Essays on Virtue

Introduction

Ethics and morality are extremely essential in every business. This is foremost objective to build businesses upon well-established business ethics and principles. However, it has been well noted that businesses in the contemporary global economy face some central ethical challenges (Jones, Parker, and Bos, 2005). To understand the nature of the ethical challenges faced by businesses and how to deal with them, it is imperative to understand the meanings and significance of some ethical and moral concepts. Morality is the set of established norms and values that are considered and portrayed as good and right within a given socio-cultural ...

Virtue describes morally “right” behavior, as defined by a given society. In our case, the most virtuous action would be for the boyfriend to tell his girlfriend that he has genital herpes, the primary goal of this action to prevent the girlfriend from experiencing unwanted physical harm (i.e. to allow the girlfriend to choose whether or not she wants to expose herself to genital herpes. Given this main goal, the next most virtuous action would be for the sister to warn the girlfriend of this herpes risk. This means that the most virtuous action changes depending on the context ...

Why is it important for a counselor to have an understanding of ethical theory?

Counselors have a sworn duty to help their clientele by listening and being attentive to the person’s problems, it can be argued that a counselor’s sole purpose is to guide someone on how they should deal with everyday problems. It cannot be argued that there are limits to a counselor’s power as far as giving advice, counselors are fully aware of what to do or say and what not to. For example, a counselor can instruct a person on how to effectively deal with their problems, but the counselor cannot give them specific instructions on how ...

The anti-Semitic sentiment set in motion by Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta and the near Satanic equation of Barabas had buttressed the plan of a play Shakespeare conceived in the commercial town of Venice with its life-loving gentry. The gentlemen of Venice who paraded themselves in gondolas in the romantic canals and waterways were instantly cut out for popular sympathy and affection, as the very opening seems to suggest. The dolour of Antonio and the volley of indulgent comments and cajoling coming in response proves it beyond doubt. To add to it are the fancies of the wastrel ...

Introduction

Through several stages of the development the world faces new challenges. One of them has the form of financial crisis. The cut down taking place in 2008 was not the first crisis that slow down the global economy and welfare of the state, while it was not the last one. This paper considers the situation at the financial sector during the spread of financial crisis in 2008, its main reasons and forthcoming consequences. Simultaneously, the author analyzes in this paper the impact of the crisis over the welfare of such states as the United States of America, the United ...

THE FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES MARKET

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Abstract

Financial derivatives market represent the huge platform used by the companies for the realization their activity and maintenance of the competition with the rivals. This platform assits the business unites to evaluate the value of the company and provide them with the opportunity to insure certain property with the help of economic agents opertaing in the financial derivatives market. This paper considers the role of economic agents in the financial derivatives market, their responsibilities and functions.

Introduction

Hull (2012) defines a derivative as a financial instrument whose value depends on (or derives from) the values of other, more ...

The four C’s of nursing leadership are courage, commitment, confidence and competence. These four C’s will enable a nurse leader to embrace and fulfill his duty. The first C is courage and it will enable the nurse to accept risk. Courage is a much valued leadership virtue. There is always a certain level of risk associated with pursuing once goal. Courage will enable a nurse to think above these risks and take the first step toward the goal. It is also required to face difficulties that arise while pursuing the path leading to a goal. It is ...

Philosophy

Philosophy is any activity that seeks to understand the basic truth about the world, people and the relationships that exist. Philosophers engage in studies of the basic and fundamental nature of existence, values, knowledge, reality, mind, language and reason (Flew, 1989). Philosophy began in Ancient Greek and the term used to refer to the “love of wisdom”. Philosophers are continuously engaged in asking, answering and arguing for their responses regarding the most basic questions in life. The activities of philosophy involve critically examining and assessing the assumptions and conclusions drawn by historians, thinkers, social and natural scientists as well ...

Sources of Law and areas of Law in Common Law Countries

Notion of common law and its features Common law has its origin in XI century and now exists in the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand. This system law is regarded uncodified and is based on the case law as the main source of the interpretation of the rules. This statement implies that cases considered by the courts in the previous years should be respected and taken by the followers as the examples of notorious behavior accepted by the society. Therefore, the system of common law accepts the pivotal role of the precedent in the society. Besides, the common ...

