...Module One Essay Murder is wrong. One should always tell the truth. It is not right to steal. Most people would agree with the aforementioned phrases. However, what are they classified as? Do these expressions deal with morality, ethics, or both? Although these terms are often confused, morality and ethics are very distinct. On the surface this terminology may seem analogous, but their definitions are quite dissimilar. Morality and ethics are major components when examining the decision making of corporations. Despite having different meanings, morality and ethics are interrelated words that play a major part in business organizations. Morality The term morality deals with an individual or groups interpretation of what is right and wrong. In fact, it can be defined as the standards that a group or individual has about what is good and evil or right and wrong (Velasquez, 2006). Morals for the most part, are fairly unwavering within a group. The vast majority of people would agree that it is wrong or immoral to murder, steal, lie, or cheat. These are examples of moral standards. Moral standards are described as the types of behaviors or actions believed to be morally good or bad (Velasquez, 2006). There is also what is known as nonmoral standards. These principles judge what is good or bad in a nonmoral way such as good grammar or proper etiquette (Velasquez, 2006). In addition to understanding the meaning of morality, it is important to understand where these...
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...Jacob Davis Prof. Michael Leeds BIS 221 - Mon 5:30 Ethics of Gun Manufactures Guns have long been a staple of the American dream. The U.S. far surpasses the rest of the world in guns owned per capita, not to mention the amount of revenue generated from arms manufacturing, which helped cultivate one of the largest economies in the world.(Rabkin, 143) Recent shootings such as Sandy Hook Elementary in Newton, Connecticut have sparked large debate between politicians and citizens over gun rights. Although there are many tangents to discuss about gun rights the questions remains, are gun manufactures morally responsible for the harm caused by their products, or does the responsibility lie in those who purchase them? As long as the product is not defective, I will argue the accountability falls not on the manufacture, but instead to the gun purchaser, for two reasons, liability and education. Is it ethical for the manufacture of a product to be liable if their product is in fact not defective (functions as it should), but is used criminally by another. Gun manufacturers feel that they do act responsibly. The manufacturers sell only to distributors and dealers who have FFL (Federal Firearms License) issued by the U.S. government for the purpose of firearm commerce. The dealers maintain they cannot be held responsible for legal sale to an individual who in turn disposes of the firearm to a disqualified person, or if legal sale results in a crime down the road due to a theft...
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...The truth between the lies The Truth Between The Lies Lying is inevitable. We see it in our everyday lives. We see it in the moments we used to tell our mothers we were done with our homework. We witness it pour out of the mouths of politicians. We even see it in those that we trust the most. Little white lies are the most common, outward lies are often less common; even so they are both considered lies. Lies come in many degrees, but their purpose is the same, lies are meant to deceive. Stephanie Ericsson plunges deep into this subject. She mentions in her article “The Ways We Lie” that a lie, whether in good faith or not is never a good thing to do. The result of a lie is always something hurtful. Ericsson says that as bad as lies are, telling the truth all the time is nearly impossible. Doing so would mean dealing with some harsh consequences, so we decide to just lie instead. In many nations lies are the status quo, they are both hidden and public. Many people though either don’t bother to point them or are not even aware of them in the first place. One type of lie is group thinking: this is when a group suppresses different, creative, or complicated ideas that unlikely to happen. By only considering some ideas and not others it leads to an ignorant sense of loyalty to the group and a not so smart final decision. For example, in Dec, 5, 1941, after many warnings about the Japanese planning a military attack the U.S just dismissed it as a fluke. The United States reasoned...
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...Therefore, people should be allowed to bear arms because it protects the sanctity of life. On the other hand, those supporting gun laws may suggest that the government has a duty to protect its citizens by taking away anything that can be used to harm them. However, a deeper examination of the theory shows that the action behind opposing gun laws violates the principles of morality. For example, the intention of people bearing arms is to kill or harm criminals and other people with bad intentions. However, Kant clearly states that it is morally wrong kill irrespective of the circumstances. Killing or harming others violates the universal law, human dignity, and treats people has a means to an end. Therefore, the theory supports the idea that people should act ethically by avoiding situations that would cause harm to other people. This seems to back the intentions of the supporters of the gun laws. The theory suggests that the only way to thrive in preventing situations that can lead to harm, is to take away guns. Stricter gun laws could help prevent people with the wrong intentions, or mind set, access to guns. Therefore, with hope, prevent a further rise in unappropriate violent occurences from the use of...
