Duty

1. Singer’s initial principle is as follows, “if it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it” (866) According to Singer this is means that it one must prevent something bad or avoid cause any more damage events from happening but are not required to promote something good in return. (866) He goes on to explain that this principle only applies when we do not have to sacrifice anything…

pertaining to the student’s counselling session to other teaching staff or to other students is forbidden. It is also stressed the importance of informing the student that the counsellor has the duty to report any limits to the confidential nature of the information shared. In other words, a counsellor has a duty to inform the appropriate authorizes when or if a child’s welfare is at risk, it is also suggested that the child is to be aware of this obligation prior to counselling. To add, both…

Global Justice For All In the United States, 46.2 million people – 15 percent of the population – live in poverty. Meanwhile the richest among us are doing very well. As an affluent person in a world of needy poor, I should probably do more to aid badly off persons around the globe. Many people subscribe to this thought, which prompts guilt and embarrassment. However, the thought readily becomes an extremely demanding vise. What do we owe, as a matter of justice, to distant needy strangers?…

Ethic Theories on College tuition In the modern society, all of the future college students work harder on their full time jobs to pay the tuition to enroll college for their major that they wanted to learn for their future after their high school graduation. Some of them don’t have a job and wanted to go to out of state college, but can’t afford and unable to enroll college. Some undergraduate college student wanted to enroll college, but they also can’t afford it. All of the tuitions are…

refutation of that objection. The objection raised is that charity and duty are separated by a line in our society which conflicts with Peter Singer’s argument. In the essay “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” Peter Singer addresses the idea that people…

Rulli and Millum (2014) makes a point to include the sports car example demonstrating people’s way of thinking. The majority believe the agent has a moral duty to sacrifice his sports car to save the child. Even though, the agent endures a greater personal cost that is outweighed by his moral duty to the child. With this in mind, the agent may not believe the damage to the sports car is worth the risk to save the child, as a consequence, he may not feel morally obligated to do so. Thenceforth,…

Eggonia has to perform aid to Furasia because negative and positive duties of Van Wyk 's principles which we morally obligated. Our actions should not harm others and our actions should benefit others in any conditions. Wealth countries are benefiting from weak countries ' resources, and the rich country is morally obligated…

help others. All of these things are actions that we consider to be good, however do they have a good will despite the reasons we are doing them. According to Kant, doing something out of good will means that it is being done precisely for the sake of duty. To do something out of good will is equivalent to doing something because it is your obligation to do it. The will is not good once you do an action because you are prone to do it in order to receive a prize, gratification, or reward. A…

Problem Analysis - Administrative Team As an executive assistant (EA) for a very large, global technology company, one of the most significant issues the group faces is an inconsistency in job duty execution. EAs have standard job duties as well as job duties that are unique to the department in which they are assigned. As EAs, we all share the same job title, yet we are individual contributors rather than part of a team or function. Because EAs are ranked and rated against one another, those…

Kant, Wordsworth, and Descartes have different beliefs on what it means to be a human being. Kant believes that we must represent ourselves as members of the kingdom of nature while also being members of the kingdom of ends. Wordsworth believes that the conception of human nature is based upon the relationship between the power of one’s imagination and nature. While Descartes argues that having a mind connected to a body is what it means to be a human. After discussing the differences between…