Essays on Virtue ethics

This paper is a report on business ethics. It evaluates the action of the stakeholders based on the normative theories, which are utilitarian, Kantian, and virtue ethics and how each approach evaluates the activities ethically. It also looks at the stakeholders in this case and how they can be classified according to power, legitimacy, and…

            It seems the choice between human life and personal gain is an easy one to make; but if people are honest, the decision is often not so easy and how an individual reconciles personal, organizational and cultural values as well as ethics in a global setting is something that takes a great deal of…

Some people believe that once a person commits a crime or breaks the law, they no longer get to exercise their human rights. In fact, they believe that prisoners do not deserve human rights. The treatment of these inmates come into question; especially when most facilities and prisons are overcrowded, receiving more mentally ill prisoners,…

This case presents an ethical dilemma, a situation which arises when one must choose between mutually exclusive alternatives (Beauchamp& Walters, 2003). Decisions may have results that are desirable in some respects and undesirable in others. In Juana’s case, her decision to refuse the blood transfusion had the desired outcome of allowing her to remain true…

Business is based on self- interest view on ethics in that it is an interest in all matter that relate to me, y friends, my family and the society in which I live. Utilitarianism. 2. Is someone who makes ethical decision based on enlightened self-interest worthy of more or less praise than someone who makes…

Utilitarianism. virtuousness theory. and deontological moralss are major attacks to normative moralss. They portion differences and similarities and besides with moralss and morality. Valuess. virtuousnesss. and moral constructs besides portion a relationship with each other. The Utilitarianism moralss theory suggest that an action is morally right when it maximizes the entire public-service corporation to bring…

Gambling has been around forever, and I am sure it has always been a controversial issue. History and ethnography show us that, across societies of the past and present, gambling varies considerably with respect to its organization, social meanings, and how it is regarded in moral terms. (Binde,2005). Since the time when the guards for…

There are times when humans are faced with a situation in which the morality of the decision they make is difficult to judge. What is right morally for one individual may be thought of as unethical for another. In this particular scenario, an intellectual man who goes by the name Bill Jackson comes from a…