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...current system tells us to “take the blue pill and live with your chronic disease” while the other hand says to “take the red pill so we can see the effectiveness of our new miracle drug!”. What our health care system is lacking is a patient-centered health care model that cares for patients like human beings instead of test subjects. What I found most intriguing about this weeks reading is how we have been tricked into believing that the “New Right” ideology is morally based and has nothing to do with increasing the profits of big corporations. In fact some of us are led to believe that corporate interests lie within improving our lives with ‘fancy new medical machines’ and ‘high tech’ facilities, along with new miracle drugs that ‘make it easier to live’ with our newly developed chronic diseases. We have internalized the notion that our health care system is the best, and changing the status quo or returning to pluralist care systems (which are ‘socialist thoughts’ by todays standards) would be immoral and limit our rights or freedoms as American citizens. The countervailing powers at work highlighted by Light’s “Countervailing Power: The Changing Character of the Medical Profession in the United States,” is described in this sentence: …Capitalism comes face to face with itself, for driving the growing sovereignty or domain...
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...------------------------------------------------- Strategic Management ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Ryanair Q1. The business model framework is composed of several items; the price, the services, the distribution/the communication, human resources, organization/management, and operation/processes which should all be serving the strategy that the firm wishes to pursue. The following explains how Ryanair has been able to offer low fare tickets in Europe, using the above mentioned elements in the framework. The core business of Ryanair is to be a budget airline, and its strategy in order to achieve competitive advantage in that market is, regarding pricing, focused on keeping them as low as possible by cutting all extra expenses. Ryanair manages to offer lower prices than its competitors by sticking to only offering the basic service- which is the air transport from one city to another. All the extra services that are usually included in the price of other conventional airplane companies are charged as extra-costs by Ryanair. For instance, Ryanair’s clients have to pay for checking in luggage, as well as food and beverages inside of the airplane. In relation to Ryanair’s product offer, its service, the firm pursues the following to keep prices low. In order to limit the number of ground staff at the check in desk, Ryanair’s customers are increasingly encouraged to check in online. Furthermore, Ryanair...
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...Military and Societal Values 2799 words (8 double-spaced pages) Colonel Malham M. Wakin, in his evening address, asks whether Plato's claim that "knowledge is virtue" is true. Much contemporary experience suggests otherwise. To some extent, such an observation could apply to the military as well. Col Wakin argues that we do have some basic knowledge about human conduct, but that we live in a highly pluralistic society in which some practices reject that basic knowledge. Nonetheless, even though we draw members of the military from that pluralistic society, the uniqueness of the military function will always keep its leading practitioners apart from the mainstream of civilian society. The military profession swears to defend the values, the lifestyle that incorporates the minimal conditions for human dignity. After examining the convergence of the values that are functionally necessary for the military and those that we know are fundamental to social existence, he concludes that a competent military profession can serve as a moral anchor for its parent society. I Many years ago when I learned I was going to have the opportunity to study philosophy at the graduate level, I was tremendously excited. What a wonderful opportunity this would be, I thought, to sit at the feet of Socrates and be enlightened by those who studied the crucial problems of human existence. I expected that senior philosophy professors would be marvelous role models in their personal lives and I looked...
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...Siddhartha Gautama. Siddhartha said that there were four noble truths and that the only way to save ourselves from suffering was to follow the eightfold path. Siddhartha’s teaching was to help us reach the ultimate goal “enlightment (nirvana), freedom from the cycle of conditioned existence”. It all started with the birth of a child named Siddhartha Gautama who later on is known as the Buddha. Siddhartha was born around present day Lumbini, Nepal around 563 BCE he was born into a wealthy family and was a prince of the Sakya Clan. Siddhartha was raised by his aunt who was his father’s second wife because his mother died when he was seven days old. It is believed that when Siddhartha was a baby a holy man said that he would be either a great politician and unite India or he would be a great religious leader. Siddhartha lived a life of luxury and his father was very careful as to block all negative things from Siddhartha’s sight. His father did not want him to see old age, sickness, death, and a monk. The holy man had warned him that if Siddhartha say all these signs he would become a religious leader. When Siddhartha was 16 he married Yosadora and they had a baby whom they named Rahula. Siddhartha was discontent with his life and it is believed that when he went out of the palace four times and saw the four sights his father was trying to prevent him from seeing he decided to leave his family and find out how to overcome suffering. Now the prince who had had all the luxuries anyone...
