hcc 2nd exam review
... We ought to choose the action which looks most likely to produce most happiness. In order to do so we should usually be guided by those general rules which have been formulated as a result of the long experience of men in society: The beliefs that have come down are the rules of morality for the mul ...
... We ought to choose the action which looks most likely to produce most happiness. In order to do so we should usually be guided by those general rules which have been formulated as a result of the long experience of men in society: The beliefs that have come down are the rules of morality for the mul ...
Bernard Williams: A Critique of Utilitarianism Phil 240, Introduction to
... “the idea, as we might first and very simply put it, that each of us is specially responsible for what he does, rather than for what other people do. This is an idea closely connected with the value of integrity.” ...
... “the idea, as we might first and very simply put it, that each of us is specially responsible for what he does, rather than for what other people do. This is an idea closely connected with the value of integrity.” ...
Conscience Formation
... • Some of your friends are using gross language as they discuss their relationships with their girlfriends. • Your math test is 6th period and your friend from 3rd period is willing to give you a heads-up as to what is on the test. ...
... • Some of your friends are using gross language as they discuss their relationships with their girlfriends. • Your math test is 6th period and your friend from 3rd period is willing to give you a heads-up as to what is on the test. ...
Servais Pinckaers: Returning to a Thomisitc Morality of Happiness
... Since the virtues are directed towards the fulfilment of this higher supernatural goal, man is given the real possibility of achieving both his own natural happiness and fulfilment, and ultimate communion with God through beatitude. This is precisely what Pinckaers attempts to show by linking the fu ...
... Since the virtues are directed towards the fulfilment of this higher supernatural goal, man is given the real possibility of achieving both his own natural happiness and fulfilment, and ultimate communion with God through beatitude. This is precisely what Pinckaers attempts to show by linking the fu ...
Moral Enhancement - Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
... when it endangers others Immorality of not drinking ...
... when it endangers others Immorality of not drinking ...
Moral Development - Gordon State College
... Understanding the social order, law, justice and duty ...
... Understanding the social order, law, justice and duty ...
conflict of interest policy - Northern Panhandle Workforce
... confidence and respect of employment and training officials, professionals, and the public. Since every management decision affects the well-being of individuals and our community, board members and their executives must evaluate the possible outcome of every decision and accept full responsibility ...
... confidence and respect of employment and training officials, professionals, and the public. Since every management decision affects the well-being of individuals and our community, board members and their executives must evaluate the possible outcome of every decision and accept full responsibility ...
Slide 1
... responsibilities are defined by governments in laws that management is expected to obey. For example, U.S. business firms are required to hire and promote people based on their credentials rather than to discriminate on non-job-related characteristics such as race, gender or religion. ...
... responsibilities are defined by governments in laws that management is expected to obey. For example, U.S. business firms are required to hire and promote people based on their credentials rather than to discriminate on non-job-related characteristics such as race, gender or religion. ...
Ethics and the Professions
... People do not have a moral obligation to one another to provide for the emotional and physical health of others. 12. Reasons Supporting Alternative: According to act utilitarianism, pornography could be moral if it brought about the most happiness. There are some circumstances in which people would ...
... People do not have a moral obligation to one another to provide for the emotional and physical health of others. 12. Reasons Supporting Alternative: According to act utilitarianism, pornography could be moral if it brought about the most happiness. There are some circumstances in which people would ...
chapter 2 - TEST BANK 360
... 2. Egoism is the consequentialist theory that an action is right when it promotes the individual’s best interests. Proponents of this theory base their view on the alleged fact that human beings are, by nature, selfish (the doctrine of psychological egoism). Critics of egoism argue that (a) psycholo ...
... 2. Egoism is the consequentialist theory that an action is right when it promotes the individual’s best interests. Proponents of this theory base their view on the alleged fact that human beings are, by nature, selfish (the doctrine of psychological egoism). Critics of egoism argue that (a) psycholo ...
Moral Leadership
... These are a set of maintained values; so long as your values are in line with your schools ethic wondrous things will happen. In our society it is generally acknowledged that we all have the right to exist independently of our connections with government, school, community, and other groups. However ...
... These are a set of maintained values; so long as your values are in line with your schools ethic wondrous things will happen. In our society it is generally acknowledged that we all have the right to exist independently of our connections with government, school, community, and other groups. However ...
Lectures 6-7 Deontological & Consequential Ethics
... significant exclusion here is that of herself. Therefore, be prepared go on willing the maxim even if it contains no reference to herself. The constraint that the second formula imposes is that the maxim of an action must be such that any other free and rational person can adopt it. Treating humanit ...
... significant exclusion here is that of herself. Therefore, be prepared go on willing the maxim even if it contains no reference to herself. The constraint that the second formula imposes is that the maxim of an action must be such that any other free and rational person can adopt it. Treating humanit ...
Lectures 14-15: Deontological & Consequential Ethics
... significant exclusion here is that of herself. Therefore, be prepared go on willing the maxim even if it contains no reference to herself. The constraint that the second formula imposes is that the maxim of an action must be such that any other free and rational person can adopt it. Treating humanit ...
... significant exclusion here is that of herself. Therefore, be prepared go on willing the maxim even if it contains no reference to herself. The constraint that the second formula imposes is that the maxim of an action must be such that any other free and rational person can adopt it. Treating humanit ...
APSperception2012
... Multiple motivational influences on perception have been found: those who are fatigued or carrying heavy objects or even in a negative mood perceive distances as further away or hills as steeper (Balcetis & Dunning, 2010; Bhalla & Proffitt, 1999; Proffitt et al, 2003; Stefanucci et al, 2008). The re ...
