Case 2: Ethics To adjust or Not to Adjust: The case of BNB Credit Union ACCT 315-01 September 5 2013 Personal Ethical Code What do you consider to be right and wrong? I am a Buddhist. What I believe to be right is to follow five precepts of Buddha: abstaining from harming living beings, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying, and intoxication. In addition, I will follow rules and regulations made by specified society or countries or organizations. On the other hand, not following the conducts
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• Ethical Relativism • Moral Differences • Not everyone shares our idea of what constitutes decent/moral behavior. • What we believe to be immoral behavior in fact can be grounded in an ethical code. – 9/11 for example. Al-Qaeda’s code of ethics identify their action as morally justified and mandated • Terms • Moral nihilism – View that there are no morally right or wrong viewpoints, that the whole moral issue is a cultural game. – Neither your nor my opinion matter because there is
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motivating the decisions or the actions of the consequences. All of this depends on the respect, fairness, and the rights. This approach is up to the related issues of duty, moral standards, the principles and rights. The next is approach is the Virtue ethics and it focuses on the integrity of the individuals and the morals of the community. To identify the issues of the ethical actions but instead of agent centered. This professional community helps to identify the ethical issues and the guidelines; there
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purpose of ethics and a review of the underlying values guiding ethical standards of the counseling profession and the counseling literature dedicated to applied ethics. The objective of the article is to promote a context-specific focus on applied ethics, addressing the needs of community counselors working within public human service systems. The article is divided into sections focusing on the Purpose of Ethics, Applied Ethics in the Counseling Profession, and Contextual Understanding of Ethics in the
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This essay is about the similarities and differences between virtue theory, utilitarianism and deontological ethics. Each one of the theories can help to dissect how we view human behaviors. The choices that people make will be good or bad and understanding the ethical theory used will help to understand what that individual’s motivation was, the final result of the choice made, and whether or not if the decision was right or wrong. Each theory has its own path as to how an individual determines
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Ethics and Leadership in Criminal Justice 1 Final Exam 1. Universal responsibility. I’d like to start out by defining the two.1. Universal-means of or pertaining to the universe, all nature, or all existing things. 2.Responsibility-to make one's actions and task their own, the willing acceptance of the consequences of my actions. Individuals, Institutions, Governments and International organizations make judgment about what is just
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some preconceived or preexist- ing moral principle. Investigation of how such a principle came about, whether it is right or wrong and such discussion on the principle constitutes the branch of ethics or moral philosophy. Ethics is further subdivided into three areas. These are meta-ethics, normative ethics and applied
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Introduction This paper explores three philosophical issues. The concepts examined are personal identity, virtue ethics, and ethical relativism. A personal philosophy in relation to each concept is identified and described. In conclusion, philosophical findings are incorporated into a personal view on the ultimate meaning of life. Philosophical Issues Personal Identity Personal identity of the most basic nature is “what makes one the person one is” (Olson, 2010). This basic nature then leads
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rubber stamping mankind's collective genetic predisposition. In this paper, I will use the example of an evolutionary explanation against intentional killing for personal gain to argue for the existence of a disconnect between evolutionary biology and ethics. Ruse and Wilson might argue that human beings evolved with a genetic predisposition against murder for convenience. It is easy to see how this might be true. A person who kills others for convenience must live apart from society and apart from
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three sales so she and her coworkers can receive their bonuses? Determine the ethical course of action for the following three scenarios from the perspective of each of the three philosophical approaches: consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics. Then, complete the matrix below by writing a few sentences stating the ethical course of action and the reasoning from that approach’s perspective. Clearly differentiate the reasons for each of the three
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