Virtue Ethics

Virtue ethics represents one of the main three approaches that characterize normative ethics. In essence, virtue ethics encompasses theories that emphasize the role of moral philosophy and character instead of acting to bring good consequences or doing one’s duty. More specifically, virtue ethics centers on a person and not on actions. Notably, virtue ethics focusses on the moral character of an individual performing the action rather than the consequences o or the ethical rules and duties of specific actions (Hooft 11). Besides dealing with the wrongness and rightness of a person’s actions, virtual Ethics provides guidelines for ...

The public does not view all industries as equal in the free trade market. I believe it is ethical to consider industries as unequal parties in trade. I base my argument on the fact that some industries produce products that are harmful to the consumers. The harm is caused if there is excessive usage of these products. The tobacco industry is an example of an industry that produces products that are harmful to human beings. Companies in the tobacco industry focus on the production and sale of tobacco cigarettes. There are many people who smoke tobacco cigarettes all over ...

Each individual encounters the challenge of pleasing others in their lives. However, striving to please others is an exhausting treadmill that leads to micromanaging of relationships, conversations, and situations. However, at times people may strive to please people without understanding the adverse impact these actions will have on their lives. Striving to make everyone happy leads to self-pity, discouragement, and relational stress. Christians in particular have a challenge in establishing a balance between pleasing others and pleasing God. Choosing to please God over man is the ideal manner in which Christians should live.

Paul said in Galatians 1:10, “If I ...

- Palmer, Anna. (2009) .”I’m not a “math’s-person”!’ reconstituting mathematical subjectivities in aesthetic teaching practices. Gender and Education.21 (4):387-404

#The author of the paper is a faculty member at the Department of Education, Stockholm University, Sweden. The author had credibility by virtue of her chair and position at the department, is a qualified teacher –educator and researcher. #$The purpose of the study was to understand the rationale behind the maths –anxieties. #The study was conducted to find out the loopholes in the traditional method of math education that creates anxiety and fear towards math #The ...

Question 1: Gramsci: Some Preliminary Points of Reference

Philosophy has had a long history in which it has been viewed as an ‘ivory tower’ pursuit – a subject which is to be studied by those who have either too much time or money on their hands. Through this view philosophy had no practical applicability and was simply a pass time for those who could afford it. Contrary to this view, Gramsci argued that not only is philosophy a practical subject of study – one which embodies the idea of ‘praxis’ but that every individual is a philosopher. This (somewhat deterministic) standpoint claims that all people are, in ...

Virtue Theory

As a human being like Bernard Madoff, he is a businessperson with immoral business conduct. His immoral business conduct is a result of his defective character. He desired for power, fame, money, and abundant lifestyle. All his ambition became a vanity that created a trap and nothing left for him is the difficulty to break free. Moral philosophers categorized his character as vices. Vices are the perfect opposite of virtues. Vices are bad habits of character with its ...

Ashford University

In the analysis of personal organizational ethics, it is important to consider the identification of the key problems that relates to the business ethics of the organization. With these two organizations, the Visayan Forum Foundation, Inc and Jollibee Foods Corporation, both have its key problems. The key problems are the core targets to evaluate the stands of the organizations, how they responded to the problems legally, socially, and politically. Consequently, from the individual responses of the organizations on legal, social, and political perspectives, ethnographic researchers can provide reflections and criticisms of their actions based on the ...

Question 1: International relations mainstream theories

The contribution of post modernism to the field of international relations has been far-reaching. The major element of this approach is the criticism to Marxism. It takes various strands of thinking and among them is the constructivist which is based on the philosophy of constructivism being applied in social settings. The theory talks about what it means to say that something is socially constructed. It illustrates social beliefs and facts that seem to have some sense of reality in them. But in reality, these social beliefs would function for individuals as I they ...

Adeimantus intervenes and said that being a ruler is unfair since there is no official approval of wealth or a will, no time to travel to a place of your choice, keep your lover happiness or perform actions that brings happiness to the people being ruled.

