Tasks (All four questions are compulsory and carry the same weight)
1. Choose the cause that you would like to support and to which you wish to donate (this can be any charity or organization that advances your valued cause). Provide a 500-word account highlighting the motivation for your choice (25%).
2. Are corporate scandals the ‘new normal’? A corporate scandal can occur any time there is evidence of unethical behaviour or negligence that impacts a company’s reputation. Write a 500 -word blog entry covering one of the scandals that you think is topical. (25%)
3. A moral conflict is a situation in which a person has two moral obligations, which cannot be met both at once. Behind these obligations lie conflicting values. A moral dilemma is an irresolvable moral conflict, i.e. no fully satisfactory resolution is possible since all possible options for action leave behind some moral objections. Choose your own example of a moral dilemma, and in 500 words, explain why this dilemma is difficult to solve (25%).
4. In his discussion of pluralistic thinking (thinking that incorporates multiple views of the world), Amartya Sen suggests that the power of individual identity (our vision of ourselves, our understanding of our heritage, culture, history, etc.) could be challenged by the power of other competing identities. In our normal life we see ourselves as members of a variety of groups, such as a person’s citizenship, profession, religion, gender, class, politics, taste in music, sports, etc. Each of these groups gives us part of our identity. Please list 5 categories of identity with which you closely associate. Provide a 500-word account highlighting how these 5 categories might influence your job- related decisions (25%)
reading list：
Blackburn, S. (2001) Ethics: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press.
Hendry, J. (2004) Between Enterprise and Ethics, Oxford University Press.
Sandel, M. (2012). What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets. Farrar Straus & GirouxSandel, M. (2012). What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets. Farrar Straus & Giroux
Sandel, M. (2009) Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? Penguin Books (chapter 6, 141- 166)
Sen, A (2006) Identity and Violence. Penguin Books
Sandel, M. (2020) The Tyranny of Merit: What’s become of the Common Good. Penguin BooksSandel, M. (2009) Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? Penguin Books (chapter 6, 141- 166)
Beiharz, P (ed) (2000) The Bauman Reader. London: Blackwell Publishers.2006
Arendt. H. (2006) Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. Penguin Books, 230 – 280.Beiharz, P (ed) (2000) The Bauman Reader. London: Blackwell Publishers.2006
Arendt. H. (2006) Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. Penguin Books, 230 – 280.