Essays on Rightfulness

Legal ethics or law is used to refer to the level of honesty in a professional level set up by lawmakers who do not depict the extent of rightness or wrongness of certainlaws (Allan, 2012). Moral laws are determined by the conscience of a person and how a person is ruled by his/her morals. Morality and legality of law relate in several ways. According to Allan, there are many discrepancies in what should be termed as legally correct according to law and those that determine moral uprightness (2012). Morality and law are totally unrelated in terms of the laws ...

Utilitarianism is a theory that describes the expected behavior or conduct of an individual for the achievement of the best outcome possible. It entails distinguishing an action as right or wrong depending on whether it results in happiness or sadness respectively. The theory was developed by English philosopher Jeremy Bentham and his economist counterpart John Stuart Mill around the 18th and the 19th century. The theory, in contrast to ethical theories which determine the rightfulness or wrongfulness of without considering its outcome, states that an ill-motivated action can breed a fair result. Mill believes that an act should only ...

Deontology and consequentialism are dominant theories that are related to the contemporary normative ethics. Consequentialism is a theory in which all the actions that can be termed as right yield desired outcomes (Betzler 13). On the other hand, deontology, which is a theory that was developed by Kant, identifies rightness through the features of acts as opposed to the outcomes. For instance, in case consequentialism needs to sacrifice an innocent person for the greater benefit, deontology can end up forbidding this move on the basis that it violates the rights of innocent persons, or rather lead to the violation of various ...