The Ethics of Shrewdness "I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves." Matthew 10:16 Michael C. R. McLoughlin‚ August‚ 1997 Abstract The marketplace is a a difficult and dangerous environment for the Christian. It can be a place of compromise or a place of persecution. It is a place where Christians must
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function as a human being. Persuasive advertising prefers that you don’t understand your motivation‚ gives you one to buy sth‚ persuasive in an implicit manner. a.i. Some advertisers want to use subliminal advertising‚ but not too concern abt that. Why deal with extremes‚ deal with the heart of the matter -> puffery a.ii. Attacking advertising cos it is dehumanising‚ undermines our human abilities and takes advantage of our human abilities b. Arrington – puffery‚ just advertising in general (not
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References: Delacampagne‚ C.‚ (2001)‚ A History of Philosophy in the 20th Century‚ Johns Hopkins University Press. MacIntyre‚ A. (2006)‚ A Short History Of Ethics‚ Routledge. Roochnick‚ D. (2004)‚ Retrieving the Ancients: An Introduction To Greek Philosophy. Wiley. Saunders‚ J. (1997)‚ Greek and Roman Philosophy After Aristotle‚ Free Press. Scruton‚ R. (2001)‚ A Short History of Modern Philosophy‚ Routledge
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Wittgenstein’s Approach to Ethics Before attempting to articulate Wittgenstein’s views on ethics I believe we must first examine what he meant when he said ethics was a matter of which we could not sensibly speak. “Ethics‚ if it is anything‚ is supernatural and our words will only express facts” (A Lecture on Ethics 1965). If we couple that statement with “Only the supernatural can express the Supernatural” (Wittgenstein 1998‚ 3e). How then are we to speak of Wittgenstein’s ethics? Wittgenstein believes
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confidentiality and consent over personal information (Freegard‚ 2006). So‚ ethically speaking‚ why does it matter that patients give their consent to treatment? That their privacy is respected? And that nurses respect patient confidentiality? It is partly a matter of ‘treating others how you would like to be treated’ and partly what is required of nurses by law. By the end of this essay I intend to have shown you why all these issues ‘matter’ and how the principle of autonomy relates to‚ and shapes these
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The potential benefits of CSR relative to the costs for business & stakeholders. CSR is the extent to which an organization accepts its obligations to society over and above legal requirements. Firms can benefit from CSR. It will help them gain marketing advantage. This could be firms USP and they could add profit margins. Consumers may be prepared to premium price‚ if the CSR product suits them. For example‚ Costa coffee used Fairtrade and its premium customers were prepared to pay high price
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1. List the three fundamental security properties and for each give an example of a failure. CIA is a commonly used standard for information systems security‚ concentrating on the 3 core goals of confidentiality‚ integrity and availability of information in the system. When every time IT team installs a software or a sever‚ they never forget to analyse the data transport methods‚ data base‚ how they provide access for users according to the CIA standards. Those three fundamental security properties
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1) You intend to open a trendy restaurant in Toronto’s posh‚ Yorkville district. List ten (10) specific procedures‚ guidelines or activities that you can engage in at the restaurant‚ in order to attempt to be either environmentally-friendly or to build a sustainable business. The suggestions should directly relate to the restaurant’s operations‚ its procurement policy or its marketing plans ANS: So finally I have decided to follow my dreams and start a restaurant‚ I need to know what food restaurant
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Biology 301 12/3/2012 The Effects of Relative Fitness of Drosophila Melanogaster on Evolution Abstract This experiment was conducted to study the relative fitness of two phenotypes of the Drosophila melanogaster and how fitness can affect evolution in the population. The phenotypes were placed in two different environments‚ one in which contained a predator and another with no predator. Results of the experiment would show how the fitness of each phenotype is affected by providing a mechanism
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Examine the key ideas of Situation Ethics (21 marks) Situation ethics is the idea that people should base moral decisions on what is the most loving thing to do. It emerged as an alternative approach to Christian ethics in the 1960s‚ although its Christian ethos is vital for understanding the theory. It is most commonly associated with Joseph Fletcher and Robinson and it surfaced at a time when society and the Church were facing drastic and permanent change. Women occupied an increasingly prominent
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