David Schmidtz Moral Theory

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The business colloquium today was a presentation made by David Schmidtz of Koch Foundation about that we are capable to understanding to making differences that matter. Mr. Schmidtz started his presentation by talking about ethics in how it affects our lives of doing things as he went on to talk about the philosophy fields. He talked about the moral theory, utilitarianism theory, deontology theory, and virtue theory that all relate back to ethics. David Schmidtz first talked about moral theory as he describes it helps us figure things from right from wrong and other way around from wrong to right. Then he talked about utilitarianism theory as he describes it thinks of the well-being as one of being united to best moral action. David Schmidtz

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