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    (Redirected from Utilitarian) Jump to: navigation‚ search This article discusses utilitarian ethical theory. For a discussion of John Stuart Mill’s essay Utilitarianism (1861)‚ see Utilitarianism (book). The Utilitarianism series‚ part of the Politics series Utilitarian Thinkers[show] Jeremy Bentham John Stuart Mill Henry Sidgwick Peter Singer Forms[show] preference utilitarianism rule utilitarianism act utilitarianism Two-level utilitarianism Total utilitarianism Average

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    Managing Organisations “In order to successfully manage a culturally diverse workforce‚ managers should undertake diversity training. Discuss to what extent you agree with this statement‚ illustrating your answer with reference to company practice around the world.” ” It has been demographic organizational change in the last two decades. In the beginning‚ diversity management is a supposedly new management paradigm from USA that to deal with the inequality and diversity issues of the workplace

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    Utilitarianism and the Theory of Justice* by Charles Blackorby‚ Walter Bossert and David Donaldson August 1999 revised August 2001 Prepared as Chapter 11 of the Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare K. Arrow‚ A. Sen and K. Suzumura‚ eds.‚ Elsevier‚ Amsterdam Charles Blackorby: University of British Columbia and GREQAM Walter Bossert: Universit´ de Montr´al and C.R.D.E. e e David Donaldson: University of British Columbia * We thank Don Brown‚ Marc Fleurbaey‚ Philippe Mongin‚ John Weymark

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    Philosophia (2008) 36:141–150 DOI 10.1007/s11406-007-9094-4 A Dilemma for Rule-Consequentialism Jussi Suikkanen Received: 30 April 2007 / Revised: 23 July 2007 / Accepted: 7 August 2007 / Published online: 3 October 2007 # Springer Science + Business Media B.V. 2007 Abstract Rule-consequentialists tend to argue for their normative theory by claiming that their view matches our moral convictions just as well as a pluralist set of Rossian duties. As an additional advantage‚ rule-consequentialism

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    ETHICS‚ MORAL CHARACTER AND AUTHENTIC TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP 09/02/2006 12:42 PM Revised 9/24/98 BMB ETHICS‚ CHARACTER‚ AND AUTHENTIC TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP Bernard M. Bass and Paul Steidlmeier Center for Leadership Studies‚ School of Management Binghamton University‚ Binghamton‚ NY 13902-6015 Ph. (607) 777 4028‚ (607) 777 2376 Fax (607) 777 4188 E-mail: bbass@binghamton.edu psteidl@binghamton.edu Running Head: Ethics and Authentic Transformational Leadership... Abstract The

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    Branches of philosophy The following branches are the main areas of study: • Metaphysics investigates the nature of being and the world. Traditional branches are cosmology and ontology. • Epistemology is concerned with the nature and scope of knowledge‚ and whether knowledge is possible. Among its central concerns has been the challenge posed by skepticism and the relationships between truth‚ belief‚ and justification. • Ethics‚ or ’moral philosophy’‚ is concerned with questions of how

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    Foot Euthanasia

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    Euthanasia Author(s): Philippa Foot Source: Philosophy & Public Affairs‚ Vol. 6‚ No. 2 (Winter‚ 1977)‚ pp. 85-112 Published by: Wiley Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2264937 . Accessed: 18/04/2014 22:06 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars‚ researchers‚ and students discover‚ use‚ and build upon a wide range of

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    CHAPTER 1 Sustainable Marketing: An Overview D uring humankind’s recorded history‚ extensive and sophisticated consumption systems have evolved to meet the needs of the earth’s human population. When the population was small‚ the activities involved in providing the food‚ clothing‚ housing‚ and other products (goods and services) demanded by people left virtually no "footprint" of pollution in the air or on the land‚ freshwater bodies‚ or oceans. But with world population now estimated

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    Artificial intelligence From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search "AI" redirects here. For other uses‚ see Ai (disambiguation). For other uses‚ see Artificial intelligence (disambiguation). Artificial intelligence (AI) is technology and a branch of computer science that studies and develops intelligent machines and software. Major AI researchers and textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents"‚[1] where an intelligent agent is a system that

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    Fundamental issues in the ethics of marketing [edit]Frameworks of analysis for marketing ethically Possible frameworks:  Value-oriented framework‚ analyzing ethical problems on the basis of the values which they infringe (e.g. honesty‚ autonomy‚ privacy‚ transparency). An example of such an approach is the AMAStatement of Ethics.[1]  Stakeholder-oriented framework‚ analysing ethical problems on the basis of whom they affect (e.g. consumers‚ competitors‚ society as a whole).  Process-oriented

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