1. What philosophical principle did Google's managers adopt when deciding that the benefits of operating in China outweighed the costs? Ans. When it comes to the benefits outweighing the cost in China, apparently, Google’s managers adopt utilitarian approach, because according to utilitarian philosophy, “it focuses attention on the need to weigh carefully all of the social benefits and costs of a business action and to pursue only those actions where the benefits outweigh the costs” . For Google
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the company. The company was aware that the vaccine will not produce enough profit for the company, but yet the company wanted to develop ethics. Merck and river blindness are a good example for Utilitarianism theory because the results brought happiness for both the company and the people. Utilitarianism is an ethical framework that focuses on the outcomes or results of actions. In fact, its name comes from the Greek word Telos, which means “end.” The two most influential developers of the utilitarian
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After I read Mill’s notion of higher and lower pleasures, I changed the view of my opinion about higher and lower pleasures. Before that, I thought we just need happiness, and then it will be ok. I never think about what kind of pleasures are higher or lower. Through Mill’s view, it’s really difficult to define higher and lower pleasure. But at least, Mill equates happiness with pleasure, and not all pleasures have equal value; higher pleasures of the mind are better than lower pleasures of the body
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Teleological ethics – determines the rightness of an action or decision based solely on the consequences of that action or decision. Teleological moral systems are characterized primarily by a focus on the consequences which any action might have (for that reason, they are often referred to as consequentialist moral systems, and both terms are used here). Thus, in order to make correct moral choices, we have to have some understanding of what will result from our choices. When we make choices which
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Consumer Behavior from a Cardinalist and Ordinalist Approach Utility means satisfaction which consumers derive from commodities and services by purchasing different units of money.From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “Ineconomics, utility is a measure of satisfaction;it refers to the total satisfaction received by a consumer from consuming a good or service. “Given this measure, one may speak meaningfully of increasing or decreasing utility, and thereby explain economic behavior in terms of attempts
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significantly disappointed Jeremy did not give up. He realized that it will take more than just paintings or books to instantly change society’s way of thinking, so he joined forces with his friends to form a political movement which was the birth the Utilitarianism. The political party’s initial name was the "Philosophical Radicals", which was soon changed to
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from the conflict between a set of good values: honesty and loyalty. Luke has to decide to choose between being truthful to his brother, Owen, or loyal to the company he is employed by. ANALYSIS – APPLICATION OF ETHICAL LENSES/THEORIES Utilitarianism One method Luke can use to make his decision is the utilitarian approach. The Utilitarian approach assumes the idea that a decision is ethical if it benefits a majority of stakeholders. This approach would also require one to evaluate the consequences
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Preparation Name: - Class: - Native language: - Theme: 3. The problem is choice Subject: Ethics Thinker: Immanuel Kant Movie: Minority Report Ethics in Minority Report In the film Minority Report (Spielberg, 2002), all the murders in Washington DC have been prevented for the last six years by PreCrime, a system based on stopping the murders before they happen, with the help of “precogs”, three mutated humans with precognitive abilities. The to-be-murderers are caught and sentenced
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Assignment: Business Ethics Reflection Jessica Ybanez-DeLeon XMGT/216 April 3, 2011 Gary Cedrone Business Ethics Reflection Upon thinking back over several ethics dilemma I’ve encountered throughout my employment with the State of Arizona for 18 years, although there are many to choose from, only one comes to mind. My duties and responsibility were to establish and enforce child support cases. In this employment all employee’s were given access to many computer data base such as; social
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Utilitarianism ENG300 Information Literacy Assessment [Type the author name] This paper will discuss utilitarianism, its origins and how we can apply it to our lives today. I will show what would happen if everyone adopted this code of ethics and reasoning, and why I chose it. Utilitarianism What is Utilitarianism? According to our textbooks, utilitarianism is the ethical system which believes that which is ethical is what will bring the greatest good or happiness
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