THEO 2252 Weekly Assignment 1) Utilitarian reasoning. Read the Case Exporting Pollution at the end of Chapter 3 in Boatright. Analyze this as a utilitarian using the following questions. Use the chart below. 1. What are the possible actions? (Exporting, not exporting, anything else?) 2. Who is affected? (In the first column fill in the option with all the groups of people affected, like the foreign residents, company shareholders, local employees, governments) 3. What are the positive and negative effects? Mark effects as shown below Great positive effect ++ Some positive effect + Negligible effect 0 Some negative effect Great negative effects - - 4. What action would you recommend? 2) Fairness You, the CEO, discover that the supplier you have been using for your APPLEBABY juice has been supplying sugar water, not apple juice. You told your superiors that your division would make $7m in profit this year. If you dump the fake juice and buy real juice it will cost you $750K hitting your bottom line. You decide to dump the fake juice at half price in overseas markets where the FDA cant reach you. By the time the FDA did intervene, you had offloaded all but 20,000 cases of the fake juice. Evaluate this CEOs action using Kants Categorical Imperative. Who is affected Option 1 Option 2 Option 3 THEO 2252 Weekly Assignment 3) Virtue Ethics a) Fill in the chart by putting the following virtues under one of the four cardinal virtues.: Caution, Sociability, Empathy, Enthusiasm, Resourcefulness, Impartiality, Confidence, Focus, Fairness b) Give an example of when do you need the virtue of courage in business. 4) Home Depot In the wake of Hurricane Andrew in 1992, individual price-gougers were selling building materials at wildly inflated prices, but not Home Depot. Following the hurricane, the store continued to sell plywood at pre-hurricane prices. Even when plywood wholesale prices increased by 28 percent, Home Depot announced that it would sell plywood, roofing materials, and plastic sheeting at cost and take no profit. Home Depot negotiated with its suppliers to reduce prices to pre-hurricane levels in order to enable the store to maintain its retail prices. a) Justify Home Depots decision on utilitarian principles ie greatest good for greatest number. b) Justify Home Depots decision on rights morality inherent rights that must be respected. c) Justify Home Depots decision on virtue ethics d) Justify Home Depots decision on Kantian ethics. 5) Whistleblowing Is the FaceBook whistleblower a true whistleblower according to Boatrights definition? Why or why not. You should find evidence for your answer in materials available from solid sources (not Wikipedia). Cite your sources. Prudence Temperance Justice Courage

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