Socrates argues that their main objective in transforming this city is to make everybody in the city happy and economically productive rather than making only some specified group of people happy in the expense of others. He says that they are guardians and they need to find justice and do away with injustices practices among ...

Philosophy and Social Commentary in Spenser’s ‘The Faerie Queene’

Few books in the Western literary canon have elicited as broad a range of critical interpretations as Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. It is a deeply allegorical work of great imagination, but to what extent, and in what ways, it is allegorical has been the subject of considerable debate since its publication in 1590. Some believe it was, in part, intended as a tribute to Queen Elizabeth I, while others claim that it is a representation of the tumultuous world of Elizabethan England, which was emerging from the violence and oppression that marked the death struggle between Catholics and Protestants. Still others ...

Summary of the Article

The article generally focuses on the various blocs that are in existence throughout the global arena. He highlights several factors into perspectives concerning mainly the extent at which such persons have advanced in formulating and crafting adequate policy framework that can be used to effectively mold the global peaceful co-existence and the rapid climate change. These factors are being ironed out by the author to stipulate the fact that, the global scene is in prone to abject mayhem if lack of proper regulatory framework is put in place to control and ensure that every ...

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. By Benjamin Franklin. Ed. Frank Woodworth Pine.( Garden City, N.Y.: Garden City Pub. Co. , 1916.) 343 pp. Reviewed by

Benjamin Franklin is one of America’s greatest statesmen and was born in Boston in the year 1706 as the 15th of 17 children, and the youngest of his father’s sons. Franklin was born to Josiah Franklin, a candle, and soap maker who had immigrated to the United States from Northamptonshire in England (2). The young Benjamin disliked his father’s profession highly and did not want to follow his example. Hence, Franklin went to ...

Variations on the Theme of World Order in the Analects and the Tao Te Ching

In the Analects of Confucius order has to do with political order. Confucius is interested in the “ordering of the people” in order to create a more justice society (Analects). In the Tao Te Ching, order is also important but it is of a different kind. It speaks of a cosmic order, of putting “things in order before they exist” (Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching). In this way, the two texts offer a variation on a theme when it comes to the notion of ordering of the world. In this paper, it will be shown that order is expressed in four different aspect. The ...

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was born in Konigsburg, East Prussia. He attended a classical Latin School at age eight where he studied for the next eight years. He then moved to the University of Konigsburg where he studied mathematics, philosophy and physics. He left his studies for a while when his father died and earned a living as a private tutor. In 1755 he returned to the university and earned his doctorate. He became a professor there teaching metaphysics and logic. In 19792, the King of Prussia prohibited Kant from speaking or writing on religious subjects; Kant obeyed the order. As ...

My Leadership Traits and Competencies

Leadership and its related concepts are an area that has attracted the interest of several; researchers on the verge to develop an understanding of what makes good and bad leadership in an organization. Several believe and philosophies have been advanced to explain leadership. Besides, individual personality is also believed to have a great bearing to and a person’s leadership style (Drinon, 2012). Every person, good or bad, has his/her strengths and weakness. To become a better leader, one needs to focus on maintaining the strengths as he/she endeavors to improve on the weaknesses. This paper addresses on self-evaluation in which my ...

Intuitionism should be the most interesting phenomenon in modern philosophy. Intuitionism is a view, according to which the knowledge can be directly given to reason, as an inspiration insight, which is more comprehensive than a rational or sensual experience. In ethics it implies a point of view that the basic moral principles understood intuitively rather than through other cognitive processes.

Misconception of Kantian implied idealism that separating the mind from the appreciation of living, sensual contemplation, but also the metaphysical way of thinking, absolutizes distinction between direct and indirect knowledge and unable to find a valid way of development of knowledge.

Kant developed ...

Slide: 1 Introduction

Explaining the Ethics of Golden Rule: Defining the Golden Rule, The golden rule is defined as rule of treating someone as they would like to be treated. Chuck Klosterman’s article “Does the Golden Rule Hold Up in Modern Society?” examines if it is rational for the rule of golden rule if it is rational. The other says that treating another person as they would like to be treated raises the question, what if the person’s way of wanting to be treated compromises your personal values.

