Professional Values and Ethics Learning Team A University of Phoenix The purpose of this paper is to explain the impact of professional values and ethics can have on one’s career. It will explain how adhering to such values can lead to a successful career and how straying from those values can destroy both a career as well as an individual. This will be done by identifying three sources of professional values and describing their impact on a career. Values and Ethics Anytime a person
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The branch of ethics that discusses the meaning and indeed the validity of the word good is called Meta-ethics, meaning ‘beyond' ethics lies ethical language. From here there are two separate branches, cognitive; where "goodness" can be known as an analytic or synthetic property of the world and non-cognitive; where "goodness" cannot be known as a property of the world. Within the non-cognitivists are another group called emotivists, they uphold the view that the word good is merely an expression
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categories in which we can place the ethical theories: teleological and deontological. From the first category we enumerate the Aristotelian perspective or the one developed by J. St. Mill, while the Kantian perspective is exemplary for deontological ethics. According to the teleological perspective, a form of human behavior is described as moral or non-moral according to the goals explicitly set. The mere achievement of these goals is a necessary and sufficient condition to qualify as moral people’s
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considered not to have any understanding of existence, and that only after living for a certain amount of time can they possess such knowledge, which leads to their beliefs and reasons for pro-abortion. “Peter Singer and others continue to contend that life is not sacred…these Naturalist believe that abortion, infanticide and euthanasia under certain circumstances should be de-criminalized where current law is in place” (Weider & Gutierrez. 2011, p57). 3. The Question of Meaning/Purpose All
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NATURALISM _______________________________________________ Research Essay _______________________________________________ In partial fulfilment of the requirements in Introduction to Philosophy and Worldviews at Cornerstone Institute _______________________________________________ by Leeandri Smith 32156 28 April 2013 Contents Describing Naturalism
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is similar to the basic premise of utilitarianism on the other hand religions look beyond the immediate world of happiness and suffering to a greater, eternal life. This is teleological but not in the sense a utilitarian would act on. Situation ethics is similar to Act utilitarianism, with Mill’s refinement of happiness found in the principle of agape love. Mill argued that we should maximise welfare and improve the lives of the majority. This seems to be in line with traditional religious teachings
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“Virtue ethics is of little use when dealing with practical ethics.” Discuss. It is often argued that virtue ethics is of little use when dealing with practical ethics. Virtue ethics does not focus on actions being right or wrong, but on how to be a good person. Virtue ethics raises three questions “who am I?”, “Who I ought to become?” and “How do I get there?”. On the other hand Practical ethics describes situations where an action is needed. Firstly virtue ethics goes back to Plato and Aristotle
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but morally required that we employ cloning to produce embryos or fetuses for the sake of providing cells, tissues or even organs for therapy, followed by abortion of the embryo or fetus. (Journal of Medical Ethics 1999; 25:87-95) Keywords: Cloning; transplantation; autonomy; embryonic stem cells; fetal tissue; embryo experimentation; abortion; potential Cloning for Medical Purposes Cloning for survival? It all started back in the fifties when James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the
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Logical Concepts an overview What is logic? • Logic is the science of reasoning, • which is to say: the academic discipline that investigates reasoning. What is reasoning? • reasoning is inferring (deducing) • to infer is to draw conclusions (output) from a premise or set of premises (input). An Example of Reasoning You see smoke And you infer That there is fire (input) (deduce) (output) Another example of Reasoning You count 19 people in a group; which originally had
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Stem-ulating Research Michael Eldridge Abstract Stem cell research has the potential to be the next “big thing.” Stem cells have been around for a very long time, however the research is only a little over ten years old. Stem cells are tiny immature cells that can become any kind of cell in a person’s body. Like everything else in society today stem cell research comes with some controversy. Some controversy comes from the fact that aborted fetuses are used to get stem cells. As always there
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