Ethical Concerns in Public Administration
... respect. A quest for wealth in itself is not bad. In fact, it is a mark of civilisational progress. What is important is the means employed while being engaged in this quest. We seem to be living in an economic or commercial society, where uni-dimensional growth of individuals seem to be accepted an ...
... respect. A quest for wealth in itself is not bad. In fact, it is a mark of civilisational progress. What is important is the means employed while being engaged in this quest. We seem to be living in an economic or commercial society, where uni-dimensional growth of individuals seem to be accepted an ...
Immanuel Kant
... unforeseen consequence what it may. It is possible that whilst you have honestly answered Yes to the murderer’s question, whether his intended victim is in the house, the latter may have gone out unobserved, and so not have come in the way of the murderer, and the deed therefore have not been done; ...
... unforeseen consequence what it may. It is possible that whilst you have honestly answered Yes to the murderer’s question, whether his intended victim is in the house, the latter may have gone out unobserved, and so not have come in the way of the murderer, and the deed therefore have not been done; ...
This paper thus proposes that only moderate forms of
... inferred that FGC violates universal moral values such as non-cruelty to humans, freedom of choice and the right to good health. According to Appiah, we would expect intervention to curb the practices of FGC to only have positive impacts since it is a form of wrongdoing. The case on FGC however dif ...
... inferred that FGC violates universal moral values such as non-cruelty to humans, freedom of choice and the right to good health. According to Appiah, we would expect intervention to curb the practices of FGC to only have positive impacts since it is a form of wrongdoing. The case on FGC however dif ...
Kant`s Categorical Imperatives
... according to Kant’s moral precepts, and especially according to a Kantian definition of duty… I meant by my remark about Kant that the principle of my will must always be such that it can become the principle of general laws.” ‘Eichmann also cited, in support of his Kantian attitude to his duty, the ...
... according to Kant’s moral precepts, and especially according to a Kantian definition of duty… I meant by my remark about Kant that the principle of my will must always be such that it can become the principle of general laws.” ‘Eichmann also cited, in support of his Kantian attitude to his duty, the ...
Is There Moral High Ground?
... there is no such thing as moral truth. This would be the result if one assumed a correspondence theory of truth, for from this point of view the naturalistic irrealist is denying the existence of what would normally be the naturalized truth-makers of moral claims. And no such moral truth-makers mean ...
... there is no such thing as moral truth. This would be the result if one assumed a correspondence theory of truth, for from this point of view the naturalistic irrealist is denying the existence of what would normally be the naturalized truth-makers of moral claims. And no such moral truth-makers mean ...
ethics training
... training as an extraneous expense when budgets are tight, but this is exactly when ethics training is needed most Employees who tend toward the relativistic belief ...
... training as an extraneous expense when budgets are tight, but this is exactly when ethics training is needed most Employees who tend toward the relativistic belief ...
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... However, the crucial point is that these interests are still present, even if weak when compared to those of a psychologically developed individual. The wrongness of killing a non-person therefore lies in the harm involved in frustrating these interests. Another element of overstatement in Giubilini ...
... However, the crucial point is that these interests are still present, even if weak when compared to those of a psychologically developed individual. The wrongness of killing a non-person therefore lies in the harm involved in frustrating these interests. Another element of overstatement in Giubilini ...
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... an organization, to look at the public not at the organization, as if the public would be the problem. The loss of confidence has indeed to do with how the public perceives the organizations, but this perception derives from their ethical deficit rather than from a bad communication with their publi ...
... an organization, to look at the public not at the organization, as if the public would be the problem. The loss of confidence has indeed to do with how the public perceives the organizations, but this perception derives from their ethical deficit rather than from a bad communication with their publi ...
Egoism
... Guilt seems to presuppose concern for others for their own sake. If it did not, why would we feel guilty for letting them suffer (PETA activist), or for letting them die (soldier)? If guilt presupposes concern for others, then concern for others is a motivating factor in human action, and PE is fals ...
... Guilt seems to presuppose concern for others for their own sake. If it did not, why would we feel guilty for letting them suffer (PETA activist), or for letting them die (soldier)? If guilt presupposes concern for others, then concern for others is a motivating factor in human action, and PE is fals ...
