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Freedom and Morality in Kant's Ethics
Kant's Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals is an exploration and argument that seeks a universally binding first principle for morals. Kant presents an essay in which empirical observations and facts are not adequate to answer the question of, why be moral? Instead Kant relies on theoretical concepts, such as autonomy, morality, duty and goodwill to explain how necessity and causality are ordered. In this essay I will attempt to explain the Kantian connection between
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Ethics of Dignity and Freedom
Ethics of Dignity and Freedom SUBDOMAIN 110.1 - Competency 110.1.4 Kant's theory of the Categorical Imperative was the first ethical theory to be based on the concepts of the dignity and freedom of man and the concept of reason as opposed to moral obligations derived from God, other human authorities or the preferences or desires of human agents. He believed that morality could be summed up in one ultimate principle. He called it the Categorical
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Ethics of Gay Marriage
Ethics of Gay Marriage What do you think when you see two guys walking down the sidewalk holding hands? Our society is based on improving and recreating to reach perfection. Yet there is this situation of "unnatural" marriage and most of our society wants it eliminated. If you think about the ethics of it though, you'll see that both sides have an equal argument in the dilemma. If you look at the ethical reason behind
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Ethics
The question of "right and wrong" has fueled a debate between great philosophical minds for centuries. What designates something as "right" and something else as "wrong"? Is there a so-called ultimate moral principle that human beings should obey? Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill present different philosophies regarding this fundamental issue, which inevitably beg to ask the question of what ultimately guides a person's moral choices. Kant asserts that ethical decisions are based on a
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The Ethics of Keeping Pets
Animals are the under-appreciated co-inhabitants of our planet. I believe that animals should be afforded equal consideration to humans. The only criteria for equal treatment should be the ability to feel pain. As we can demonstrate that all animals with a backbone can feel pain, then all animals with a backbone should be treated with equal consideration to humans. Their needs should be considered and met in the same way a human's would be. This
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Consumer & Marketing Ethics
CONSUMER & MARKETING ETHICS ARMAMENTS The Arms Trade The arms trade is a very sensitive topic and one that holds many preconceptions regarding the industry, the governments and the companies who produce them. It has turned into a huge trade, which has become very profitable for many companies who manufacture them for their countries, and for many rich governments who sell them to countries where civilians are deprived of simple human rights because of this.
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Engineering Ethics
I never really knew anything about ethics until I read The Civilized Engineer. I had heard people use the word ethics before and had a roommate that had taken an ethics class but did not look into it more. Since I had not taken a class on it, I figured it must not be that important. Now I realize how important ethics really are and understand a lot more about the topic. I agree
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Ethics and Martha Stewart's Indictment
There has been much media coverage of the circumstances surrounding the indictment of Martha Stewart on charges of securities fraud and obstruction of justice as well as her subsequent conviction and prison term. When one considers her position as the CEO of a multi-million dollar corporation, her actions in relation to the criminal case have numerous ethical implications in the business world. This paper analyzes those actions in order to answer the question: Did Ms.
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Digital Rights Management and Ethics
A prevalent issue in our society that often makes me question my own moral standards is the topic of intellectual property rights, as it relates to music downloads via the internet. In recalling my youth, I remember when this issue was of no concern to major record labels that produce and distribute musical compositions. Originally, there was not a convenient or cost effective way for the consumer to make copies of vinyl records. When the
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Aristotle and Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle provides the teleological approach of how to live well in his collection of lectures, Nicomachean Ethics. In Book II of Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle presents his definition of virtue in which it is "a kind of mean" (N.E. 129). According to Aristotle, moral virtue is a means to an end, happiness. By using Sophocles's Antigone, I will support Aristotle's theory of virtue in which he reasons it to be a state of character between two
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Nicomachean Ethics - Friendship
In Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, he states that there are three types of friendships that can be obtained- the friendship of pleasure, the friendship of utility and the friendship of good. The friendship of pleasure is a relationship based on the simple enjoyment of being around a particular person; the friendship of utility is a relationship based on convenience. In other words, this friendship has no real meaning behind it, other than this person is around
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Computer Ethics
Computer Ethics A Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics (see Appendix A) was first presented by Dr. Ramon C. Barquin's in his paper for the Computer Ethics Institute of the Brookings Institution entitled, "In Pursuit of a 'Ten Commandments' for Computer Ethics" in May of 1992. Computer ethics is about principles related to behavior and decisions made by computer professionals and users, including software engineers, operators, managers, policy makers, as well as educators and students. This
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Nietzsche Ethics
Nietzsche's work On the Genealogy of Morality is themed to the concept of the Master-Slave Morality. Nietzsche explains that there are two types of morality, the master morality as well as the slave morality. The two types are not simply inverses of each other, but two different value schemes. The first system is the Master Morality system. In this, we have the opposed sides of good and bad. It all begins with the Ð''noble man'
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Ethical Subjectivism
Ethical Subjectivism presents many problems since the main attitude is that feelings are the only determining factor in the decision making process. As we all know, feelings can be very misleading at times. We've all been in situations where we've felt strong about a decision and came to find out that our decision was the wrong one. If you used Ethical Subjectivism in the case study involving Happy Trails, you would never come to a
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What Is Business Ethics?
