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Essay Instructions: Ethical and Moral Issues in Business

Write a 500- to 700-word paper in which you address the following:

? What are the differences between ethical issues and moral issues?
? What are the differences between personal ethics and business ethics?
? Provide examples of common ethical problems in business for each of the questions above.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Essay Instructions: I would like to request writer nklenske for this project. The focus of this work will be: "What are the moral issues raised by economic justice and financial responsibility?" Please site these seven sources: James Fowler's Stages of Faith (focus on the discussion of Kohlberg, especially pp. 32-34, 41-86[note the developmental theories], 117-199, and 269-303, and his notion of Linear Justice);James T. Bretzke's A Morally Complex World: Engaging Contemporary Moral Theology;Kenneth Melchin's Living with Other People;Charles curran's The Catholic Moral Tradition Today;website of the Center for Economic and Social Justice @ http://www.cesj.org/thirdway/economicjustice-defined.htm (speak to the biased norms-both legalized and institutional-and structural evil which becomes a norm);
Charles Curran's The Catholic Church, Morality and Politics;a pamphlet @ http;//www.networklobby.org/resources/index.htn. The project, itself, will focus on a brief description(and data, if possible) about the scope and impact of the question;a specific moral methodology(thinking about Curran here) for approaching a solution, including a stance, a moral model, and the sources of authority one uses and how they relate to one another or what weight is given to each;a discussion about the morally appropriate solution from two sources of authority-one church[Baptist doctrine-Rev Dr Kirbyjohn Caldwell]and one theologian[Charles Curran];an analysis of the norms, prinicples or guidelines that apply to the situation, from Scripture[King James version of the Bible], tradition[explain that the Baptist tradition, to which this requester belongs has no formal unified stance], natural law or experience;an analysis about the morally appropriate outcome(which is an application of the stance, model and moral guidelines);a discussion of the role of moral agency, conscience and freedom, where appropriate;a final statement about the resolution of the question.

Essay Instructions: I've read through the paper more carefully. My main criticism would be that the paper does not have a clear thesis statement. You say that "each philosophical view is capable of supporting more than one answer, depending on the assumptions and definitions used in the analysis." This phrase "assumptions and definitions" recurs elsewhere in the paper. But you never really explain which assumptions make a difference or which assumptions you are making. Can you talk a bit more about what assumptions matter and which you think are appropriate to the decision about whether or not abortion is moral. In the conclusion, you focus mostly on deontological theories and the different presuppositions of value that would lead to different conclusions regarding abortion, but the consequentialist or utilitarian treatment is extremely brief. You say that consequences to the fetus suggest some aspect of utilitarian ethics, but it would seem to me that the larger effects on society would be the more appropriate effects to consider. For instance, is it the case that aborted fetuses tend to be those children who would have been in a disadvantaged environment and thus more likely to engage in criminal activity? Or is it possible that an aborted fetus could go on to be a great artist, musician, inventor, or scientist and thus potentially benefit society?

You talk about a case in which virtue ethics is lead to affirming the moral worth of two diametrically opposed actions. For this reason, you see virtue ethics as an unsuitable ethical theory for deciding between the pro-life and pro-choice positions. Can you develop an example to make this more clear? I suppose I can imagine a case in which two actions are diametrically opposed, but I am having a difficult time affirming the virtue of each of the actors, unless the cases are not "diametrically" opposed, but simply opposed because they involve very different circumstances. To emphasize, Aristotle speaks of virtue as being an action in accordance with a rational principle, as a person of practical wisdom would use to determine it. Now, in very different situations, a person of practical wisdom may choose opposing actions, but this does not mean that those actions are diametrically opposed. Instead, they are each the "right" course of action for the circumstances (as when Aristotle considers the sailors who through their cargo overboard during a storm).

In general, I find the information in the paper to be at a very high level. I am missing a real cohesion in the argument (a guiding theme or thesis) and I am also missing any significant contact with the readings from this course. You do not really refer to the readings explicitly. Can you draw on the material from the course in any way that can help fill out the details of the paper?

Choose a contemporary moral issue and examine the debate from th e perspective of the three moral theories we have discussed in class: Which arguments are deontological, which utilitarian, which are based on virtue?

You may attempt to provide a solution to the debate, defend one side or the other (you must take account of the opposing arguments), critique one side or the other (you must take account of the arguments in favor of that position).

Essay Instructions: Construct an essay in which you examine the moral dimensions of punishment.

Capital punishment, max-security confinement, three strikes laws, "supermax" prisons, and increased surveillance of sex-offenders all have ethical implications for the criminal justice practitioner as well as the community at large. How does morality inform criminal justice policy? Are there instances where moral issues are subordinated to expediency and politics? If so, what are the dangers inherent in this practice?