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5 August 2013
Exam Essay The author of this report is to answer to the Kaiser case study presented for this exam essay. This answer will be divided into five major sections, those being utilitarianism, rights, justice, caring and virtue. A conclusion with the author’s judgment of the facts and developments within the Kaiser case study will be included as well. For the five major sections, the elements and application of each major subheading will be explained and synthesized in great detail. While Kaiser’s shift in hiring and training practices was a good step forward overall, it was not without some tradeoffs and pitfalls.
Utilitarianism Utilitarianism, per the Velazquez …show more content…
However, the accepted definition, even if that definition is applied differently by different people, is that it focuses on morals, who should prevail in a debate or struggle and who has the facts and history on their side. Words commonly associated with these concepts would include fairness and equity. Even so, how people define those terms can be skewed greatly by defining “fairness”, by religion and by the laws on the books and the legitimacy of those laws and the people behind then, not unlike the aforementioned Dred Scott laws just to give one example. Two names in the justice sphere that must be mentioned are Kant and Rawls. Kant was famous for his three formulations. The first of those was that maxims should hold as universal laws of nature. The second was that people must serve in every maxim. The third and final formulation was the formula of autonomy. It stated was an amalgamation of the first two formulations and stated that maxims should cause harmony with nature and ends. Rawls was notorious for his term “veil of ignorance”. This proverbial veil has to do with comparing one’s perspective when someone’s personal knowledge is temporarily disregarded so as to consider the justice of a situation without any preconceived notions …show more content…
The day of not needing to use race or gender at all for hires is approaching. However, that day is nowhere near here. Inner city schools and high-minority areas need to have the resources and options that the wealthier and “whiter” schools have. Second, there needs to be a shift (even if it is slow) from racial characteristics being used as a means to right prior wrongs to a point where race is irrelevant. The latter is nowhere close to being present right now but the people on both sides that are agitating the dynamic when it’s not true, at least not to that extent, need to be shouted down and removed from the conversation as they are obviously a dying breed. Third, using employers to enforce social justice made sense back in the 1950’s, 1960’s and even the 1970’s because the country was still very close chronologically to the Jim Crow days and the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968. However, it should be used sparingly if at all in the modern day. Employers should be able to hire whomever they want as long as they are not being racist, sexist or otherwise bigoted. Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream. It shall be realized sooner or later
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5 August 2013
Exam Essay The author of this report is to answer to the Kaiser case study presented for this exam essay. This answer will be divided into five major sections, those being utilitarianism, rights, justice, caring and virtue. A conclusion with the author’s judgment of the facts and developments within the Kaiser case study will be included as well. For the five major sections, the elements and application of each major subheading will be explained and synthesized in great detail. While Kaiser’s shift in hiring and training practices was a good step forward overall, it was not without some tradeoffs and pitfalls.
Utilitarianism Utilitarianism, per the Velazquez …show more content…
However, the accepted definition, even if that definition is applied differently by different people, is that it focuses on morals, who should prevail in a debate or struggle and who has the facts and history on their side. Words commonly associated with these concepts would include fairness and equity. Even so, how people define those terms can be skewed greatly by defining “fairness”, by religion and by the laws on the books and the legitimacy of those laws and the people behind then, not unlike the aforementioned Dred Scott laws just to give one example. Two names in the justice sphere that must be mentioned are Kant and Rawls. Kant was famous for his three formulations. The first of those was that maxims should hold as universal laws of nature. The second was that people must serve in every maxim. The third and final formulation was the formula of autonomy. It stated was an amalgamation of the first two formulations and stated that maxims should cause harmony with nature and ends. Rawls was notorious for his term “veil of ignorance”. This proverbial veil has to do with comparing one’s perspective when someone’s personal knowledge is temporarily disregarded so as to consider the justice of a situation without any preconceived notions …show more content…
The day of not needing to use race or gender at all for hires is approaching. However, that day is nowhere near here. Inner city schools and high-minority areas need to have the resources and options that the wealthier and “whiter” schools have. Second, there needs to be a shift (even if it is slow) from racial characteristics being used as a means to right prior wrongs to a point where race is irrelevant. The latter is nowhere close to being present right now but the people on both sides that are agitating the dynamic when it’s not true, at least not to that extent, need to be shouted down and removed from the conversation as they are obviously a dying breed. Third, using employers to enforce social justice made sense back in the 1950’s, 1960’s and even the 1970’s because the country was still very close chronologically to the Jim Crow days and the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968. However, it should be used sparingly if at all in the modern day. Employers should be able to hire whomever they want as long as they are not being racist, sexist or otherwise bigoted. Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream. It shall be realized sooner or later