That would be like taking the logo that Coca-Cola uses to market its products and making it say Caffeine-a-Cola instead of Coca-Cola and using a darker shade of red. Still looks like the original product even though there are subtle differences in the name and color scheme. ... The purpose in my opinion for recognizing an implied-in-fact contract is for the protection of an idea or service that you present to a company so that if that idea is used by that company you get compensated for their use of it. If you offer a service to someone and they use that service you should be paid whether t...

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I do not insist that being typical 'American folk song like music' is no of aesthetic value. ... In a nutshell, an aesthetic value is what makes you feel sense and then think the embedded 'beauty' that you were not able to detect easily. ... And the statement we heard in the class struck me concerning this question; "The more you know, the more you see". ... It is true that the more you know about the music theoretically, the more musical constructions you can catch from listening to the music. ... Therefore, you could find yourself having...

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Then you have Tyco International whose CEO was convicted of stealing $600 million from the global manufacturing company. And could you believe the state judge had declared the 2004 trial a mistrial because he said there had been undue pressure on one of the jurors! ... World.Com, a huge communications company, admitted in June 2002 that international accounting irregularities made the company look like they were almost $4 billion more profitable than it was. ... It goes like this: to their customers, their responsibility is to provide high quality products that people can trust, and all at a f...

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Negative duties refers to "obligations to refrain from such things as killing or robbing" (Foot 96), whereas positive duties would be obligations to do positive things, like giving to charity. ... The other case Foot proposes is one which involves imagining that you are the driver of a trolley. ... You realize that the brakes of the trolley have failed and your only options involve continuing on the same track and killing five workmen, or you could steer the trolley onto the other side of the tracks and kill just one worker. ... This would avoid cases in which a certain moral theory ...

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He stresses that you should never treat someone as simply a means but always as a means to an end. ... For example someone can actually excuse an evil like slavery under Mill's theory of utilitarianism. ... This theory forces the individual to take into account the good of the many before making a decision, in which case you get a discouraging action which benefits the individual but harms others. ... No matter what moral system you try to convince someone of, they will always have their own natural belief for someone's own happiness. ... In a system like Kant's if most of i...

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In other words, the goodness you give will come back to you, as the age old saying goes; any act you commit in order to bring pleasure to another will eventually bring pleasure back to you. ... This is a principle, which Bentham is quite firm on, even going so far as to site examples from other cultures where the punishment did not fit the crime, like Anglo-Saxon laws. Some of Bentham's ideas clearly remain in today's laws, things like "when two offenses come in competition, the punishment for the greater offense must be sufficient to induce a man to prefer less" (Rivers). ... On ...

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As a CEO you have an obligation to your stockholders and to your job to increase profitability however as a person, you have a moral obligation to your fellow humans to reduce suffering. ... By coercing someone, you are manipulating them – making them a mean – to do as you wish – the end. Furthermore, by doing so, you are fundamentally violating their dignity as a person and moral being. ... You are still morally obligated to those working under you to see to it that they are sufficiently compensated and relatively taken care of. ... Although it may seem like common sense tha...

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Nevertheless one can't help but apply one's own values to any and all situations in some sort of self-absorbed ethnocentristic trial of values, something that, without fail, always makes us out in the wrong, and Ryunosuke is human, just like everyone else. ... As Tajomaru says, "You kill people with your power, with your money. Sometimes you kill them on the pretext of working for their good It's hard to say who is the greater sinner, you or me." ... He seems to stand back looking upon his audience with a knowing smile that appears to say, "Yes, now you too know what I know, ...

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You can never justify what's right and what is wrong. ... Regardless of the size of the company, corporations have a high regard for their futures, like the Oxford Street Pedlar who were subjected to the almighty business ethics where they were typically known for their culture. ... Relatively speaking, we have entrenched that impulse on behaviors can be separated when you want to do the right thing. ... Generally speaking, in most cases, when you have aspirations on what you want to become, shows great values and standards and it's an enhancement to modern businesses. ... Its soul...

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In order to really understand how a company can operate in an international market you must first obtain a grasp on what kind of company you are dealing with. ... By now, you should have an understanding of what lengths Sara Lee has gone to so that everyone in the organization practices the same rules of ethical procedures. I am sure that you are impressed, as I was, with the fundamental believes that they have instilled in their employees. ... It ranks second in the $11 billion US packaged meat industry, and comes first for sales of products like hot dogs and cocktail sausages. Its bake...

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Also, as employees, we will most likely to expect a happy working environment where we are not treating like a tool in purpose of making profit to power groups. ... In this report, I would like to discus deeply about the aspect of moral and immoral action in business world. ... A news report about "Coca Cola's surprising effecting on body' by Nelly states that ' after you finish drinking a can of Coca-Cola, you have what amounts to approximately 10 teaspoons of sugar in your body unlike fat from food, it is very difficult to get rid of This causes your blood pressure an...

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Do you find out how you can get in on the deal? ... You know no matter what you do, someone is not going to be happy with your decision. So what do you do???? ... How would you define the problem if you stood on the other side of the fence? ... Like any other aspect of business, codes of ethics and codes of conduct are not written in stone, and can be revised in the best interest of the organization as a whole, this includes the employees. ...

