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This 7 page paper provides an overview of both philosophical points of view. They are explained, compared and contrasted and discussed with the use of contemporary examples. Various philosophers and other thinkers are discussed in terms of the subject matter inclusive of Max Weber, Nicolo Machiavelli, and Immanual Kant.
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supports this point of view would argue that one should not kill one innocent person to save two other people from death (1995). Although the consequences would mean that more
would die, that would violate the innocent persons rights (1995). Teleological ethics or utilitarianism, on the other hand, sees the rightness or wrongness of an act as dependent only
on the consequences (Honderich, 1995). Thus, in the argument presented above, it would not be necessarily wrong to kill an individual if it would save two others. The reason
is that the greater good would be served by killing the innocent person. Similarly, in a war situation, there is the concept of the just war. Wars are fought and
it is reasoned that lives will be sacrificed for the greater good, even though killing is wrong. To take this a step further, Rawls makes a distinction between deontological and
teleological theories as it concerns notions of right and good (1995). The latter defines good independently form the concept of right, and the right is defined as something that
maximizes the good (1995). The former position does not specify anything regarding good or right however (1995). The theoretical situation of taking a life to save two hardly ever
arises. How can these outlandish case studies and extreme concepts be applied to administrative ethics for example? First, what is the definition of administrative ethics? Administrative ethics is an area
of ethics that is concerned with how organizations influence the ethics of their members, and how the members influence each other ("The Home Care," 2002). It further is concerned
with how members and organizations deal with the community and the government (2002). Basically, administrative ethics is ethics as it applies to organizations. Many examples of unethical behavior arise in
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