Intrinsic factor

Over the first 4 weeks of this class we have had many class discussions and readings, which have brought up a great deal of thinking. The class name Organization Ethics and Decision-making, speaks for itself when it comes to the things that can be talked about in this class. Our world is changing each and everyday and you have to stay on top of the way things are. In this reflection essay I will hit on different topics and speak in different ways that ethical decisions and value systems work…

describing the elements such a machine that could “stimulate your brain so that you would think and feel you were writing a great novel, or making a friend, or reading an interesting book” (292). Nozick also believes that if pleasure were the only intrinsic value, people would have an overriding reason to be hooked up to an "experience machine," which would produce favourable sensations. However, we can imagine this is not the case. There are multiple concerns that people can have when proposed…

In Michael Pollan’s “An Animal’s Place” Pollan provides an argument on whether or not Americans should consume animals, and specifically, if the fashion in which animals are farmed and slaughtered respects their capacity to suffer. Pollan illustrates his personal dilemma particularly when he ironically points his debate on whether or not to eat meat began while he was dining at a steakhouse. To develop his argument, Pollan initially exclusively uses the citation of animal rights activists, but…

always follow that moral code. For RC, the rightness and wrongness of an action is determined by whether or not it is required or prohibited by an ideal code and that in comparison to other actions it produces at least an equal or greater amount of intrinsic…

As most counselling professionals work in teams, this is easier for them to know what to do and also easier in helping them in their work. Morality is often defined as how an individual thinks about what is right and what is wrong and also think weather if what they are about to do is considered good or bad behaviour. Morality is also often drawn from temptation of the individual and also greed for example if an individual were to find a bag of money on the floor, would that individual take it…

My Environmental Ethics Growing up in a highly capitalized area, Macau, and being taught the idea that wealth is the ruler of power and status, I learned that I would have to find a job with decent extra benefit and high salary in the future. Until the time I have taken geography and moral education classes in my high school, I started to consider a bigger picture when I was thinking about public policy and my decision making. I knew that what I did could affect anyone around me and possibly…

Goals are important when someone wants to be successful in life. Whether it be getting good grades so as to accomplish the goal of getting a scholarship, or even just finishing a book by the end of a week, goals help set us up for success. Freshman year of college is said to come with its fair share of challenges. With the help of goal setting, I hope to make some of the challenges less daunting. My goals for my freshman year are getting into the habit of studying more during first semester,…

According to Czeslaw, “In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of sounds like a pistol shot”. Many time in our life we get ourselves basically venting our emotions about something. We worry about something going wrong. According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (2011) a whistle-blower is, one who uncovers wrongdoing inside of an association to the public or to those in positions of power. Whistle-blowers are not…

The Daodejing we read is the first book of two. This book focuses on the Way while the second book focuses on Virtue. In this first book there are thirty-seven chapters. Each chapter is its own lesson and contains a meaning separate and independent from the other chapters. The first book has some themes that each of these chapters fall under: the Dao, nothingness, non-desiring, nature as a model, wuwei-nonaction, and knowledge and value. The Daodejing has three parts to this word; Dao means Way,…

The dilemma proposed is named The Trolley Dilemma. This dilemma consists of many scenarios, either as an onlooker or as the conductor of the trolley. The trolley is headed down a track with five workers, the brakes have a malfunction and do not work. There is a second track that the train can switch to, but there is one person on that track. The onlooker has to decide if they are going to pull the lever, while the conductor has to decide to turn or go straight. Another case to consider is a fat…