Slide: 2 Understanding the ethics of “golden rule”

The ambiguity of the golden rule on ethics is that one ...

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WELCOME-SLIDE /ADDRESS My dear respected faculty member/teachers and fellows, Asslamualaikum /Good Morning/ Afternoon Oil & Gas industry and environment are much important for us, and we have to save it for ourselves and future generations. Environmental issues are on the increase at the world and it could affect the alternatives of corrosion prevention in the future. Ecological needs still to be developed; however, some elements have been established.

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SLIDE#3 Saudi Arabia geography mostly comprises of deserts & seas and its economy is much dependent on oil & Gas industry. We need to protect our industry for sustainable progress ...

The choice for the profession is one of the most challenging tasks an individual has to deal with in life. Every person has carefully to make a choice of a profession to join. While making a choice for any profession, passion and interest should be kept above everything else. Many people always find themselves in a dilemma while thinking of the profession to join. From childhood, there are career dreams that people usually desire in their lives. It is funny that every time a child comes across a professional, he/she gets interested in joining that particular profession. The biggest question is, “what motivates a person to ...

QUESTION 1

Mary is a Conscientious Moral Agent. Identify a moral argument or arguments that Mary can apply in this case. Use the facts of this case to explain the moral reasoning and moral principle(s) that Mary applies in this case.

ANSWER: Given the condition in which Mary was in, it is important that she addresses the situation as impartial as she can be. In this particular case, she should therefore forget that she is the mother of one of the students in the place of employment of one of their patients in the hospital who was having psychological health issues. ...

Introduction

Recently, the problem of corporate crime and ethical misconduct had seriously aggravated. More often ethical misconduct and non-compliance occurs in the field of environmental regulation, health care, securities law, and safety regulations. Nowadays whistleblowing is recognized as a tool of detection and prevention of malpractice and corruption. The motivations of whistleblowers are different including protection of human rights, fairly paly, disclosure of malpractices, human safety, and adherence to laws. Thank to whistleblowers, corruption practices are revealed. Meanwhile, whistleblowers often suffer from the disclosures they initiated because disclosure meets with resistance from the side of corrupted structures. Therefore, whistleblowers ...

1. The main theme of the book is the focus on the central idea that the personal character of a leader is above all positions or power. The book emphasizes that a leader must win its followers by its own virtue. He should be a role model, rather than a forceful person to lead his followers. The personal attributes may vary, but the leader must utilize these to make others obey his command. “Authentic Leader” is a term coined by David Irvine and Jim Reger to define the leader who leads by the strength of his characters.” Is he for real?” is the question ...

1. Critically evaluate the following suggestion: “If the price elasticity of demand for food is low, therefore if you own a restaurant, you can charge higher price to increase revenue”.

Consumers’ sensitivity to price is known as the price elasticity of demand. Simply put, it measures the degree of responsiveness of consumers to a given change in price. A good with an elastic demand will have a value greater than 1 and will experience that people are very sensitive to a given change in price. Products with an inelastic demand will find that even if price increases by a small amount, the quantity ...

Introduction

The leaders of today currently work in an environment that requires them to be collaborative. This is especially the case in the education sector where leaders are expected to show extreme collaboration in order to achieve the goals and objectives of education. Collaboration means co-labor in order to achieve common goals and often involves working across personal boundaries and exhibiting reciprocities of value. Collaboration requires the crossing of boundaries and establishing trust between different members of a given education setting. It involves joining the assets and resources of different stakeholders of the education setting and using them to ...

Compare Aristotle with Kant, Rawls, and the utilitarians. Which theory offers us the most successful theory of justice?

The essence of justice is a massively studied model. With the help of different social sciences, head scholars continue to reflect on the field and outline of what appears to bear a visionary semblance but whose versions in time of history has often taken different perspectives. An equiparation of the versions of justice in main disciplines of psychology, legal studies, philosophy, economic studies, and sociology, for example, show only very insular convergence lines. An analysis of Aristotle’s interpretation of justice in comparison with Victorian principles and later on in the works of Kant, Rawls and utilitarians and other contemporary thoughts ...