Institutional Integrity and Organizational Ethics
... ethics is merely a matter of opinion n Perception that this effort “pays off” in better outcomes for patients, families and staff, in short, it is “worth” the time, energy and money invested n The institutional culture must support folks doing the right thing because it’s the right thing to do ...
... ethics is merely a matter of opinion n Perception that this effort “pays off” in better outcomes for patients, families and staff, in short, it is “worth” the time, energy and money invested n The institutional culture must support folks doing the right thing because it’s the right thing to do ...
Ethical Pluralism as a Framework for Discussing Moral Disagreement
... sketching out a middle ground between absolutism and relativism. In teaching, I have been interested in exploring ways in which we visualize knowledge. ©Lawrence M. Hinman ...
... sketching out a middle ground between absolutism and relativism. In teaching, I have been interested in exploring ways in which we visualize knowledge. ©Lawrence M. Hinman ...
Information Technology And Control
... of teleological ethics (Trevino & Katherine, 1999; Pojman, 2002). Michalos (1995) states that this system follows the Beneficence Principle: one ought to act so that one’s actions tend to impartially improve the quality of life. Utilitarianism leads one to do what is most likely to have the best con ...
... of teleological ethics (Trevino & Katherine, 1999; Pojman, 2002). Michalos (1995) states that this system follows the Beneficence Principle: one ought to act so that one’s actions tend to impartially improve the quality of life. Utilitarianism leads one to do what is most likely to have the best con ...
187 “Goodness itself must change” – Anthroponomy in an age of
... changes. For much of human history, we could not have anticipated it. Climate change, species extinction, ocean acidification, soil erosion, global toxicity ... – they are unintentional; most couldn’t have foreseen them. Each change has a different story. Climate change accelerates on fossil fuel; ...
... changes. For much of human history, we could not have anticipated it. Climate change, species extinction, ocean acidification, soil erosion, global toxicity ... – they are unintentional; most couldn’t have foreseen them. Each change has a different story. Climate change accelerates on fossil fuel; ...
Moral Leadership - Regent University
... it consists of socially approved patterns and norms of proper conduct. Morality shades over into ethics when systematic reflection begins to occur…morality is pre-ethical; it exists prior to systematic, questioning thought on issues” (p. 22). Reeck’s definition excludes any relativism of morality an ...
... it consists of socially approved patterns and norms of proper conduct. Morality shades over into ethics when systematic reflection begins to occur…morality is pre-ethical; it exists prior to systematic, questioning thought on issues” (p. 22). Reeck’s definition excludes any relativism of morality an ...
Rightness and Responsibility
... connection between morality and motivation. At its heart is the thesis that rightness and other moral considerations represent reasons for people to act in accordance with them. This thesis is a version of the position that is sometimes called “rationalism” in ethics; if it is true, then we can say ...
... connection between morality and motivation. At its heart is the thesis that rightness and other moral considerations represent reasons for people to act in accordance with them. This thesis is a version of the position that is sometimes called “rationalism” in ethics; if it is true, then we can say ...
Utilitarianism: objections
... However, the theory still implies that if it was very unlikely anyone would find out, then it would be right to torture children. But other people finding out isn’t what makes torturing children wrong. This thought expresses two possible objections. First, we can point out that the example shows tha ...
... However, the theory still implies that if it was very unlikely anyone would find out, then it would be right to torture children. But other people finding out isn’t what makes torturing children wrong. This thought expresses two possible objections. First, we can point out that the example shows tha ...
Globalization versus Relativism: The Imperative of a Universal Ethics
... be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the others”. As it relates to globalization therefore, relativism tend to be making two points namely; that globalization threatens the flourishing of unique and distinct cultures and must be ...
... be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the others”. As it relates to globalization therefore, relativism tend to be making two points namely; that globalization threatens the flourishing of unique and distinct cultures and must be ...
09. Ethical and bioethical issues
... science and medicine. It falls under the general group of applied and professional ethics • It is predicated on an assumption that some solutions to the ethical problems that arise in science and medicine are more moral than others and that these solutions can be arrived at by moral reasoning and re ...
... science and medicine. It falls under the general group of applied and professional ethics • It is predicated on an assumption that some solutions to the ethical problems that arise in science and medicine are more moral than others and that these solutions can be arrived at by moral reasoning and re ...
