Moral responsibility

In the short story The Bargain by Guthrie, Jr. moral responsibility is the topic of discussion on who is responsible for Slade's death. Morally responsible means to be deserving of blame for an act that was committed. Many believe that Slade is solely responsible for his own death, however, Mr. Baumer is morally responsible for the death of Slade because Mr. Baumer knew exactly what he was doing and he knew that Slade would drink out of the barrel if he thought it was liquor. Some may say that…

dismissing their moral responsibilities in order to gain ultimate control of their surroundings. In Frankenstein, the overall theme is developed in a number of ways that all focus around the selfish Victor Frankenstein who obsesses over maintaining control of all of those around him. Frankenstein “fails to exercise such moral responsibility for the single life he creates because he regards creativity as an abstraction.” (Harriet) Frankenstein has no concern over his moral responsibilities due to…

Susan Wolf would argue an individual is morally responsible for actions caused by implicit bias. Furthermore, I will address the difference between the conclusions drawn by Wolf with Robin Zheng’s. In Susan Wolf’s “Sanity and the Metaphysics of Responsibility”, Wolf proposed the sane deep-self view. She redefined the criteria for sanity by quoting M’Naughten Rule that “a person is sane if (1) he knows what he is doing and (2) he knows that what he is doing is either right or wrong.” (p.55)…

Stawson’s thesis in this article was that people cannot be ultimately morally responsible for their actions because they cannot be the cause of their actions. There are three views when it comes to moral responsibility. Stawson believes in a deterministic view. This is that every action is determined by a set of previous actions. Stawson in this article first starts by laying out his main arguments for this: nothing can be causa sui, the cause of itself, in order to be responsible for your…

Hershey Shrugs Moral Responsibility in Supply Chain Management by Failing to Eradicate the Use of Child Labor Due to the failure of Hershey’s voluntary efforts to stop child labor from being used within its supply chain, the U.S. government should enforce existing federal law against the importation of products made with forced labor. Trafficked Labor and Poor Working Conditions Hershey sources most of its cocoa from West Africa – a region plagued by extreme poverty – and known for extensive…

Sammy made the unjust choice of staring and ogling at the three girls. In addition to that, Sammy also creepily paid attention to even the most minute of details pertaining to the girls. He was also unjust for quitting the job that his parents helped him to get. The story hinted that Sammy did not have much of a future but rather his parents cared about his future more than him. Sammy was morally wrong for continuously staring and strangely interpreting the leader of the group’s upbringings,…

businesses alike, requiring a new analysis of moral and ethical frameworks to help the many moral agents navigate the shifting social landscape. The notion of moral responsibility and business has been expanding congruently with this change. The central question now emerges, do businesses have a moral responsibility? Moral responsibility concerns action and consequences. It refers to the duty that businesses have to act in accordance with the moral principles that are important to social…

contribution, this graduate acted unethically because he wanted to obey his authority. Ultimately, the consultant justified his actions because an authority figure told him what to do. According to Albert Bandura’s moral disengagement mechanisms, the consultant was acting under the displacing responsibility because he can blame his…

In the ”Impossibility of Moral Responsibility”, Galen Strawson argues that we cannot be held morally responsible for our actions, as well as stating that free will does not exist. Strawson says that if one is not responsible for anything about themselves, how could they possibly be responsible for something that they did? He also says that when we engage in S-procedures, intentional shaping procedures, we only do it because of certain features of the way that we already are. In the very…

In the last paragraph, the officer wants to make himself not being despite by local and that’s the main reason cause him to shoot that elephant to cheer those local up. He successfully reaches it, but the owner is the one paying the price for his target, the officer was excluding by local, and that’s why he trying to persuade himself that he has done a right thing in legal way and old man’s opinion even though he knows it’s not morally correct to kill that elephant. That’s why he feels glad…