Understand the reasoning behind the ethical principle or behavior. Duty-based ethics are based on the idea that a behavior is right because of the feeling of responsibility to do the right thing, no matter what the cost -- doing the right thing because it is the "right thing to do." Res...
If you take a naive consequentialist approach and just assign simple utilities to outcomes you run the risk of running into counter-intuitive dilemmas such as this illustrative example. 3.6.2 Moral Diversity and Testing One of the main challenges for machine ethics is the lack of agreement as ...
With an enterprise license agreement, a customer can pay for a license on an annual basis and receive immediate access to the software. This eliminates the need for a customer to register software each time a new employee in the company uses it or each time it's installed on a new device...
Along with the development of society, more and more problems are brought to our attention, one of the most serious issue is the gray population. Nevertheless, the significance of elderly people in society cannot be overstated. As...
A tolling agreement is a contract between one company that owns raw materials and a company that's engaged to process those raw...
Ethical subjectivism contends that objective concepts of good and evil or right and wrong do not exist. This leads into other theories such as moral relativism which suggests these concepts are determined by agreement. On the other hand, ethical egoism argues that what is right and good is the...
Even if promoting animal welfare is widely accepted as a laudable goal, the enduring lack of agreement on how to conceptualize welfare complicates the ethical discussion on such breeding technology applications. Finally, even if breeding technologies can in fact enhance animal welfare, one may still...
What is an operational-level agreement? An operational-level agreement (OLA) is a contract that defines how various IT groups within a company plan to deliver a service or set of services. These agreements are designed to address and solve the problem of ITsilos. They set out specific criteri...
但是应该清楚地与作为对错思想之基础的虚拟契约(hypothetical agreement)的理念区分开来。【155】 为何接受这种道德动机论述?1.看起来具有现象学的准确性:当反思行为错误所提供的理由时,最好的描述关涉到这种行为置我与他者的关系:他者可能合理地反对我所做的;2.提供了对Prichard困境的正确回应:描述了一种与他者的...
Facts are crucial for hypothesis testing and validation in the scientific method. 1 What is an example of a principle in ethics? "Do no harm" is a principle often cited in medical and ethical discussions. Is it possible to have a principle without a fact? Yes, principles can exist independ...