by Chum Hamilton Environmental Ethics ENV362 Professor Dave Williams August 16‚ 2008 CONTENTS Pluralism and Environmental Pragmatism 3 My Response 6 References 9 Pluralism and Environmental Pragmatism With the widely differing theoretical environmental ethic philosophical frameworks that are currently espoused‚ it is clear that a single unified theory has not yet emanated from this discipline. This has frustrated “monists” within the discipline. Monists contend that there
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Ethics Case Study HCS/335 November 26‚ 2012 Terry Matherne Ethics Case Study In the scenario Jerry McCall is Dr. Williams office assistant. Jerry has received training for a medical assistant and licensed practical Nurse. Although Jerry is handling the incoming calls while the receptionist is at lunch a patient of Dr. Williams had called in the office and stated that he needed two refill an antidepressant and Valium right away because he is leaving the airport within 30 minutes.
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life. This practice with the terminally ill is known as euthanasia. Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia is a controversial topic that brings up many ethical issues and the rights of the patients the physicians serve. Many questions arise when this topic is discussed. For example‚ does an individual have the right to end their life‚ if prolonging it will only cause more pain and suffering? Should families‚ who do not want to lose a loved one‚ be allowed to prolong the pain in the life of a
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Ethics Case Study HCS/335 July 15‚ 2013 Ethics Case Study Ethics are an important aspect of an individual’s personal and professional life‚ as ethics help people determine whether their actions are right or wrong‚ good or bad‚ just or unjust‚ and fair or unfair (Fremen‚ 2009). In any career‚ strong workplace ethics and interpersonal ethics are essential. One situation is the case study involving Dr. William’s office assistant‚ Jerry McCall. Jerry received a call while sitting in for the receptionist
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ETHICS CASE Dilemma of an Accountant In 1976 Senator Lee Metcalf (D-Mont.) released a report on the public accounting industry which rocked the profession. Despite a decade of revisions in rules and regulations (variously established by the Securities and Exchange Commission‚ Accounting Principles Board‚ and Financial Accounting Standards Board)‚ public accounting firms were still perceived by many on Capitol Hill as biased in favor of their clients‚ incapable of or unwilling to police
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The underlying principle of utilitarian theory is it seeks to punish offenders to discourage or deter future unlawful activity. However‚ the retributive theory seeks to punish offenders because they deserve to be punished (Net Industries‚ 2014). The utilitarian theory recognizes that punishment has penalties for both the offender and society. It holds that the total good created by the punishment should go beyond the entirety of evil; meaning punishment should not be unlimited. For example‚ releasing
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The Virtue of Hope Hope is the Theological virtue by which we desire the kingdom of Heaven and eternal life as our happiness‚ placing our trust in Christ’s promises and relying not on our own strength‚ but on the help of the Holy Spirit. The theological virtue of hope is the basis on which the Christian’s moral life is based on. Through the power of the Holy Spirit‚ the virtue of hope guides Christian’s to have a righteous life with a great relationship with God. We first see this virtue unfold
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continence and temperance and their relation to moral virtue and how it is possessed. I will explain what Aristotle’s view on knowledge‚ and how it the key to human life. When Aristotle describes moral virtue he describes it as something that “comes as a result of habit”(Nicomanchean Ethics I‚ xiii 1103a17) to state that “non of the moral virtues are in us by nature”( Nicomanchean Ethics I‚ xiii 1103a18) by saying this Aristotle is implying that moral virtue is acquired by the repetition of doing good deeds
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Habit and Virtue Aristotle says that we are all endowed by nature with the ability to reach virtue‚ but he also says that we become virtuous by making virtuous acts. He explains how acting upon virtuous acts could possibly become “second nature”‚ which means it could become a habit. What he is trying to imply is that normally things become a habit if you work on it a lot‚ so by working on virtuous acts could make it a habit. This could happen if people are put into situations in which they demonstrate
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it took Enron 16 years to go from about $10 billion of assets to $65 billion of assets‚ and 24 days to go bankruptcy. Enron is also one of the most celebrated business ethics cases in the century. There are so many things that went wrong within the organization‚ from all personal (prescriptive and psychological approaches)‚ managerial (group norms‚ reward system‚ etc.)‚ and organizational (world-class culture) perspectives. This paper will focus on the business ethics issues at Enron that were
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