry consideration to the cable television companies that we can look this as a mature industry. In 1997 the...

Nursing Applications and the Ethics of Stem Cell Research

of stem cell research far outweigh the negativities. Because of these benefits stem cell research can be ethically defended utili...

Brave New World Philosophical Analysis

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

Courts and Ethics

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

A Business Dilemma and the Ethics of Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, and Thomas Hobbes

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

Immorality of Surrogate Motherhood

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

Inability to Ever Justify Cheating

to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...

Limited Liability and Justifying It Philosophically

Rawlsian justice is concerned with the idea of justice being fair and good, and it has a hope that social institutions do not give...

Utilitarian System and Its Demands

in subconscious thought. John Stuart Mill fit into the general history of political, economic and social thought by applying his ...