Little progress has been made so far in demystifying the controversy of judging the criterion of what is right or wrong. Since the dawn of philosophy, the question of the “summum bonum” or the greatest good concerning morality. The question has resulted in division into sects and schools warning against each other and is recognized as the core problem when thinking speculatively.

According to the Kantian theory, the basis of defining good or bad is based on the will or the intention behind the action. There is nothing impossible to think of in the world or outside it ...

In his article “On Being an Atheist,” H.J. McCloskey has argued in many instances that absolute certainty of God’s existence cannot be proved using the “proofs” embedded in classical arguments. According to McCloskey, the classical proofs for God’s existence do not portray Him as the all-knowing, all-powerful, or all-perfect being that Christians perceive Him to be. The existence of evil in a world created by a God with the qualities of being all-knowing, powerful, and perfect leads McCloskey to conclude that atheism would be more comforting than to believe in such a God. McCloskey’s disapproval of ...

Gender equality is a human right, an essential condition for the complete enjoyment by women and men. It means that there is an equal empowerment, visibility, participation of women and men in all area of public and private lives. The acceptance and appreciation are highly necessary of the complementarities of women and men with their roles in the society as individuals. It measures an equal representation of both women and men in a range of role and responsibility. It does not imply that men and women are the same; however, they should have equal value in the society and with equal ...

Executive Summary

There are set of standards and policies that guide how people behave in the places of work. These form workplace or business ethics. The ethical viewpoints include utilitarian view, deontology ethics, virtue ethics and intuitionism. From the case in accounting department, there are various considerations in the analysis of the case. This paper looks at the viewpoints mentioned and analyze them in relation to the case where Mr. Jones is reported to be developing a workplace relationship with Ms. Smith.

Introduction

Ethics in the workplace can be defined as the guidelines and policies that benchmark how the members of the organization ...

Ring of Gyges is a story that tries to demonstrate that people are only ethical out of fear of punishment. In addition, people would do whatever they desired if they had no fear. According to Glaucon, people obey the laws only from fear of punishment. The only four reasons I can provide for obeying the law that do not involved punishment or reward; good will, moral virtue, belief, and freedom.

People obey the laws because they accepted the right of legal authorities to make rules that regulate their behavior. Good will is an absolute good in itself and good in ...

The intrinsic worth or virtue of an individual is best known as the qualities a person retains that motivate him or her to act in a decent or virtuous way. A person without any virtue is not approachable. Similarly, to be an ideal boss is a huge responsibility that really needs an experienced and eligible person to succeed. The main requirement in my boss would be the “Integrity” and he or she must be an integral part of the team as well as the organization. A few other features that make an ideal boss are to be a good communicator, be a leader, ...

1. Briefly explain St. Anselm’s ontological argument for the existence of God. Explain one problem that this argument faces.

St Anselm’s ontological argument is an attempt at proving the existence of god through a purely. Anselm gets into the idea of the definition of God. In that definition he believes that God, he believes the definition of God is that nothing greater can be conceived. He believes that the greatest being conceivable must exist because otherwise it is not the greatest being conceived since existence is greater than non-existence. Anselm uses this line of thought to “prove” the existence of God.

There are a number of problems with this argument. Because if one believes that the ontological argument ...

- In Book 1 of the Republic, why does Socrates think that it is never just for one person to injure another, whether friend or enemy? Socrates begins his argument with the proposition that justice consists in repayment of debts. The general argument was on the lines that one ought not to injure friends. Injuring enemies was considered to be acceptable. It was taken for granted that friends are good and enemies are bad. However, Socrates pointed out that a man can be seemingly good or bad. One who pretends to be a friend may have bad intentions at heart. ...

Introduction

Business ethics theories are the moral principles that a company implements to ensure that all the individuals working in it act with acceptable behaviors. A few business theories that exist are the utilitarian, rights, common good, justice, and virtue approached. In not-for profit organizations it can include: honesty, integrity, confidentiality, transparency and equity .The utilitarian approach is the oldest one and it focuses on using ethical actions that promotes the most good or value among the society while minimizing the amount of harm as possible. Businesses use this approach to ensure the outcome of various situations helps a larger number ...

