LGST001 Ethics and Social Responsibility Sears Auto Center Scandal Managing Business Ethics Text (pp.207 - 210) Ethical Decision-making Issue: Should Sears remove its commission-based compensation scheme? Group Stand: The majority of the group believes that Ellen should be removed from the team. Support for Motion: Rawl’s theory/Egalitarianism The underlying inequality is that car owners are paying for repair services they do not require while Sears benefits by earning higher
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different aspects of utilitarianism in relation the situation. The trolley problem is as follows ‘A train is hurtling down a track and you see that it is going to hit a group of 5 people and will certainly kill them all. However you are standing on a bridge over the line next to a fat man and you are sure that if you pushed him onto the line his bulk would be sufficient to stop the train before it hit the group of people‚ would you push him?’. This theory of utilitarianism is in relation of the
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identifying the positive and negative senses of freedom and argues that the kinds of freedom that are most important in a technological society are those that enable individuals to participate in decisions affecting their own lives. UTILITARIANISM AND ITS CRITICS Utilitarianism has been not only an important school of thought among philosophers‚ but also a major influence
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Issues Final Exam Essay Questions ESSAY QUESTIONS 1. Essay Question: Rule Vs. Act Utilitarianism (Utilitarianism) Suppose that you were wondering whether you‚ as a doctor‚ should hug a patient who is in tears. Give an ethical analysis of pros and cons from an act utilitarian point of view. Then give an analysis from a rule utilitarian point of view. 2. Essay Question: (Case Scenario -- Utilitarianism) Suppose that Rosa moves away her children out of town because‚ based on the information
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SO‚ where does this leave Patty Dunns ethical reasoning? Her utilitarianism reasoning does not show happiness for the greater number. Her deontological reasoning held a lot to be desired by failing to ensure laws and regulations were standard. Ultimately‚ it appears that Patricia Dunn did not have a strategy or plan of attack. BODY In Patty Dunn’s case it seems she failed to implement either deontological or utilitarianism reasoning. Had she followed a more
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Thucydides Versus Plato: Differing Views of the Good Life What is the true nature of the Good Life? Is it living life with concern for only oneself despite the possible consequences of one’s action on others? Or might it involve self-sacrifice in effort to do what one feels is right or just? Is it descriptive‚ or perhaps prescriptive? Two prominent Greeks‚ Thucydides and Plato‚ began providing answers to these questions over 25 centuries ago as they analyzed and wrote critically about life’s
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approaches to ethical decision making have dominated ethics for a long period of time. Utilitarianism‚ developed by Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill‚ defines the moral goodness of actions by their consequences. This theory distinguishes good from bad‚ with particular emphasis on the happiness generated by the consequences. Those acts are right that produce greatest happiness for the greatest number. Utilitarianism‚ at times‚ requires that some good be sacrificed. For example‚ a baby born with impairment
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if everyone does what is needed‚ the effect will not be as great as if less was done. Singer’s examinations most closely act in accordance with those of utilitarianism‚ which is a moral theory according to that of welfare being the fundamental human good. This Welfare can be referred to the happiness or well-being of individuals (Utilitarianism‚
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Kantian and Utilitarian Theories Kantian and Utilitarian Theories Applying philosophical concepts to social issues can test the relevance of philosophy in contemporary society. Such application may also help to resolve present-day social issues‚ as philosophy can draw light on moral concerns. In this paper‚ the Kantian and Utilitarian moral theories are applied to the Nestle advertising controversy which began in 1970‚ and which lingers
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what is right and what is wrong. Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill have differing viewpoints of this topic. John Stuart Mill has a philosophy known as Utilitarianism. In this way of thinking‚ ethics are based on the maximization of pleasure. In other words‚ it’s based on the consequences of a given action. The basic principle of Utilitarianism is that "actions are right in so far as they tend to promote happiness‚ wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness" happiness equals the absence
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