Maxim

A good death in Latin or, more commonly, euthanasia, holds that in extreme cases intentionally causing death can be positive if it reduces pain and causes a benefit to those who suffer. Euthanasia has many forms to include involuntary, voluntary, assisted, active and passive. The ethical view of euthanasia is widely debated and before one is able to look at the ethical stance of euthanasia one must first discuss its forms. To begin, involuntary euthanasia refers to a patient who is incapable…

determine whether a decision is morally good or bad. Your actions are not morally right according to the two rules that I call the categorical imperatives and I would like to explain why. The first categorical imperative is act only according to the maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. Your actions have two beliefs that cannot become universal rules which are lying and cheating. I will look at lying as a universal rule first. If every single…

bring out a will that is good within itself as opposed to good for any specific purpose, such as the fulfillment of happiness. The motivating principle or the maxim in this situation would be saving the lives of these prisoners. Typically, it means that the moral worth of your action lies in your motive for choosing and acting on that maxim, which could possibly be the prisoners’ lives. “Kant contends to be morally motivated is to be motivated simple by Practical Reason” (Yount,…

Morality as used in the context is defined as the principles revolving around the differentiation between wrong and right behavior of the human. As the last thinker of the enlightenment, Kant was a philosopher that believed that reason was the only thing that morality can come from. In contrast Mill was a philosopher who believed that morality is utility, meaning that something is moral only if it brings happiness or pleasure. In looking at both Kant’s text Grounding for the Metaphysics of…

BSB111 Business Law and Ethics ETHICS CASE STUDY INDIVIDUAL REPORT Student: Jack Taylor Student Number: N9823905 Tutor: Clark Taylor Word count: 1203 Date: 24/08/16 Utilitarianism Analysing with a utilitarian view involves identifying the stakeholders involved, predicting the effect on the stakeholder’s happiness as a consequence of the action and determining if the action increases net happiness (West 2016). Installing the defeat device in diesel engines affects a variety of…

Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher who was born on April 22, 1724. He is a central figure in modern philosophy. One of his biggest works is “Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals” that was written in 1785. Kant argued that right actions are only right if those actions are not instigated by impulses or desires, but by practical reason. He believes that actions are only right if it fulfills one’s duty. He believed that the morality of an action must be assessed in terms of the motivation…

Rebecca,’ he said. ‘It’s the body of some unknown woman, unclaimed, belonging nowhere. There was never an accident. Rebecca was not drowned at all. I killed her. I shot Rebecca in the cottage cove’”(Maurier 270). This was a big plot twist we find out Maxim really killed her. He couldn't stand her anymore, so going against the topic of nonviolence he murdered her instead of finding a peaceful solution, like her should have…

The Habit Loop In his book The Power of Habit (2012), Duhiggs explains “this process within our brain is a three-step loop” (p. 19). That is, the three essential components that make up this ‘habit loop’ are as follows: a cue, a routine, and a reward. Beginning with the first step, a cue is a trigger that overrides the brain to enter an automatic and involuntary mode, before determining which habit to carry out. In this case, an alarm clock going off would be the cue. Clearly, the blaring alarm…

“Nothing can be conceived in the world, or even out of it which can be called good without qualification, except a good will”.(261) In the Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, Immanuel Kant defines the good will (duty/ universal law)as a rational basis for morality that would be correct for all people at all times and in all circumstances.(260) Kant saw that the good will contrasted with good fortune or what many people believed to be happiness/good character (ex Aristotle’s virtues). He…

the morals taught guided me and allowed me to find a vision in aviation by seeking to challenge myself. One of the deontological morals of Immanuel Kant, is that our actions determined the will within human as he mentions. “Act only according to the maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law without contradiction.” (Immanuel Kant) These deontological perspective says that good comes from law consists and that our lives are based on our outcomes and duties…