Week 2: Student Response To Discussion 1 & Discussion 2

Ashford 3: - Week 2 - Discussion 2

Lori Smith

4/7/2017 11:40:18 PM

The Three Ethical Perspectives

Identify the basic themes, topics, and concepts that make up the discipline of ethics. Explain the themes or ideas that unite the different ethical theories.

Describe how you might apply one of the ethical theories or perspectives we have discussed in this class to one of the following social issues

The basic themes, topics, and concepts that make up the discipline of ethics are philosophical ethics, ethical theory, moral theory, and moral philosophy relativism, emotivism, and ethical egoism. Relativism are the themes or ideas that unite the different ethical theories. Moral relativism may be any of several philosophical positions concerned with the differences in moral judgments across different people and cultures.

Utilitarianism evaluates the morality of an act in terms of its consequences.

Deontology theories focus on duty, and the rules one is required to follow to be moral.

Virtue Ethics emphasizes the moral character—the virtue—of the agent in evaluating its morality.

Limiting smoking in public places, such as public buildings, restaurants, or city parks.

The research that I found, showed that the tobacco industry uses a method that recruits restaurants to help them by fighting against smoke-free environments (Glantz, 1987). The Accommodation Program served as a link between Phillip Morris (PM) tried to claim that their finances would suffer if the smoking bans continued by Billons. Even thought there is proof that smoking and second hand smoke caused cancer and child defects in embryos, bronchitis and asthma in young children. The tobacco industry and PM has tried to fight smoke-free proposal and tried to develop their on hospitality organization to meet its legislative and strategic needs (Glantz, 1987).

The industry knows that this is wrong and their willingness not to care about the people that are affected by smoking and second hand smoke, they have no moral character or virtue, they are found lying and hiding the facts on the issues of clean air and mostly interested in their financial aspect of this issue of public safety.


References

Stanton A. Glantz, PH.D.Achieving a smoke-free society. Cirulation 1987;76:746-52 circ.ahajournals.org

Mosser, K. (2013). Ethics and social responsibility(2nd ed.) [Electronic version]. Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu/