Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center Case Study

Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center is a 190 bed hospital located in the heart of Saint Louis, Missouri. The non for profit organization, named after Archbishop John Cardinal Glennon opened in the summer of 1956. The patients that seek medical attention from this hospital are primarily from Missouri and Illinois, but it is not uncommon for families who seek a very specific kind of treatment to travel from even farther away. The hospital also has a program that will fly children in from around the world so they can get the life-saving surgery or treatment that they need. The hospital is religiously affiliated and the mission statement reads: “Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of God. In addition

Good will is the only thing that is always good. Chapter one of Ground for the Metaphysic of Morals explains that mental talents and gifts of fortune can be either good or bad. Intelligence, courage, health, and well-being might seem like great things, but they can be harmful if a person’s character isn’t in the right place. A good will is always going to be good even if it doesn’t bring a positive end results. Deontology looks at the means as opposed to then end. Kant says that our ability to reason should allow us to make a choice based on the good will of the means and not the end purpose. Deontological theory is also centered on duty. Kant provides three proposition of morality that pertain to duty. The first one says “For an action to have genuine moral worth it must be done from duty (Kant 9)”. This proposition basically says that actions that are taken out of recognition that it is our duty to do them are morally justifiable. Many people also have an ulterior motive that lead them to dutiful acts. The reading gave the example of a grocer offering everyone the same low price, not only because it was the right thing to do, but also because it make his store competitive or more desirable than others. The second proposition says that “an action that is done from duty doesn’t get its moral value from the purpose that’s to be achieved through it from the maxim that it involves, giving the reason why the person acts thus (Kant 9).” This goes hand in hand with the first proposition. It says that the end result does not make something morally just. It’s the good will, or duty that gives something moral value. The third proposition says that “to have a duty is to be required to act in a certain way out of respect for law (Kant 10).” Humans are rational beings that should be able to make decisions and act in a way that complies with