Rational

understanding our primary functions as “rational animals” is followed by applying it in life, it leads to achieving fulfillment and intrinsic happiness (Aristotle, 349 BC). However, Aristotle’s disillusionment on the understanding our human function does not prove to be stable basis in the realistic application of his philosophical views. Tackling this topic will be done by drawing a similarity between Aristotle’s ideologies about the contemplation of rational beings, with Hannah Arendt’s…

Midterm Exam When looking at the various principles of choice related theories, the textbook written by Larry Siegel and Brandon Welsh, the Rational Choice Theory is defined as a utilitarian belief that man is a reasoning actor who weighs means and ends, costs and benefits, and makes a rational choice. Theories under this concept are, personal problems, financial needs or rewards, parental controls and supervision, revenge, deterrence, and vengeance, and lastly creating scripts. When trying to…

making, discrimination, and emotional disorders. As a result, this may defend the cause of crimes. Many theories have been developed over the years. An example of a theory as to how crime is caused is the rational choice theory. This theory inter twine with the classical theory. In the rational choice theory, people generally act in their self-interest and make decisions to commit crime after weighing the potential risks of getting caught and punished. The classical theory picks up by suggesting…

Personality types I am considered to be a rational field marshal; with my organizing, and need to take charge. This I can completely see and recognize. I am one to do things the way they work, even though that may not always be the right way. I plan like a madman, I will plan exactly what I am going to do once I get home, task after task. I am the type to take charge, I prefer to lead groups rather than take orders. I can’t stand when I’m not in control I feel like things don’t get done. If I…

there are two types of responses to whistleblowing. You are either a loyal person to your business or country or wherever you are currently employed or you are a disloyal person. But this is far from the truth. In the article, Whistle Blowing and Rational Loyalty, written by authors: Wim Vandekerckhove and M. S. Ronald Commers, the notion of loyalty to one entity is broken down into multiple categories. The argument in the article is that there is no real loyalty to a company because a company…

goals and avoid taking high-risk choices (Brand, Pawlikowski, Schiebener & Wegmann 2012). Hence, anchoring effect can interfere decisions in the process by attaching the subject to the initial idea presented. A problem can be solved through adopting rational decision-making process that guides decision makers to analyze and review generated choices. Thus, the second attempt has an increase in its performance in group challenges from implementing the process in the pre-simulation discussion. The…

wants to benefit from the crime he/she is about to commit. In rational choice theory it states just that. It states that the offenders are rational people who think about their crime before committing them, they think of the benefits it will bring such as money along with the costs, such as the possibility of getting arrested (Robb, 2017). Through this theory one can apply it to the crime of drug smuggling, for it involves a rational offender who knows what he/she is doing and still decides to…

at the ballot box which we gain from our environment around us such as our parents’ political views. In this essay, I, will show why the Michigan model of voting offers an inadequate explanation for the way people vote and why I believe that the rational choice theory of voting specifically the altruistic theory of voting with a focus on a partisan form of altruistic voting offers a better explanation for why people vote the way that they do. I will achieve this goal by at first putting forth my…

Situational crime prevention had become a preferred crime-control policy (Clarke & Cornish, 1983). Clarke and Cornish (1987) utilized rational choice theory as a proper tool to view criminal behavior as 'the outcome of decisions and choices made by the offender'. Rational choice theory was given a more enhance perspective on criminal’s psychological thinking based on rational decision at this stage. If the benefits of crime is higher than the cost, the crime will happen. Vise versa, it will not.…

creature as a being which has a past and will have a future. Let us grant for a moment that humans are rational and animals aren't; that humans have a sense of themselves as contin ually exis ting bein gs and anima ls don't. Wh y shou ld that make any difference? Or more precisely, why should it make as much a difference as it does? Does th e fact that w e are ra tional legitimate our using non-rational animals just anyway we please? It seem s not. It certain ly doesn 't legitimate abusive…