Ethics

Answer each of the questions below. (Do NOT retype the question on your paper.) Simply type your answer corresponding to questions 1,2,3, or 4. Each essay must be one full typed page each, double-spaced in Times New Roman, size 12 font. Be sure to label your paper with your name, the date and course section number ALL on the first top line. You will be PENALIZED for not following these instructions.) Please email your papers to ProfessorBellamy@gmail.com by 5pm on Monday, April 4, 2016. Late submissions will not be accepted without an official excuse. Failure to follow these instructions will result in grade penalty.
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DELIMMA:
You have worked very hard throughout your undergraduate career and have earned a 4.0 GPA. With your grades, extracurricular activities and social connections you are a shoe-in to be admitted to Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania. The only thing necessary to secure your admission is to perform exceptionally well on the GMAT. After studying for the exam for several months you go to sleep the night before the exam to be sure you are well rested. At 3:30 am you are awakened by a phone call from your roommate of three years who has woken up alone in their car on the highway after a night of partying. Your roommate is still highly inebriated and unable to drive home. Your roommate gives you an address to pick them up at a location that is a 90 minute drive away. If you don’t agree to pick them up your roommate says they will try to drive home on their own. What is the most moral thing to do?
1- Which of the Aristotelian virtues would support your choice to continue to rest in preparation for the GMAT? Which of the Aristotelian virtues would support your choice to pick up your inebriated roommate?
2- Use Kant’s Categorical Imperative to determine if there is a universalizable decision to be made in this ethical dilemma. Please express you answer in essay form. No charts or figures.
3- Use the Utilitarian Theory to discuss what choice might bring the greatest amount of pleasure over the least amount of pain.
4- Regarding this ethical dilemma, by what social contracts are you bound to be well-rested to take the GMAT. By what social contracts are you bound to pick up your inebriated roommate.
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