Introduction

The PharmaCare pharmaceuticals is one of the most well-known and distinguished companies that has had many success in the world. It is well known to have a good reputation for being caring, good services, well-organized thus producing products of high quality and ethical. The company is known for their generosity especially to the people with low income. They provide free discounts for the customers. Due to their success, they also strive to help those students who are in need of scholarships. The company has also formed the We CARE initiative, which is a commitment that strives to help conserve the environment. ...

In the scenario presented, three ethical schools are applicable in providing the best solution(s). The three ethical schools include consequentialist theory, deontological theory and virtue theory. Consequentialist/utilitarian school of thought considers the end of an action, deontological school of thought considers the motive of an action, and virtue theory considers whether the action conforms to what is right.

Coming back to the scenario in question, the decision made by the court has the full backing of ethics. This is because the virtue theory, for instance, evaluates the kind of life an individual wants to live before determining the ...

Using subversion in images, paintings or art is a process in which the system of values and principles which are operating in a society or a place is being contradicted. It is usually common for attacking the public about the political and social system in place. It could also be used to attack the public about their concept of morality. Subversion is common in the paintings during the medieval and renaissance age. In this essay, two paintings are analysed about their use of subversion. The essay also opts to explore the impact of the image during its development and in the modern ...

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- In what ways did the video "The Crisis of Credit" demonstrate the failure of the banking industry's Fiduciary Relationship to investors and home owners?

The video explains a worldwide financial disaster that effected everyone. It started on the burst of the dot com bubble when the federal reserve of the United States decreased the interest rate to 1%. This value dramatically dropped the investment level because of the reduced ROI. This action made banks to take more and more loans from the Federal Reserve. The leverage increased as it became very easy to return a loan, so the demand for credit increased rapidly.

The banks took a lot of credit, and they were easily able to payback and made a lot of profits. Investors saw this as ...

The Bhagavad Gita and One Thousand and One Nights are two of the most important works of Eastern literature and philosophy; not only do they tell fascinating stories full of intrigue and entertainment, they also provide a degree of enlightenment and insight that is completely unlike anything seen in Western literature. Both stories handle the idea of storytelling and character, as well as plot structure, in extremely innovative ways, showcasing the ways in which unorthodox ways to tell stories can help to convey large ideas of faith, virtue and the universe. While the Bhagavad Gita relies centrally on one conversation ...

Ethics is the science of the morality of human acts. It is a normative science because it concerns matters of values rather than of facts. Ethical values involve the concepts of goodness and badness of human acts or rightness and wrongness of conduct. Ethics is also theoretical because it speculates on the reason or cause why human acts and conduct are qualified to be good or right. It is also considered as practical because it is applied to the actual lives of people as a guiding principle for their decisions and actions. Since ethics deals with the conduct of mankind, there ...

The term love has been used in its broadest sense, but, used to refer to individuals who posses tender feelings for the others, and would not want any harm befalling their loved ones. Thus, love being a virtue it is interesting if it can inspire positive action in people possessing it. Phaedrus in Plato’s symposium holds that love deserves more recognition as a god that has significant influence on the course of our lives. He places love in the position of a deity, as old as the earth itself.

On the ability of love to inspire positive action, Phaedrus creates a link ...

There is usually a thin line when determining between legal and ethical issues. In marketing, the strategies used are mostly informed by legal and ethical considerations. The same is true when considering product safety and intellectual property. This means that there is a close relationship between law and ethics; however, it is the existence of the law that makes ethical values enforceable. In general, therefore, ethics are those values or rules of conduct that are created so as to guide a particular group of people while legality is something that pertains to the law. Ethics, in other words, should be contemplated within ...

The Weakness of the Man at the Presence of the Woman

Several research studies and journals have devoted their attention to feminist issues, especially when investigating issues of virtue ethics and gender differences based on the aforementioned philosophical idea (virtue ethics). Rather than help us determine what we ought to do, virtue ethics asks how we ought to be in order to become good members of the society (MacKinnon, 2013). Naturally, men act with much aggression than women do. Additionally, men appear to be weaker when they are around women. In most cases, men have given in to the demands of women, simply because they are women, and not because ...

