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the primary location where policy is derived. There are myriad ethical considerations in the daily world of business, and each on...

matters and this aspect of Benthams theory is called hedonistic utilitarianism ("Utilitarianism," 2005). Bentham (1988) further s...

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

This 8 page paper explains the theories of both Bentham and Mill, and argues that corporate America should embrace a mild form of ...

study, many infants actually died as a result because the women could not properly store the man-made food. Here, the moral dile...

to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...

with happiness, but the instant gratification achieved through immoral pleasure is not as good. It goes beyond that. Does one give...

circumstances or the surrounding empirical conditions (158). Kant goes on to elaborate on this point but concludes with an interes...

who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...

here on Earth. This of course, did not go over well with the Church who was used to organizing everyones life on Earth. Reason, th...

reason (Kants Ethics, 2003). In his famous, Critique of Pure Reason, Kant "sought to answer the skepticism of empiricists like Hu...

other ends. Such an end might already exist, or might be something which the actor strives to bring about by his actions. In 4:428...

because the baby will stop crying, but killing the baby is wrong. The problem is that the test seems to yield false positives (436...

one belonged. Kant believed that accessing this moral law which was indeed universal consisted of relying on our own instincts, n...

the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctrine of virtue. This is also further subdivided...

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

an enlightened age?" the answer is, "No, but we do live in an age of enlightenment." " (PG). Kant incidentally does write during t...

lives. If a knife is to someones throat, should he or she lie in order to save his or her life? Many people would say yes, but to ...

beautiful. However, how can one make such judgments without purpose? Why is something wrong? If there is no purpose to life no one...

other words, it must be a universal law. For instance, killing is wrong. That would have universality. If the woman decides she sh...

event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...

world, few governments would allow either situation to exist. Yet, it would be troubling for anyone to be completely dominated by ...

manner in order to attain end-E" (Honderich, 1995, p. 436). For example, a person might resolve to pay a bill as soon as it is rec...

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

ideals clearly possessed an understanding that many people had no "maturity" and no real understanding of enlightenment. Kings mis...

according to The Columbia Encyclopedia is "imposition of penalty of death by the state" (Capital Punishment, 1993). Altho...

Know You Know? According to Waittenmaker (1999), research has demonstrated that it is an individuals background knowledge that ha...

not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...

past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...

In five pages this paper considers 3 formulations regarding a single categorical imperative as presented in this philosophical tre...