What is Business Ethics? Business ethics is exactly the same as normal ethics, and that knows what is right or wrong, and learning what is right and what is wrong in a business environment. Then doing the right thing, but "the right thing" is not as straightforward as explained in many business ethics books. Most ethical dilemmas in the workplace are not simply a matter of "Should she steal from him?" or "Should he lie
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Ethics of Stem Cell Research
Ethics of Stem Cell Research Chris Benner CRT 201 - Instructor Eva White Ethics of Stem Cell Research In November of 1998, the issue of stem cell research first broke onto the scientific scene when researchers reported the first isolation of human embryonic stem cells. This discovery, made by Dr. James A. Thomson, a biologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, offers great promise for new ways of treating diseases. Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, MS, ALS, juvenile
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Ethics Analysis Paper
Ethics Analysis Paper #1 Due: February 15, 2007 Words: 1638 Today's society leads us to many questions and concerns. It often feels that there are pulls in every direction to make everything right. Nothing seems to be wrong anymore. However, then again, many situations constituted in the past as right, are now condemned to be wrong. Should everything be tolerated without judgment? In earlier generations, behaviors of right and wrong were based, for the most
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Current Ethical Issue in Business
CURRENT ETHICAL ISSUE IN BUSINESS INTRO Ethical issues in business are a common placed every day occurrence that will never cease to exist. We will discuss an ethical issue that involves a large American corporation and its practices when dealing with suppliers of produce that is essential but not solely used by this business. We will present several point of views backed by literary findings that suggest ethical practices may or may not be
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Ethical Issues in Business
Current Ethical Issue in Business PHL 323 Ethics in Management Business Ethics Ð'- Intro Managers are faced with ethical and moral decision making in business dealings everyday. The way people make ethical decisions in their personal lives most times is not the same way that people make these decisions when they are in a business environment. Business decisions need to be grounded in ethics, but the manager also needs to make decisions that are in
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Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper
Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper Culture consists of patterns, explicit and implicit, of and for behavior acquired and transmitted by symbols constituting the distinctive achievement of human groups, including their embodiments in artifacts; the essential core of culture consist of traditional ideas and especially their attached values. The basis of all human artifacts, behaviors, and beliefs is the groups' specific value system. Values as "conceptions of the derisible" represent the core of any
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Clonong Uses & Ethics
Cloning: Uses & Ethics Within the last few years, talk of bioengineering has exploded from the science world and become part of our everyday lives. From the foods we buy at the grocery store, to the pets we own in our homes, and even our own bodies, we are all affected by the breakthroughs in cloning. The intended use for cloning, and other bioengineering science was to advance medicine, conservation, and food production, making our
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Atonement Ethics
Atonement is to compensate, amend or satisfy a wrong. Briony is the one responsible for the wrong act that needs atoning. A lot was running through this thirteen year old mind before setting out with this act. Firstly, she witnessed what seemed to her as sexual apprehension between her sister, Cecilia, and Robbie at a water fountain outside her window. After seeing her sister stripped down to her underwear, she misunderstood this as aggression on
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Copyright Laws, Napster and Personal Ethics
Copyright Laws, Napster and Personal Ethics Abstract: The current lawsuits against Napster have brought out new ethical issues surrounding the exchange of MP3s and copyrighted material on the Internet. This paper discusses the ethical case against those who participate in MP3 trading services such as Napster and suggests ethical alternatives to these services. The free exchange of CD-quality music in the form of MP3s has created quite a stir in the media in the past
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Is Euthanaisa Ethical?
“Is Euthanasia Ethical” by some random dude Euthanasia is a major ethical topic all around the world. Euthanasia is the deliberate killing of a person for the benefit of that person. In most cases euthanasia is carried out because the person who dies asks for it, but there are cases in euthanasia where people are unconscious, in a coma or unstable and can’t make that decision. Some people focus on how people should die without
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Stem Cell, Health Care Ethics Class
Stem cells are cells that can form into any type of cell, they are found in bone marrow, embryos, fetuses, and blood from the umbilical cord. Early in development, a human embryo is made up of a hollow ball of cells called a "blastocyst". Blastocyst cells divide and eventually develop into all of the tissues and organs of a human being, a process called "differentiation". Embryonic stem cells can be grown in the laboratory from
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