UNIT THREE MORAL AGENT A) Definition: MORAL AGENT A being whose actions are capable of moral evaluation. A competent and reasonably mature human somebody that has a capacity for making moral judgments and for taking actions that comport with morality. What characteristics does a moral agent has? Exist no universal / standard definition of a moral agent Moral agent possesses three criteria Moral Content
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relatively permanent‚ it is considered to be a developmental change. The environment can also influence our behaviour‚ feelings or thoughts‚ and change our development. Genetics can also be a factor in development. Moral development involves the gradual development of an individual’s concept of right and wrong. It includes the development of conscience religious values‚ social attitudes ad certain behaviour. Research undertaken by Laurence Kohlburg has been broken down into 3 different subheadings and 6
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Moral and ethical issues greet us each morning in the newspaper‚ confront us in the fundamentals of our daily jobs‚ encounter us from our children’s daily school activities‚ and bid us good night on the evening news. We are bombarded daily with discussions of drug abuse‚ the morality of medical technologies that can prolong our lives‚ the rights of the homeless and abortion‚ the fairness of our children’s teachers to the diverse students in their classrooms‚ and sexual morality. Dealing with these
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Moral rights in Canadian copyright law are protected under the Copyright Act of Canada and include an author’s right to attribution‚ integrity and association of a work. Moral rights are to be distinguished from economic rights; moral rights essentially being derived from the reflection of the author’s personality in his or her work‚ whereas economic rights grant an author the ability to benefit economically from their work. An author of a work retains moral rights for the length of the copyright
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Utilitarianism? Utilitarianism is an ethical framework for effective moral action. It’s a philosophical concept that holds an action to be held right if it tends to promote happiness for the greatest number of people. The essence of utilitarianism is in its concept of pleasure and pain. It defines the morally right actions as those actions that maximize pleasure or happiness and minimize pain or evil. Utilitarianism is all about making the right choices that will consequently promote the greatest amount
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Reason why people give up on ethics Self-interest sometimes morphs into greed and selfishness‚ which is unchecked self-interest at the expense of someone else. This greed becomes a kind of accumulation fever. “If you accumulate for the sake of accumulation‚ accumulation becomes the end‚ and if accumulation is the end‚ there’s no place to stop‚” he said. The focus shifts from the long-term to the short-term‚ with a big emphasis on profit maximization. For example‚ swaps (where two communication
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BUSINESS ETHICS 2008 Outline : A) General overview. B) Utilitarian theory. C) Kant theory. C) Rawls theory. D) Conclusion. Foreword: This research paper discusses theories in business ethics. It also considers three cases that illustrate ethics principles violation. Thesis: Nowadays in the era of economic relations and international trade business ethics plays a very important role. Nowadays in the era of economic relations and international trade business ethics plays a
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Moral Responsibility Brian Hadley PHI200 Dr. Maul 11/26/12 Moral Responsibility Around the world‚ in many third world countries‚ human suffering is caused by many causes like ethnic cleansing‚ starvation‚ war‚ poor living conditions‚ natural disasters‚ and more. According to Peter Singer (1972) in his article “Famine‚ Affluence‚ and Morality” people and governments have not properly done enough to help others in emergency situations‚ like the situation in East Bengal during the 1970’s where
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Q1. Explain how utilitarian might prove a defence for Roche and how a rights-based ethic might instead condemn Roche’s drug trails in China. A. According to the Utilitarian Ethics point of view that support the benefits of greater number of people compare to the loss of fewer people or supports the idea that gives happiness to the majority. As far as this case is considered utilitarian does support Roche’s drug tests on transplant patient because the test helps the company to create medicines like
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on an as needed basis on the insurance side. Several years ago‚ I bought a program called the Insurance Profit s System; it is not a project based program. However‚ it had many of the foundational steps that were laid out for the Project Management Maturity Model (PMMM‚) such as creating common process for agents so we are all doing and saying the same things. This is a project we took on as a company and it took approximately a year and half to get through all the required steps. All of the employees
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