Rather, that the pleasures from pursuits engaging distinctly human capacities, those pleasures which distinguish us from swine, would be weighted more in his scale such that we could choose them over baser, bodily pleasures such as can be enjoyed by non-rational beings. ... This is an attractive assertion to those people who wish to celebrate the rationality which distinguishes people from all other beings. ...

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Many people associate business and its practices with greed and love for profit, which most of the times is directly related to immorality. In this paper I will try to answer the question "Is business ethics an oxymoron?" by examining four ethical approaches: Utilitarianism, Kantianism, Virtue Ethic...

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Taking a course in philosophy is like taking a journey to a foreign land. Lets start by defining the word orient. Orient means to so as to face the East, to place in a definite direction to the points of the compass or other fixed or known directions. In the following paragraphs I will discuss the m...

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Taking a course in philosophy is like taking a journey to a foreign land. Lets start by defining the word orient. Orient means to so as to face the East, to place in a definite direction to the points of the compass or other fixed or known directions. In the following paragraphs I will discuss the m...

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• Approx Pages: 10