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Lying is Never Ethical

not all agree with that assessment. Harvey began to mistrust the government which could prove dangerous if he were to become invo...

A Kantian View of The Helene Hegemann Plagiarism Case

representative of a different generation, one that freely mixes and matches from the whirring flood of information across new and ...

Arguments in Favor of Gambling

times. However, not all societies approve of it or approach it in the same way. Since there is a great deal of criticism of it as ...

Unethical Policy: Don't Ask, Don't Tell

policy for dealing with the issue of gays and lesbians serving in the US military was implemented by the Clinton administration as...

Ethics and the Kantian Paradox

should treat other people as ends in themselves rather than as means to an end, and that one should act in such a manner that cons...

Beta Thalassemia Condition Testing and Medical Ethics

In five pages this paper examines the ethics of testing a child for this rare and fatal condition using Kantian and utilitarian ph...

The Relationship between Kantian Theory and Environmental Destruction

The writer discusses Kantian Theory, which says that people who do not live up to their ethical responsibilities have no respect f...

Second Trimester of Pregnancy and Abortion Rights

some point, the fetus has a face, but perhaps cannot survive on its own. The question becomes whether or not this fetus is a human...

Euthanasia and Medical Ethics

such morality, we render ourselves essentially useless. In other words, Lachs contends that it is one thing to expound about the ...

Decisions from a Moral Perspective

remembered that slavery was legal until the mid-nineteenth century and racism and discrimination were likewise legal until the mid...

Implications of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

of the marketplace by big business (Bittlingmayer, 2002). Catanzaro (2000) accuses President Richard Nixon of using antitrust law ...

The Dax Cowart Case Examined Philosophically

due to the fact that she was in so much pain. However, in the case at hand, the situation was far more serious. If one accepts th...

Case Study on Ethics and Morality in the Workplace

According to Kantian theory, private employee monitoring - at least, without informing the employee - is not moral, no matter how ...

Business Ethics and Policy

religious ideology) and the various "sciences" of business (Parker S27). Quite often these arguments have attempted to negate the ...

Ford Pinto Case and the Categorical Imperative of Immanuel Kant

In ten pages this paper discusses the rights and virtue theories as well as utilitarianism, cost benefit analysis, ethics, solutio...

Kantian Ethics Applied to the Abortion Issue

the nineteenth century, abortion was seen as the only recourse for women who had become pregnant due to being lured into the bed o...

Utilitarianism v. Deontology

a beneficial consideration in determining the different ways of applying deontological and utilitarian constructs. Recent legisla...

Police Work Ethics and Moral Philosophy

In ten pages this paper examines law enforcement work in an assessment of ethics and moral philosophy with the Amadou Diallo case ...

Overview of Environmental Ethics

alert the masses as to the underlying consequences of individual actions. A prime example of this concept is the notion of paying...

Moral Duty According to John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant

In five pages this paper examines the ethics of moral duty within the context of Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill and the politi...

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...

Ethics According to John Stuart Mill and Mo Tzu

did not invent the principle of utility (which goes back to Plato) however, he was the first to devise a comprehensive theory base...

Military Duty and Kantian Ethics

rationalism of Leibniz and the skepticism of Hume" (Immanuel Kant). Kants bottom-line position is that individuals should act fro...

Enron Scandal and Business Ethics

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

Boeing Company and Theories of Ethics

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

Living By A Code, Ethics, Liberty, and Morality

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

Kantian Ethics and a World Hunger Evaluation

an emotional argument such as that, it is not sufficient to prompt a true, logical conclusion regarding the problem of world hunge...

Probation Service and Ethics

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

Doing Good and Medical Ethics

Oath. This was traditionally taken by all graduating doctors, but many institutions do not insist on it toady. The original oath h...

Aristotle's Perspectives on Evil

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