Normative

A Look into Philosophy By Shannon Martin *Philosophy is difficult to define as there are so many levels involved in the art of philosophy. Philosophy is not the act of arguing against everything just for the sake of argument or disagreement. Philosophy is about seeking wisdom, enlightenment and viewing all areas of a subject. The word philosophy is broken down from its Greek origin as “the love or pursuit of wisdom”. “It is an activity that reflects passion, commitment, and…

Ethics and Business Ethics is a branch of philosophy and is considered a normative science as it is concerned with the norms of human conduct. It is the conception of right and wrong behavior, defining for us when our actions are moral or immoral. Business Ethics is the art and discipline of applying ethical principles to examine and solve complex moral dilemmas. A business is considered to be ethical only if it manages to reach a tradeoff between pursuing its economic objective and fulfilling…

The context of grocery shopping has different normative expectations both online and offline. A person can grocery shop in the real world (Whole Foods) or in the digital world (Peapod). Actors are people involved in exchanges and fall into three categories: senders, recipients, and subjects. Shopping at Whole foods, I am the subject because the information sent is about me. Whole Foods is the sender because they can share my personal information, and any party that receives my information is…

“Four elements of caring. The four elements or fundamentals necessary for effective caring require certain attitudes and skills. Good care combines certain activities, attitudes, and knowledge of the patient and the situation.” For example, my best friend “Ashley” has sickle cells and sometimes she goes to the doctor a lot. Sometimes when she’s going through a pain crisis she misses a lot of school days in a row. Sometimes a crisis can be handled at home, with rest, fluid, medicine, and other…

What did Schweitzer mean by this statement, one may assume and some may wonder about such a broad statement? The meaning of the statement is that regardless of whatever or whomever one may help; the inner man provokes that individual to adhere to the code of ethics in his or her profession. What’s the definition of ethics? Webster New World Dictionary defines ethic as “as the study of standards of conduct.” Never the less, the discussion is on the code of ethics. Clinton & Ohlschlager stated,…

Lauren, having been only with the company for a short time is faced with a dilemma in her career as a quality engineer. The firm she works for is "a highly respected technology company." (Case study 1). The main issue at hand is whether or not Lauren should pass the product, given that it has marginally failed the stress tests. She has gone to her superiors and they have suggested they pass the product regardless of the test results, and now Lauren must choose whether or not to follow direction…

While consequentialist logic forges a conceptual link between right action and consequences, deontological logic forges a conceptual link between right action and a moral rule. This paper will take the position that virtue ethics avoids the drawbacks of both consequentialism and deontology, and therefore provides us with the best response to the question of abortion. In order to do so, this paper will proceed three-fold. First, this paper will defend one consequentialist argument for abortion,…

Smoking before the game One of the ethical dilemma I faced, involved sports. I dated this girl for a while, and I go to the football games at her school, she was in band. But what I started noticing was the team never seemed to win, and I leaned that one reason was most would go out smoking weed before the game. Most of the main players in Dixies Greyhounds team hung around each other, and also smoked together which impacted the whole team. Also most of the band would meet up and hang out with…

In ethics, ethical theories involve the basic concept of wrong and right behavior. There are two types of groups of ethical theories. These theories are consequential and nonconsequential. Consequential principles judge ethics on a certain action by the outcome of that action meaning the overall consequence. Consequential Ethics, determine what is ‘morally right’ and ‘morally wrong’ of the action that is occurring and is than determined by the rate of good to bad that a given action would make.…

Today, I learnt 3 persuasive appeals. They are Ethos, Pathos and Logos. Ethos means an appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader. Pathos refers to an appeal to emotion and is a way of convincing an audience or a person of an argument by creating an emotional response. Logos refers to convincing a group of people or a person with logic and provide rational reasoning. Firstly, I would use Ethos to aid me in persuading more students…