... Multiple motivational influences on perception have been found: those who are fatigued or carrying heavy objects or even in a negative mood perceive distances as further away or hills as steeper (Balcetis & Dunning, 2010; Bhalla & Proffitt, 1999; Proffitt et al, 2003; Stefanucci et al, 2008). The re ...
Alasdair MacIntyre on the Enlightenment Project
... nature, their ‘true nature’, there would be nothing to educate or to tutor. We would have no idea of what an un-tutored nature would be as distinct from a tutored nature. There would be no way of objectively articulating that now tutored, or somewhat so, and that understanding that there is somethin ...
... nature, their ‘true nature’, there would be nothing to educate or to tutor. We would have no idea of what an un-tutored nature would be as distinct from a tutored nature. There would be no way of objectively articulating that now tutored, or somewhat so, and that understanding that there is somethin ...
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... article I will take up some of these questions. I will be mainly concerned with questions about moral theory rather than with questions in moral theory. One reason why questions about moral theory have been relatively neglected is because, until recently, there appeared to be widespread agreement ab ...
... article I will take up some of these questions. I will be mainly concerned with questions about moral theory rather than with questions in moral theory. One reason why questions about moral theory have been relatively neglected is because, until recently, there appeared to be widespread agreement ab ...
File - Ethics and Society
... According to the formula of humanity as an end in itself, it is necessary for us to respect a person’s dignity. It is wrong to treat persons as objects, i.e. as mere means (純粹手段) to our own ends. For Kant, it is not necessarily immoral to treat a person as a means as long as we do not treat them ...
... According to the formula of humanity as an end in itself, it is necessary for us to respect a person’s dignity. It is wrong to treat persons as objects, i.e. as mere means (純粹手段) to our own ends. For Kant, it is not necessarily immoral to treat a person as a means as long as we do not treat them ...
What is Platonism
... which pattern our life and thought more to accord with the Eternal. Plato present five 'core' transcendent virtues. These include the traditional four cardinal virtues of Courage, Wisdom, Moderation, and Justice. In some places he suggests a fifth: Holiness. In any case, Plato is insistent on the un ...
... which pattern our life and thought more to accord with the Eternal. Plato present five 'core' transcendent virtues. These include the traditional four cardinal virtues of Courage, Wisdom, Moderation, and Justice. In some places he suggests a fifth: Holiness. In any case, Plato is insistent on the un ...
When Soldiers Aren`t Heroes: An Essay
... force must therefore be justified. That is, even within the military’s own premises about war, it cannot be moral to use lethal violence (or support others in so doing) simply because one is told to do so. One can simply note here that soldiers are commanded by rule not to follow unjust commands, su ...
... force must therefore be justified. That is, even within the military’s own premises about war, it cannot be moral to use lethal violence (or support others in so doing) simply because one is told to do so. One can simply note here that soldiers are commanded by rule not to follow unjust commands, su ...
Teaching Research Ethics: Changing the Culture of Science
... consent may work well in medical research but less well in observational research or in research involving indigenous groups. The concept of privacy may need rethinking when it involves research on subjects in the “public” sphere. Finally, compliance education can lead researchers to think that as l ...
... consent may work well in medical research but less well in observational research or in research involving indigenous groups. The concept of privacy may need rethinking when it involves research on subjects in the “public” sphere. Finally, compliance education can lead researchers to think that as l ...
Moral Philosophy and Business
... W.D. Ross held that we have certain specific moral obligations to others as well as those that are more general. These obligations might conflict, and so our obligations are at least mostly prima facie ones—obligations that can be overridden by more important considerations. ...
... W.D. Ross held that we have certain specific moral obligations to others as well as those that are more general. These obligations might conflict, and so our obligations are at least mostly prima facie ones—obligations that can be overridden by more important considerations. ...
Full Decision
... The advertisement also contained an extensive list of various products with the corresponding sale price recorded next to it, some of which showed a discount of 50%, and some showing a lesser discount. Complainant, R. Harris, said: “ ‘We’ll go halves’ really means everything must be 50% off, yet the ...
... The advertisement also contained an extensive list of various products with the corresponding sale price recorded next to it, some of which showed a discount of 50%, and some showing a lesser discount. Complainant, R. Harris, said: “ ‘We’ll go halves’ really means everything must be 50% off, yet the ...
Ethics - Handout 22 Susan Wolf, "Moral Saints"
... Need either the Kantian or the utilitarian saint have one thought too many? That will depend on what kinds of motives we recognize as morally admirable… (5) What about Wolf’s broader claim about the proper place of morality, as one set of values among others, rather than an overarching thing that en ...
... Need either the Kantian or the utilitarian saint have one thought too many? That will depend on what kinds of motives we recognize as morally admirable… (5) What about Wolf’s broader claim about the proper place of morality, as one set of values among others, rather than an overarching thing that en ...
Ethical Relativism 2 Kinds of Relativism: ethical relativism and social
... our communal living. Morals are constructed for a purpose, to help us live well together. (Analogy with law; contrast between natural law and legal positivism.) This constructivist view allows us to accommodate the strengths of the naturalism, intuitionist and emotivist views: each captures somethin ...
... our communal living. Morals are constructed for a purpose, to help us live well together. (Analogy with law; contrast between natural law and legal positivism.) This constructivist view allows us to accommodate the strengths of the naturalism, intuitionist and emotivist views: each captures somethin ...