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...He’s My Brother Leona Sinclair PHI 107: Philosophy of Human Conduct Professor: Kevin Lines December 13, 2010 He’s My Brother Introduction: Many people believe that same-sex marriage will destroy or diminish the righteousness of marriage between a man and a woman. It is my true belief that same-sex marriage will have negative effects only on people who are extremely religious, or extremely afraid. Many religious sects have been ferociously fighting against the legalization of same-sex marriage. In every article, column, and essay that I have read there has yet to be one single individual, or group of people that are entirely against the legalization of same-sex marriage unless they are tied to a church. It is unfair and unconstitutional that same-sex couples that have been together for many years, lives together and may even have children are not allowed the same benefits of an opposite-sex marriage. Church and state are supposedly separate, until God fearing representatives of the U.S. decide that they are against an issue they may not like, or agree with and then, and only then, it is "ok" to instill the morals of the church into the state. The issue aforementioned has been strongly debated not only in individual states, but by the country as a whole. Most states (38 states total) have adopted laws and policies that allow the union of same sex couples and in a few instances even grant them marriage licenses, although they are not recognized by a single...
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...What is Morality? It is one question that has been debated over by people since the beginning of time. Yet, even today, not one person can say what morality really is. Morality is a matter of opinion. In his book Education in the Moral Domain, Larry Nucci, a psychologist at the University of Illinois at Chicago is somewhat helpful in distinguishing this. Nucci believes there are three areas that encompass social behaviour: First, the personal domain, where individuals have preferences for things that have no factual measurements (for ex: gum over lollipops). Secondly, the domain of social conventions, where rules could be different and it wouldn't make any difference and thirdly the moral domain, where behaviours and intrinsically right or wrong. In cultures around the world people are accustomed to the idea that people are in authority of them and rules enforced by that authority. In my essay, an argument will be made that morality and law are not independent of each other by examining the teaching of morality to children, who is to blame for children behaviours and the religious morality of the ‘Ten Commandments’. Before it can be determined if one has morals, one has to know exactly what morals are. Lord Devlin, in an essay "Morals and the Criminal Law" in The Philosophy of Law (ed R.M Dworkin), Oxford (1977) at p 74"Society means a community of ideas; without shared ideas on politics, morals and ethics, no society can exist. Each one of us has ideas about what is good...
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...Leadership What it means to be a leader differs to people. There have been many theories on leadership and historical leaders that people try to emulate. Studies have found that the term leadership is broad. Nevertheless, they have found that the common denominator in the definition of leader. A leader is someone that has “the ability to influence a group toward the achievement of a vision or set of goals.”- (Robbins & Judge, 2010, p. 339). There are many managers that think they are leaders but that would not necessarily be true. Although the terms manager and leader are often used interchangeably, a manager is “an individual who achieves goals through other people.”- (Robbins & Judge, 2010, p. 340). All leaders are managers but not all managers are true leaders. After further analysis, one will come to realize that there are strategic, ethical, legal, and organizational concepts that must be taken into account if a leader is to be effective. Furthermore, as Christians we must be mindful of what we do. A Christian leader should heed the advice of the wise and never compromise their integrity. There have been theories and debates about whether leaders are born or created. Trait theories of leadership has discovered that many of history’s greatest leaders have some common denominators. According to these theories charismatic, enthusiastic and courageous people are more effective leaders. Meanwhile, behavior theories argue that leadership can be developed. Citing that...
