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Essays 181 - 210
achieved" (Kay , 1997). That is, Kant said that it was not the outcomes of actions that were important but the intent of the perso...
the person to do what is right for themselves (Sager, 2009). With persuasion, the decision is clearly left to the consumer and the...
with good and bad (Boeree). An example of this is when people ask one another for advice (Boeree). Egoism is another premise. It d...
the general population are serviced. There should be no preference due to the fact that someone knows one of the workers, or becau...
plagiarism sometimes enters the picture. For example, after a certain number of years, a copyright is exhausted and writers can us...
the balloon, and certain gestures, were definite responses to the environment and evidence of consciousness, but the doctors disag...
made to render the greatest happiness for the greatest number. That is all that utilitarianism is equated with. There are differen...
beliefs and attitudes. Most of us have many different values and attitudes. Self-accountability is one value by which I try to liv...
matters and this aspect of Benthams theory is called hedonistic utilitarianism ("Utilitarianism," 2005). Bentham (1988) further s...
a prison takeover (Burke, 1995). Though unusual, if something like that were to happen, officials would be at an extreme disadvant...
is caused by eating an animal. As a utilitarian, Singer focuses more on the consequences of the act and not the consequences of f...
roughly 12 percent of the displaced employees a change at relocation within the company. Forty percent would be hired by the new b...
the street ... must and will reflect our personal moral standards" (Reavley, 2001). Those moral standards, Reavley implies, must ...
commandment "thou shalt not kill", for example, are forced to re-examine their views in the light of military service in wartime, ...
are doing is unethical. Why? The majority of people are not environmental activists and they do not care about the trees. Of cours...
dealing with the actual philosophies and how they fit into the auditing profession. What well do, first of all, is define what it ...
administration that is tied to a clandestine love affair. Forbes prints a small article regarding another type of conflict of inte...
perhaps for good reasons but with disastrous results over the long term. Community over self is more obvious and calls to m...
that this is wrong. They believe that there is an intrinsic morality and that women should not be executed for committing adultery...
the face of it, to go against the utilitarian principle of the "greatest good of the greatest number", taking a more long-term vie...
Long-term solutions carry "higher personal risks and an intangible measure of worth" (Schafer, 2002; p. 14). 2. Utilitarianism A....
who also figure prominently in the decision-making process by virtue of the arguments they offer for courts consideration and the ...
taken ten years to be resolved (2003). These authors also report there are so many lawsuits being filed related to the set-aside p...
of moral realistic thought and debate. Thomas Hills "Moral Agency Presupposes Autonomy of the Will"...
ethical, philosophical, and moral issues that characterize the one delivery mechanism also characterize the other. A particular c...
is a theory that a student writing on this subject should certainly explore. Central to utilitarianism is the premise that it ...
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....
things, some of which were not the original intent of Jeffersons vision. Having money has come to be equated with a sense of free...
2004). John Stuart Mills, in his book Utilitarianism, further stated that not all forms of pleasure were of equal value (Free-Defi...