1.0 Executive summary

Business players always devise strategies aimed at keeping them afloat in the market. They build up on their competitive advantage which in turn they utilize to be ahead of their peers. The strategy may be informed by what the customers, employees and the management expect of each other. South West airline has strived to offer flights within the USA and the surrounding areas which are lowly priced while at the same time with excellent services. Through this strategy the company has managed to build a reputation for itself whereby it has emerged has the company many in the country opt ...

Frozen yoghurt has over time gained popularity with the population. This has largely been attributed to the shift in focus to healthy foods as well as new marketing strategies by the producers. In the contemporary society, people have become more conscious about their own health and this has had its own impact on the eating lifestyles and hence the choices. Obese rates and other health complications have been mainly attributed to poor eating habits and in the need to combat these, the younger generation in particular have turned to seeking health foods. On the other hand, the trendy culture ...

1. The word “philosophy” means in Greek “the love/pursuit of wisdom” – considering the first Greek philosophers (the Pre-Socratics), what propelled them to pursue a new kind of “wisdom”? What were they unsatisfied with?

The pre-Socratic philosophers were referred to as physiologoi, meaning physical or natural philosophers. They sought to provide natural and rational justifications for various occurrences. The “essence of things” propelled them to pursue new king of wisdom by posing questions such as; where does everything come from? Can nature be explained mathematically? From what does everything emanate? As such, their concerns were ontology, mathematics, and cosmology. They were unsatisfied with the mythological explanations to the occurrences that were being experienced during their time and sought to provide reasoned explanations to natural occurrences.

2. How are the concepts of Lack (Poverty) and Resourcefulness (Resource) pertinent to Philosophy (and Love, according to Plato)? What does the philosopher lack, what resources does he/she have that enables him/her to attain what is lacking?

The concept of love depicts the fullness ...

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This paper holds that compromises are types of agreement and types of decision. Its major objectives are the following. First, is to identify the formal organization of compromise situations (CD), or dilemmas where some CD cannot be avoided that includes jeopardizing the integrity of the maker of the decisions. Second, that by the notions of Amartya Sen’s of the basic and compulsive judgments and create a CD in a condition of compromise that is justified be morally. It concludes that the justified compromise situations involve rationally justified moral regret that assists to bridge the gap between consequentialism and deontology, respectively.

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- Describe your personality (choose 3 power words)

Personally, it is hard for me to describe my personality on my own perspective. However,

with an honest personal-assessment, I would describe my personality as a generous person especially to those who are less fortunate individuals, perceptive to the things around me, both in humanity and the environment, and enthusiastic in every task or matter that I usually do in life.

- Explain your primary ethical perspectives.

- What are the ways that you try to live an ethically good life and why do you think that these ways are the ...

The major role of any communicator is to pass along knowledge or information in his possession to a particular audience. It is essential to adapt the method of communication to varying audiences so as to enable that audience to comprehend the ideas that one is trying to put across. The mode of communication to one target audience may not resonate with another. For example, if the target audience is comprised of little children, then the communication should be straight forward and should not contain a lot of technical elements (Young, 64). If the target audience possesses some expertise on the subject ...

- What is Philosophical Ethics?

Perhaps one of the most important functions of philosophy is the inquiry of human behavior and the rationale behind it. Philosophers are concerned about the broad field of ethics, morality and the effects of morality and facets thereof. While the said facets morality is related, they are also distinct and concerned about unrelated thinking process in the pursuit of consciousness. Still, ethics has come be defined as the study of morality in the realms of philosophy. Usually, ethics refer to the analysis of values and the concepts such as good, evil, right, wrong and the role of responsibility. Even ...

Niccolo Machiavelli, a politician, Italian historian, and a philosopher was born in Florence, Italy on May 3, 1469. He had little or no interest in philosophy as he believed that the role of philosophy in human analysis must be lesser than the real-world political apprehensions. His short book “The Prince” considered to be his masterpiece gained wide readership as the book contained some strong and real-world perceptions into human behavior and it also portrayed the negative view of human nature. The Prince is a mild disapproval that the rulers should be polite and principled in their character.

Machiavelli’s political philosophy intimately ...