Posted: April 13th, 2015

Unit VII Assessment

Unit VII Assessment

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Written Responses:

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Assessment Unit VII

Question 1

In “Intellectual Property and the Information Age,” Richard T. De George begins by examining the case of Napster and the practice of sharing digital music over the Internet.  He concludes by arguing that determining whether an action with regard to copyright protection is moral or immoral will depend on the balancing of competing conceptions and justifications for copyright protection.  Using the positions that De George lays out, examine the case with which De George begins.  Do you believe that this activity is morally justified or immoral?  Why?
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Question 2

In “Internet Content Providers and Complicity in Human Rights Abuse,” Jeffery D. Smith argues that while ICPs may be complicit in human rights abuse, they may strive to minimize their complicity.  Do you believe that the strategies he imagines are sufficient to absolve ICPs of any moral wrongdoing that arises from their complicity in these abuses?  Why, or why not?  If not, what do you believe that ICPs should do?
Answer
Question 3

Explain Cooley’s argument in “Genetically Modified Organisms and Business Duties.”  What would Cooley say about the activities of Monsanto and related in the case study “Monsanto’s Round-Up Ready Wheat”? In general, do you agree or disagree with Cooley?  Why, or why not?
Answer
Question 4

In “Privacy,” Deborah G. Johnson presents arguments designed to show that the greater capacity of computers to gather and store information has the capacity to both benefit and harm the social good.  In what ways do these enhanced capacities have the potential to benefit and harm the social good?  Which do you find stronger?  Is there a way to embrace the benefits of computers without risking the harms to the social good she envisions?
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Course Textbook
Beauchamp, T. L., Bowie, N. E., & Arnold, D. G. (2009). Ethical theory and business (8th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
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Ford’s novel No More Parades (the second novel)

answer these questions about Ford’s novel No More Parade (the second novel). the questions are:Throughout No More Parades there seems to be an abundance of sentences or thoughts left unfinished by the characters. The frequent ellipses clearly function in many different ways, and not only to highlight the idea that the upper-class English don’t usually articulate things directly. Why would Ford be interested in the unfinished and the implied in his work? Does it have something to do with WWI or something more? Consider that the ellipses are common to all charactersTowards the end of the novel General Campion responds to Tietjens’ comment that “it’s difficult to make [himself] plain” by saying “Neither of us do. What is language for? What the hall is language for? We go round and round. I suppose I’m an old fool who cannot understand your modern ways… But you’re not modern. I’ll do you that justice” (529). Clearly Ford is interested in creating a conversation about the nature of modernity and language. That considered, what do you think about the characterizing of language as something that modern men possess which the General and Tietjens do not? Do you think this is correct? How is Ford engaging in a larger discussion about the differences between the modern and the pre-modern (18th and 17th century as the novel describes it)? PLEASE start the paper with the answers you do not need to write any introduction about the book or the writer.