Consequentialism and our special relationship to self
... that ground these relationships are also agent-relative, reasons that apply only to those that stand in these relationships. The agent-relativity is of course what renders these obligations ‘special.’ Our special relationship to our selves grounds options instead of obligations because, though this ...
... that ground these relationships are also agent-relative, reasons that apply only to those that stand in these relationships. The agent-relativity is of course what renders these obligations ‘special.’ Our special relationship to our selves grounds options instead of obligations because, though this ...
Egoism
... ship sank and a desperate man a few yards off is calling for help. There are no other survivors, the man has no chance without you, and you have no interest in saving him. EE suggests you have no duty to save the man since any such duty would have to be grounded in your having a reason to act, and, ...
... ship sank and a desperate man a few yards off is calling for help. There are no other survivors, the man has no chance without you, and you have no interest in saving him. EE suggests you have no duty to save the man since any such duty would have to be grounded in your having a reason to act, and, ...
Business Ethics: Case study of Primark Topic
... recently, it has been argued that in contrast with other stakeholders, such as workers, consumers and suppliers, whose rights are more or less fixed by work, purchase or sale contracts, shareholders face residual risks, associated with liability claims and possible loss of profits (Gibson, 2011). Th ...
... recently, it has been argued that in contrast with other stakeholders, such as workers, consumers and suppliers, whose rights are more or less fixed by work, purchase or sale contracts, shareholders face residual risks, associated with liability claims and possible loss of profits (Gibson, 2011). Th ...
Ethical Decision Making and Ethical Leadership
... Ethical issue intensity. What is it? And what is moral intensity? The answer to the first question lies in following: To what extent you view certain ethical issue as critical, problematic with negative consequences or not. It’s the importance you (or the team or the organization) attach to a certai ...
... Ethical issue intensity. What is it? And what is moral intensity? The answer to the first question lies in following: To what extent you view certain ethical issue as critical, problematic with negative consequences or not. It’s the importance you (or the team or the organization) attach to a certai ...
On the Relationship of Ethics to Moral Law
... reciprocity or re-engagement with the self following the command. Levinas calls my answer to the Other’s command “the saying” (Levinas 2001, p. 183). In answer to the command the subject says, “Here I am!” attesting to the responsibility of the self for the Other. The saying reveals my self to the O ...
... reciprocity or re-engagement with the self following the command. Levinas calls my answer to the Other’s command “the saying” (Levinas 2001, p. 183). In answer to the command the subject says, “Here I am!” attesting to the responsibility of the self for the Other. The saying reveals my self to the O ...
There Are No Ethical Leaders An Argument for Ethical Individuals Patrick Brousseau
... What is more important, acting ethically or being a leader? Theoretically, there is nothing which prevents both from occurring simultaneously. Yet practically, examples of conflict between the two abound. Imagine for instance an executive who faces the dilemma of either acting unethically or going b ...
... What is more important, acting ethically or being a leader? Theoretically, there is nothing which prevents both from occurring simultaneously. Yet practically, examples of conflict between the two abound. Imagine for instance an executive who faces the dilemma of either acting unethically or going b ...
Bernard Williams
Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams, FBA (21 September 1929 – 10 June 2003) was an English moral philosopher, described by The Times as the ""most brilliant and most important British moral philosopher of his time."" His publications include Problems of the Self (1973), Moral Luck (1981), Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (1985), and Truth and Truthfulness (2002). He was knighted in 1999.As Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and Deutsch Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, Williams became known internationally for his attempt to reorient the study of moral philosophy to history and culture, politics and psychology, and in particular to the Greeks. Described as an analytic philosopher with the soul of a humanist, he saw himself as a synthesist, drawing together ideas from fields that seemed increasingly unable to communicate with one another. He rejected scientism, and scientific or evolutionary reductionism, calling the ""morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists"" ""the people I really do dislike."" For Williams, complexity was irreducible, beautiful, and meaningful.He became known as a supporter of women in academia; the American philosopher Martha Nussbaum wrote that he was ""as close to being a feminist as a powerful man of his generation could be."" He was also famously sharp in conversation. Oxford philosopher Gilbert Ryle once said of him that he ""understands what you're going to say better than you understand it yourself, and sees all the possible objections to it, all the possible answers to all the possible objections, before you've got to the end of your sentence.""