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...arguments are evaluated. Both sides of the argument for and against same-sex marriage are discussed while the reader is given a respect for the position of supporting marriage equality. Same-Sex Marriage Traditionally, marriage has been defined as both a religious and civil institution that has been afforded to one man and one woman in the promise of love. Modern, more liberal ideologies have challenged this view. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) people have been at the forefront of championing the cause for the right to expand the definition of marriage to allow everyone to enjoy the same rights and privileges, without discrimination, as their heterosexual counterparts. Amongst the privileges that they seek are to love, honor and cherish their spouses in equal recognition to their heterosexual counterparts. This paper argues that LGBT people should be allowed to marry because homosexual couples are citizens with fundamental rights, moral standing, and parental abilities equal to their heterosexual counterparts. Families and Parenting The first argument concerning same-sex marriage involves the definition of a functional and nurturing family. Many same-sex couples wish to have the opportunity to raise children; opponents often cite their view that a same-sex household is by its...
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...* ortfolio * Help * FOUN1301 Law, Governance, Economy and Society | S3 15/16 Page path * Home / ► * Semester 3 15/16 / ► * FOUN1301 | S3 / ► * General / ► * Graded Discussion 2 ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form SearchSearch forums Bottom of Form Graded Discussion 2 Second graded discussion question: Graded Discussion 2: Opens June 13 closes June 17, 2016 @ 3:30 pm (EC Time) (15 marks). Question: Evaluate whether the Westminster model system of government adopted by English speaking Caribbean countries accommodates corruption Graded Discussion 2 by Sophia De La Rosa Williams - Wednesday, 15 June 2016, 9:05 AM Westminster system of Government can be defined as a democratic,parliamentary system of Government modelled after that of the United Kingdom system , as used in the Palace of Westminster (the Parliament of the United Kingdom).This system is a series of procedures for operating a legislature.It is used in most commonwealth nations.Corruption is the abuse of entrusted power for private gain. It can be classified as grand,petty and political,depending on the on the amount of money, lost and the sector where it occurs.According to Arnold Heidenheimer corruption is "perversion or destruction of integrity in the discharge of public duties by bribery or favour".I think it is safe to say that corruption and the Westminster system go hand in hand, the Westminster system has an inbuilt lack of checks and balances...
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...Social Problems, Vol. 14, No. 3. (Winter, 1967), pp. 239-247. WHOSE SIDE ARE WE ON?* HOWARD S. BECKER Northwestern University T o have values or not to have values: the question is always with us. When sociologists undertake to study problems that have relevance to the world we live in, they h d themselves caught in a crossfire. Some urge them not to take sides, to be neutral and do research that is technically correct and value free. Others tell them their work is shallow and useless if it does not express a deep commitment to a value position. This dilemma, which seems so painful to so many, actually does not exist, for one of its horns is imaginary. For it to exist, one would have to assume, as some apparently do, that it is indeed possible to do research that is uncontaminated by personal and political sympathies. I propose to argue that it is not possible and, therefore, that the question is not whether we should take sides, since we inevitably will, but rather whose side we are on. I will begin by considering the problem of taking sides as it arises in the study of deviance. An inspection of this case will soon reveal to us features that appear in sociological research of all kinds. In the greatest variety of subject matter areas and in work done by all the different methods at our disposal, we cannot avoid taking sides, for reasons firmly based in social structure. W e may sometimes feel that studies of deviance exhibit too great a sympathy...
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...ETHICS IN A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS Joe Casey Milltown Institute PREAMBLE I want to begin with some comments on what led me to the topic of ethics and A Man for All Seasons. I had been looking at some fairly heated exchanges in the late 1990s in the journal Philosophy and Literature between Richard Posner and Martha Nussbaum on the possibility of ethical criticism (Posner 1997, 1998; Nussbaum 1998). Briefly, Posner takes up what he believes to be an aestheticist stance that ethics has nothing to do with literature, so that ethical criticism is ruled out, whereas Nussbaum argues that literature can be ethical and ethical categories legitimately be applied to it. In the background is Nussbaum’s view that certain works of literature may be necessary for ethics (Nussbaum 1990). Neither position seemed entirely satisfactory. It appeared evident to me, as against Posner, that literature could provide ethical insights, but Nussbaum’s suggestion that ethics is dependent on literature seemed too strong. But whatever the merits of the latter thesis, the weaker thesis that literature can be ethically revealing is worth defending. At some level a great work of literature represents a form of human existence, to which we may respond as human beings. That there is a moral dimension to human existence I assume. Hence, it seems clear that literature may represent that dimension. Robert Bolt’s 1960 play can serve as an instance of how literature can stimulate...
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