Types of Moral imperative

What matters is that you are getting the most out of your action. Even though what might happen after your action could be extreme, as long as it is benefiting the majority. Utilitarianism rejects moral codes or systems that are based on traditions, customs or beliefs. Instead, they believe in moral actions that can be justified based on how they contribute to human beings in a positive way. We look at overall pleasure, happiness, and satisfaction. There is a rule and act variation to this…

action could serve as either a mean to more pleasure, or a mean to greater pain. Either way, the action serves as a mean to the greater or lesser outcome. Therefore, whatever actions serves as a mean to the greatest happiness must be declared as the moral action. Mill’s theory not only examines ones individual happiness but also forces one to examine the “association between his own happiness and the good of the whole” (Mills, 17). For example, a bystander by a train discovers that the train…

but the United States still allows for this to happen in certain states. The death penalty is used for most terrible crimes such as murder, treason, or espionage but mainly for murder. Many people argue about whether Capital punishment is ethical, moral and even legal. I will cover the history, supporters and opponents, The Divine Command Theory and Kant’s theory for capital punishment. Executions were practiced as early eighteenth…

There is a place for emotion within moral reasoning, in fact emotions are essential in the process of gaining moral understanding. Morality consists of principles that tell individuals how they ought to treat one another regarding what is considered right and wrong. To truly understand one another, we must understand each other’s emotions. Feelings are most commonly associated with women since men make most rational decisions and ideas, and as a result, these decisions are flawed to an extent.…

Dan recognized was difficult for employees to live on in Seattle and so started his campaign for income equality by raising these first(O’Brien, 2015). The underlying ethical dilemma raised in the article by O’Brien (2015) is “do companies have a moral duty to pay employees a higher wage than the minimum set by law in the country the business operates in, when they can afford to do so?” In applied ethics, specific issues such as this are analyzed to attempt to answer the question of whether…

person as if they were a disposable object (Restrepo, “What Is the Principle of Humanity”). In addition, Immanuel Kant believes a moral action is dependent on intentions and good will. Good will is our ability for steady commitment to doing our duty for its own sake and ability to know our duty (Restrepo, “What Is the Principle of Humanity”). To deem an action to be moral is to…

Final Paper Project My Baseline Ethics I define my own ethics, as the rules I impose on myself in how I should act based on what I think is right and moral principles. It helps me to think and reflect on any dilemma that I may face in my life before making a decision. Personally, I find that what could be right or wrong for me may be contrary for other persons because we all came from different cultures and countries, with different perspective of what is ethical or not. In general, I believe…

Immanuel Kant was a man of knowledge and self-awareness. He was well known for the development of ethical formulas in his book Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. One important formula that will be introduced is the Humanity formula. When using this formula, Kant explain why or why not drugs are bad for you and whether they go against the moral standards. In his book, Kant doesn’t necessarily state that drinking is terrible for you and is morally wrong. However, he does explain what the…

still rings true here in America. Despite centuries of moral and social progress millions of people still live under the yoke of prejudice and racist acts that continuously have us living in a state of perpetual chaos. Racism is philosophically incompatible with a majority of the theories covered in moral philosophy. What makes racism a moral issue? Moral issues are those actions which have the potential to help or harm others or ourselves. Moral issues can also involve a difference of belief…

complexity is quite intriguing. I believe that Aristotle’s Doctrine of the Mean doesn’t truly help us make particular moral decisions because of how vague it is. Yet, it guides us in our approach to the moral decisions at hand. The Doctrine of the mean is often referred to as the “Golden Mean.” The mean is a virtue between two vices. Aristotle refers to two types of virtues. There are moral and intellectual virtues which make our actions good, or our thinking good. Aristotle often uses the…