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Article Review, Software Development Study

when the user-participants were not allocated any developmental responsibility, the participants nevertheless felt a significant i...

Three Essays on Philosophy and Ethics

made to render the greatest happiness for the greatest number. That is all that utilitarianism is equated with. There are differen...

Violations of Copyrights and Ethics

plagiarism sometimes enters the picture. For example, after a certain number of years, a copyright is exhausted and writers can us...

Persistent Vegetative State Patients and Ethical Decision Making

the balloon, and certain gestures, were definite responses to the environment and evidence of consciousness, but the doctors disag...

Three Questions in Philosophy

humans, it is not necessarily the best thing to do. Kant also supports a categorical imperative principle which suggests that some...

Utilitarianism: The Views of Bentham and Mill Compared

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

Personal Code Of Ethics

beliefs and attitudes. Most of us have many different values and attitudes. Self-accountability is one value by which I try to liv...

Dickens/Utilitarianism & Hard Times

he is absolute appalled that Sissy does not know the scientific definition for "horse," and that his own children have been tempte...

Ethics in Health Care

that birth occurs when a woman is in the youthful childbearing years. A student asks: " Should age be factor in permitting pregnan...

Utilitarianism

with good and bad (Boeree). An example of this is when people ask one another for advice (Boeree). Egoism is another premise. It d...

Whistleblowing's Effect on Ethical Organizational Behavior

in order to accomplish a number of goals, both those of the organization and those of individual participants" (p. 44). According...

A Utilitarian Approach to Sports

school, and despite working as many hours as I could, I knew I could never afford tuition, so I had to win a scholarship. Winning ...

Animal Rights, Preference Utilitarianism, and Peter Singer's Theory of Rights

is caused by eating an animal. As a utilitarian, Singer focuses more on the consequences of the act and not the consequences of f...

Lex Service Group CAT Analysis

roughly 12 percent of the displaced employees a change at relocation within the company. Forty percent would be hired by the new b...

Philosophical Views on 'Wrong' Lying

a prison takeover (Burke, 1995). Though unusual, if something like that were to happen, officials would be at an extreme disadvant...

Kant, Utilitarianism and Consequentialism

every objection. What is perhaps striking is that Mills theory is applicable to a variety of situations. Unlike Kant for ex...

Creating a Personal Ethical Philosophy

that this is wrong. They believe that there is an intrinsic morality and that women should not be executed for committing adultery...

Philosophy and Morality

a certain set of circumstances, and that would not be acceptable as a moral guide. B) Consider a new law that requires people wit...

Auditors and Ethics

dealing with the actual philosophies and how they fit into the auditing profession. What well do, first of all, is define what it ...

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 ...

Religious Prejudice and Ethics

perhaps for good reasons but with disastrous results over the long term. Community over self is more obvious and calls to m...

Cases of Conflict of Interest

administration that is tied to a clandestine love affair. Forbes prints a small article regarding another type of conflict of inte...

Case Study Analysis of Environmentalist Ethics

are doing is unethical. Why? The majority of people are not environmental activists and they do not care about the trees. Of cours...

Legal Profession and Ethics

the street ... must and will reflect our personal moral standards" (Reavley, 2001). Those moral standards, Reavley implies, must ...

Honesty and Ethics in Philosophy

commandment "thou shalt not kill", for example, are forced to re-examine their views in the light of military service in wartime, ...

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...

Capitalism Ideas of Karl Marx

other businesses, had been taking place which would eventually result in the workers favor. Transfer of ownership of these busine...

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...

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...