Moral hazard

pick the morals and values that would best describe my personal moral theory I would choose Utilitarianism, Deontology and Cultural Relativism. To be honest, when it comes to a topic such as this it can be hard to put everything in words. I don’t always inspect certain parts of life to see where I could apply critical thinking, but I do have ways of deciding what I believe is ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ in different situations. In the textbook Think by Judith Boss she defines utilitarianism as “a moral…

What best describes me in the moral philosophy when making conclusions that best represents my personal and workplace when making decisions is Utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is defined as an individual decides on decisions based on everyone. “Utilitarianism is a form of consequentialism because it rests in the mind that it is the consequences or results of actions, laws, policies, and so on that define whether they are good or bad, correct or wrong” (Fieger, 2014). Agreeing to our text…

For the most part, I believe Americans would like to make decisions based on moral absolutism as that seems to be right decision to make, but in all reality, guidance is based on moral relativism due to so many variables that take place today. Ruth Benedict discusses in A Defense of Ethical Relativism what various cultures viewed as a moral absolutism in a particular part of the world but may be seen as moral relativism in another part. Benedict discussed homosexuality as being accepted in the…

When a threat becomes apparent in society, the members of a community may result to moral panic. In Christie Barron and Dany Lacombe’s “Moral Panic and the Nasty Girl.” They examine the topic of female violence in the 1990s and societies reaction to the murder case of Reena Virk and the notorious couple Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka crimes that were committed. Barron and Lacombe explain the Nasty Girl is a social construct that has been formed in the perception of fear and risk in the…

Benjamin Rush introduced the concept of Moral Management in America and also founded American psychiatry (McAnulty, 2013). Moral Management was the method of treatment that focused on social, individual, and occupational needs. Even though these methods were found to have a high degree of effectiveness, they were almost entirely abandoned…

interest is in the end justifying the means and how the ambition for power can be achieved and maintained, thus leaving little room for questions of morality. The distinctive quality of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is the play’s focus on the complex moral question of what would drive a good man to commit an evil act, believing he was doing it not for his own ambition but to curb the ambition of another. The reading of these two texts in relation to each other thus emphasises their distinctions…

What constitutes a moral action? How do we as people decide what the most morally correct options are? Depending on perspective and cultural differences basic moral values are subject to change, but that isn’t the only thing affecting how we evaluate morality. As can be illustrated by the theories of ethicists Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill, sometimes our ideas of what makes something moral are more important than the action itself. Kant was a German philosopher who was born during the 1700s…

PHI2600 Ethics Research Project Paper Abbie Guile Moral Relativism, Emrys Westacott Morals have many components that play into what is considered right or wrong, and this is where moral relativism comes in. Moral relativism is the standpoint of where the morals are coming from. This gives us more of an explanation to where individual’s morals originate from and help us understand them. An example of this could be someone’s culture, because his or her standpoint is different from someone that…

Dilemmas We live in a society where we face ethical dilemmas throughout our entire lives. Sometimes the dilemma might be minor, and other times the issue is life changing. How we choose to get through these life changing moments has a lot to do with our morals and worldview. The life of an unborn fetus is at the mercy of its mother, and an ethical dilemma of abortion will be examined from the perspective of the Christian worldview. Ethical Dilemma This case involves a woman named Susan who had…

life has had to make a decision of whether to choose one alternative over the other, while neither of them would provide amiable results. This is basically the definition of what an ethical dilemma means; ‘‘a process by which individuals use their moral base to determine whether a certain issue is right or wrong’’ (Carlson et al. 2009, p. 536; see also Tenbrunsel and Smith-Crowe 2008). The way people react when being put in a similar situation, gives us a lot of feedback about them. Their…