Everyday we make decisions, therefore, if you are reading this, that means you’ve made a decision to continue pursuing your MBA, which means, you probably have already read chapter 5

This week’s Discussion is based on these 6 topics:

1. Act of Kindness
Everyday we make decisions, therefore, if you are reading this, that means you’ve made a decision to continue pursuing your MBA, which means, you probably have already read chapter 5. If so, did you happen to ask yourself, why am I taking this course? Why am I doing an MBA? If your answers are, I am doing this course because it’s a requirement for my MBA and I’m doing my MBA because I need a promotion at work. I need a promotion because I need more money. If that’s the case Kant would say, your doing something for the sake of something, for the sake of something… Nevertheless, I said that to say this, just like you made a decision to do your MBA, a cashier at Wal-Mart on February 18, 2017 made a decision to help a customer. After reading the story by CLICKING HERE, discuss from:
a. Kant’s perspective on the motives and moral worth of her action
b. Support your answer with Kant’s Supreme Principle of Morality
c. Finally, give your personal opinion
Reference:

2. Is it right to follow your gut?
One contrast presented in the chapter was the contrast of duty versus inclination. Kant argues that in order to do something that is truly morally sound, we must do it based on duty, meaning for the sole purpose of doing the right thing. Contrastingly, to act on inclination would be to act based on what we feel compelled to do or perhaps, doing what we feel we should be doing.

How does the idea of a gut instinct play into this? Meaning, something that we intuitively know is right or true. Would Kant approve of acting based on instinct?
http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/kant1785.pdf
https://www.oxbridgenotes.co.uk/revision_notes/philosophy-university-of-oxford-ethics/samples/summary-kants-groundwork-of-the-metaphysics-of-morals
http://www.unc.edu/~gsmunc/phil22/Kantsum.pdf

3. 3. Business decisions and healthcare providers

Mentioned below is an example on “Business decisions taken by health care providers”
A hypothetical hospital is considering closing a service line that is having trouble meeting budgeted revenues due to low volumes and difficulty recruiting needed physicians. After reviewing all the financial data and market information, hospital executives find themselves at odds over whether to shut down the service line. The CEO suggests they take a step back and look at the situation from an ethical perspective.
The philosopher Immanuel Kant developed a rational approach to ethical decision making that can help guide healthcare leaders as they find themselves struggling to respond in a changing marketplace.
But how exactly might the executives do that?
What specific steps might they follow?
Like many healthcare business decisions, the options are not black or white, but grey
Based on Immanuel Kant’s theory of rational approach to ethical decision making, what do you think is the solution for above questions?
Website:
http://www.hfma.org/Leadership/E-Bulletins/2015/July/How_Would_Kant_Approach_This__A_Model_for_Ethical_Healthcare_Business_Decisions/

4. Treat persons as ends
Kant’s categorical imperative II is titled “Treat persons as ends”. In it Kant states, “man, and in general every rational being, exists as an end in himself, not merely as a means for an arbitrary use by this or that will.” Sandel explains that Kant believed this to be the fundamental difference between persons and things.

Prison inmates are often tasked with highway clean-up programs during their incarceration. Clean initiatives are pushed out by local and state governments with limited budgets and the “free” labor helps to fill the gap.

Is this an acceptable use of persons as means rather than ends?

Can you provide another example that would justify the use of persons as means?

5. Residential Evictions
Eviction within the United States is becoming a more pressing problem as rents increase, wage increases slow, and more people are looking for shelter. If a renter or mortgage payee does not have the ability to pay their end of the signed contract, does the owner/bank have a right to evict the payee from the home? We can look at the supreme principle of morality created by Kant to decide if this is the correct action to take.
1. Is morality (duty vs inclination) on the side of the payee or the owner? Why?
2. What is the reasoning behind eviction vs. the reasoning behind allowing extended boarding during hard times? Frame your response around categorical vs. hypothetical imperatives using categorical imperatives 1 & 2, as seen fit.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/troymcmullen/2016/12/12/why-more-americans-are-facing-eviction/#2c744d2e1617

New Jersey eviction process

Not directly related, but something to get the brain churning: http://blog.talkingphilosophy.com/?p=406

6. Mental Illness and justice system

We have heard many stories about murder or inmates were released from prison because their mental illness or used mental illness as a defense in a criminal prosecution. According to Immanuel Kent, we need to be responsible for our own action and the consequence. We also need to treat everyone with respect, as an end in itself. From moral and justice perceptive, does mental illness patients really have the right to avoid facing jail time or punishment because of their illness? Can the illness be fake to avoid the punishment or trial as per the article?

Incarceration and Mental Health

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/the-gaping-hole-in-the-prison-early-release-program-mental-health-care/433464/

Essay Details: Staying on the 6-discussion topic above and the Sandel reading (Text below) write A one-page, double-spaced, 12pt. TNR, reflection on the week’s chapter. Please provide an extremely succinct summary of the analytical method described by Sandel. Recreate the analysis without criticizing it –

Textbook for Sandel (Justice): Chapter 5
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Do not use any external reference stay with the ones provided her and most important you must use the textbook (Sandel)

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