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Given the dynamic nature of the Honor Code and the opportunity you will have to shape and change the Code if you come to Haverford, what issues and ideas do you think are essential for an Honor Code to focus on, and how should an Honor Code address them? ... " This statement, like the norm in squash, forms an important aspect of an honor code because it calls upon individuals to act independently, and then to share their concern with the community. ...

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For example if a lecturer says ,will give a student an A, if he/she go out with me or will fail you in this class, if you don't have sex with me". ... For example if a lecturer makes non hostile comments towards female students like saying girls are bad at mathematics or criticizing only female students when they speak up in a class. ... This is golden rule theory in a bible, which states that, "do to others as you would have them do to you" (Luke 6:31) and to Immanuel Kant's categorical imperative that we treat others as ends in themselves and not as means to an end. ...

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Socrates, believed that the soul was immortal, he taught that the search for truth should be the most important goal in ones life, which would only be fulfilled finally after you die and the soul is released from the body. ... With this statement you can see that Epicurus accused the people of creating the gods in their own image, so they created what we would call false gods. Epcicurus believed and taught that you should think of a deity as imperishable and blessed being, and you should not attribute to it anything foreign to its! ... Socrates" belief of an immortal soul made it easier for ...

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For some, the way to live your life and live a good life is to live totally for yourself, to do everything solely on the basis that what you do is good for you and the only person that matters in yourself. ... Utilitarianism is based largely on what is known universally as the golden rule, that is do unto others as you would have them do to you, love your neighbor as yourself. ... Like a true philosopher, Mill realized there would be objections to his ideas and often answered these objections by pointing out what was wrong with the objection or simply brushed them off as nonsense. ...

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Others claim that you can't stop scientific progress and that it may even be immoral to limit experimentation on animals if such work might lead to new medical treatments for some humans. ... This "animal rights" perspective holds that animals experience pain and have human, or human like, emotions and thus should not be subjected to experimentations that can lead to confinement, pain and suffering, and even death. ...

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Mill feels that the best way to maximize all around happiness is to concentrate on maximizing the happiness of those people whose needs, goals, and ambitions you understand the most. These needs, goals, and ambitions include your own, and those people closest to you which include family members, and friends. ... Besides just producing happiness like Utilitarianism, Confucianism shapes people in my opinion to be wiser, and respectful. ...

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I believe that this theory has its truths due to the way that Aristotle feels it relates to certain situations, like someone being a judge and making rulings of matters in which they have had previously made decisions upon. ... I believe this theory holds great truth in the business world, ethical decisions that are made solely give you a great representation of an individual's moral virtue. ... This theory correlates to business in a sense that as you go through your careers, learning and making the right choice is vital in creating happiness as Aristotle describes as living your life ma...

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Government and its agencies tend to use statements such as "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" (Shikspack, 2013) to argue their use of saying activities. ... In a situation like this an ethical speculation referred to as ethical relativism is the theory that can be used. ... Unfortunately, in situations like these, persons that have power may not always be warranted to do the most ethical thing that is best for everyone but themselves even though it may be illegal. ...

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Regardless of the benefits this does not seem like an option to me. ... It is an actual time-bomb ready to explode, because when our prominent scientists are prepared to acquiesce in the deliberate creation of deformed and dying quasi-human life, you know we are facing a bioethical abyss. ... As much as some scientists would like to think, we are not cut out to play God. ...

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To this end, In The Prince, Machiavelli offers the following advice to would be princes: "You should know, then, that there are two ways of contending: one by using laws, the other, force. ... He feels that it is necessary for the prince to go beyond "properly human means" when acting in the political realm and that it is not useful for the prince to keep his word because he will have to deal with men who "are treacherous and would not keep their promises to you" and because of this it would not be prudent for the prince to keep his promises to them if "such fidelity would damage him" . ...

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Is the company as an entity liable or do you look into individual employees within that company? ... Next you would have to analyze the final ruling from a corporate perspective and then we must examine the macro issue of corporate responsibility in order to attempt to find a resolution for cases like these. ... A process like this can serve the dual purpose of finding irresponsible employees as well as those that are morally excused. ... It is through efforts like these that a corporation can raise the ethical standard of everyone in their organization. ...

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Much like artwork, media ads are designed to invoke emotion-arousing feelings in the viewer, preferably strong enough to result in the product being purchased. ... (BG 2), and each advertiser wants you, the viewer, to see their product as essential to your pleasure. ... Divine law is closely intertwined with moral objectivism, where an absolute principle like "killing is wrong on all levels" is espoused. ...

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However we see the gods as being amoral as they are easily manipulated by the promise of material gifts in sacrifice and libation, unconcerned about the fate of most mortals bar a select few such as Sarpedon, trivialising matters such as war by indulging in a futile "battle of the gods" when the defining feature of a god is immortality: "You will never kill me, I am not a creature of fate" (book22 pg351) as opposed to knowledge and power which, although useful, are not an obligatory attribute- we see Zeus being deceived in book 14 line153. They also engage in deception, adultery, theft, rape, ...

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