Someone who holds that everyone should let self-interest guide their actions is a 1. Personal egoist 2. Personal hedonist 3. Impersonal egoist 4. Impersonal hedonist 1. The view that equates morality with self-interest is 1. Stoicism 2. Egoism 3. Hedonism 4. Platonism 1. Psychological hedonists hold that humans are by nature 1. Virtuous 2. Selfish 3. Altruistic 4. Immoral 1. The view that we should always act so as to produce the greatest possible balance of good over bad
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right and wrong Basic Principles / Key Terminology Important Variations in that family What to look for in student responses Knowledge of theory Application of theory EB EP Copyright Gregory B. Sadler, 2011 Five Theories Egoism the self and its needs Utilitarianism overall pleasure and pain for all concerned Deontology duty Care Ethics relationships, vulnerability, and empathy Virtue Ethics character EB EP Copyright
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to customers or other related stakeholders. Businesses have evolved into many distinctive forms, but for all of them the goal to maximise their profit is nevertheless in common. This everlasting aim of business is more or less in line with ethical egoism theory that ‘it is necessary and sufficient for an action to be morally right that it maximises one's self-interest’ (The Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, 2010). According to this theory, the spa owners’ irresponsible and dishonest act was ethically
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leadership, charismatic leadership, servant leadership, transformational leadership. Five western ethical theories (philosophical egoism, utilitarianism, Kantianism, ethics of virtue, ethics of responsibility) are analyzed to see to what extent their basic concepts could be connected to one or the other leadership approach. Findings – A given ethical theory (such as philosophical egoism) could be suitable to the components of various leadership approaches. Ethical leadership does not imply that a given leadership
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not have stumbled across the way to do it, it would have been provided to you, and those are two different things. 2. Assess the morality of what the curious applicants did from the point of view of egoism, utilitarianism, Kant’s ethics, Ross’s pluralism, and rule utilitarianism. Egoism: They were morally right as long as their actions promote their long term interest helps the greater good. Utilitarianism: If the actions balance, good over bad for everyone affected by the actions they were
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Bible and come up with all kinds of reason they cannot follow what is right in the sight of God. Egoism is the idea that self-interest or personal happiness should be the goal of all actions (Weider, 2014). A person with psychological Egoism everyone acts only in their own interest, even though people may seem to act altruistically they are only acting for their own self- interest. Ethical egoism is morally would help a person the most the long
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Rebeca Sánchez November 10, 2014. Boiler Room Boiler Room can be define as: “ a place where high-pressure salesperson use banks of telephones to call list of potential investors (known as “sicker list”) in order to peddle speculative, even fraudulent, securities”. Is called a boiler room because of the high-pressure selling. The movie centers on the life of a young man named Seth Davis, who lived in New York. He had decided to drop off from the university and run an underground casino, which was
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and benefits the mother not the unborn fetus, this is what Unitarians refer to as :ethical egoism”(Mosser,2010). Relativist view is just a little less judgmental, suggesting that some situations may be determined morally correct while others simply remain wrong. In this paper neither the argument that neither the Unitarian view nor the Relativist view are completely correct. The suggestion that Ethical Egoism is the foundation within all humans suggest that only one individual’s perspective is the
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0Name & section_________________________ 5/2/12 Southeast Missouri State University Spring 2012 Dr. Cesarz Dept. of Pol. Sci., Philosophy & Religion Exam III UI 400 Business & Ethics Multiple choice: Choose the option that best answers the question or completes the statement. Some of the questions are paired and to be read together. 1. Contrary to some contemporary writers
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An Untimely Rivalry In the short story “Enemies” the narrator describes the interaction between two men that have had significant losses in their lives. The first man, Kirilov, is a poor, country doctor that has just lost his son to disease while the second man, Abogin, is a rich merchant who has lost his wife to infidelity. These men, as described by the narrator, could not be more different from each other, but circumstances dictate that they actually share something in common: grief. Throughout
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