Theory of reasoned action

consists almost exclusively critical arguments, akin to the critical and theoretical side of the arts. In relation to our RLS, political ethics also known as political morality or public ethics is the practice of making moral judgements about political action and political agents. Human Sciences takes into consideration various range of disciplines, though perhaps not as diverse as a group as those categorized as arts. This AOK studies and interprets experiences, activities, constructs and…

At any given moment, we potentially face a vast amount of choices that require decisions based on what course of action we would consider to be right or wrong in the circumstances and often, these choices may differ significantly from person to person. What drives the decision-making process on moral judgements, that is judgements made on actions or characters that draw on values integral to our identity (Haidt, 2001), is the focus of this essay. The relationship between individual yet stable…

He is not obligated to do or say precisely what he did or said the day before; his actions are not determined. In one scene, Phil is outside a bowling alley with two locals and he asked them, “What if there were no tomorrow?” One guy answers, “That would mean there will be no consequences, there will be no hangovers, we could do whatever…

Though he does refer to Wertenbaker’s work as “extensive new research,” he points out that Wertenbaker, like those before him, based his theory on the documents of the Public Record Office in London and recorded “an even stronger proponent of the ‘democratic reform’ theory than his post-Revolutionary predecessors” (p. 15). Washburn implies that Wertenbaker’s “belief in Bacon’s Rebellion as a democratic reform movement” was a product of his own personal…

Psychoanalytic approach. Developed by Sigmund Freud, the psychoanalytic theory of personality focuses on the unconscious. This school of thought believes that all behaviour stems from one’s unconscious as well instinctual and biological drives. He described the personality as encompassing three structures- id, ego, and superego. These three…

make reasoned judgments, however, some individuals tend to have cognitive defects and this causes them to misinterpret information that leads to poor decision making. Individuals who suffer with cognitive defects tend to lack any ability to empathize with other and are usually motivated by self-interest and self-gratification. These self interests tend to take precedence over societies social needs like obeying the law, because they do not see that what they are doing is wrong. The actions they…

People often argue the inseparability of morality from politics because in theory, the all-encompassing political sphere consists of the ‘deliberative inclusive search’ for a shared notion of a ‘good’ life. This collaborative effort to create a co-existing, co-operative environment involves the government and the governed. For the purposes of this paper, I will reduce the latter to the ‘individual’. Occasionally, there are competing interests between the individual and the authority. Within this…

influence ethical consumption intention (Kalafatis et al., 1999) while some may proposed a model to investigate on customer ethical awareness, motivation, and their actual behaviour (Valor, 2007). One of the most prominent model using in this area is Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) by Ajzen (1991) as it seems to be a core conceptual framework for many studies (De Pelsmacker & Janssens, 2007).…

Ethical decisions require increased thought and awareness of the potential consequences of ones actions. It can be tough to make an ethical decision and even harder to analyze a scenario and decide who was right and who was wrong. After reading Chapter 2 of Ethics for the Information Age, I began to familiarize myself with ways to go about a problem and how to reason through it. Everybody has different thoughts pertaining to what’s “right” and what’s “wrong”, but as I read through the chapter, I…

should have. He proposes that an action must be performed from duty instead of with accordance to duty in order to have moral worth. Kant tries to prove that “the moral worth depends…not on the realization of the object of the action, but merely on the principle of volition according to which, without regard to any of the faculty of desire, the action has been done” (Kant 12-13). To act from duty entails performing the right action because it is the right action (and resisting to act because…