John Stuart Mill Ethical Dilemma
The complex ethical dilemma to be addressed using the three tests for an ethical decision, ethical theories, and the six step process is as follow: your company is governing a public tender for a project to create a new water treatment system. The ethical uncertainty arises when your inlaws company is unaware of the public tender which closes in two days, which would be essential if they hope to be chosen to provide the technologies to implement the new system. The moral dilemma in this case is deciding whether or not to help out family in a situation where you are part of the deciding factor. I believe that you are well within ethical grounds to inform your family's company of the public tend as it is public information. On the contrary, to an
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Kant's Formalism states that it is an individual's duty to behave ethically, and rather have good intensions over results. In this case, you are letting the result of a possible bad relationship with your in-laws interfere with your good intensions. Therefore, this violates Kant's theory of having good intensions being more important than the outcome. In regards to Mill's Utilitarianism, the greatest amount of good would have been keeping the tender fair and not making exceptions for the benefit of personal relationships. This would keep the public tender fair but at the cost of possibly losing the best solution to the new water treatment system, and creating tension in your family. When you look at Aristotle's Virtue ethics which states that an act is good if it has reason. The primary act is to find the best way to implement a new water treatment system, and if you act in this way because you believe that you in-laws company has the best solution you are acting without reason as you are not aware of what other candidates have to offer. Thus, by Aristotle's Virtue theory this would be an unethical
Kant's Formalism states that it is an individual's duty to behave ethically, and rather have good intensions over results. In this case, you are letting the result of a possible bad relationship with your in-laws interfere with your good intensions. Therefore, this violates Kant's theory of having good intensions being more important than the outcome. In regards to Mill's Utilitarianism, the greatest amount of good would have been keeping the tender fair and not making exceptions for the benefit of personal relationships. This would keep the public tender fair but at the cost of possibly losing the best solution to the new water treatment system, and creating tension in your family. When you look at Aristotle's Virtue ethics which states that an act is good if it has reason. The primary act is to find the best way to implement a new water treatment system, and if you act in this way because you believe that you in-laws company has the best solution you are acting without reason as you are not aware of what other candidates have to offer. Thus, by Aristotle's Virtue theory this would be an unethical