social responsibility (CSR) is an increasingly important issue for all businesses around the world. CSR covers economic‚ legal‚ ethical‚ and philanthropic responsibilities of firms. Explain the factors that may motivate an MNE to adopt CSR in its international business strategy and operations. How might the country context influence the types of CSR initiatives undertaken? Support your answer with real world examples or cases. While corporate social responsibility (CSR) has existed for a long time
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Once one knows the categorical imperative and understands it‚ they can effectively take any moral dilemma‚ run it through the mill‚ and get a morally correct answer. With this test‚ every person should get the same answer‚ which is what makes it universal law. Kant provides three different versions of the categorical imperative‚ not to give different answers‚ but to emphasize different moral points. A person should be able to take
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Dangers of The Technical Imperative In Comparative Religious Ethics‚ Darrell Fasching‚ Dell Dechant‚ and David M. Lantigua propose the innate danger of the technical imperative to the human race. In recent history‚ the most significant example of the “technical imperative” has been evident in the construction and use of the atomic bomb. According to the authors of Comparative Religious Ethics‚ the technical imperative is the idea that “if it can be done it must be done” (Fasching 46). The use
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came up with a set of imperatives (commands or advice) for one to follow. His imperatives consist of Hypothetical and Categorical. Hypothetical imperatives consist of problematic imperatives and assertoric imperatives‚ which hypothetical imperatives say that an action is only good for some purpose. An example of a Categorical Imperative is apodeictic. Categorical imperative is a single moral command that has no other purpose or without any other end. A problematic imperative tells you how to achieve
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Assessment 2 - 602790 Step 1: Evaluate the act using Kant’s categorical imperative (We’ve done the first two stages for you). 1. What is the difference between a. and a. "van Dijk will take ZAR 1.9 billion (A) when he’s done a year’s work (C) in order to get really‚ really rich (E)." 2. What is the difference between a’smart’ and a’smart’? "All people (7.6 billion of them) will take ZAR 1.9 billion when they’ve done a year’s work in order to get really‚ really rich." 3. What is the difference
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Kant’s first imperative deals with universality and the Law of Nature. Kant states that for a moral thought to be true it must not be tied to any external conditions‚ physical or moral and should be applied to anyone (universalizability principle). Continuing‚ he states that since the laws of nature are defined to be universal‚ we can also express the categorical imperative as if our will of our rational actions would be a universal law of nature. Kant’s second imperative deals with free will and
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According to the Golden Rule (GR)‚ you should do unto others as you would want them to do unto you. The first forumulation of the Categorical Imperative (CI)‚ formulated by the German Philosopher Immanuel Kant‚ states one should act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law without contradiction. These two rules are not the same thing as they are based on entirely different philosophical foundations. The motivation for the GR is that
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Western nations should not impose their standards on developing countries If we think about what is the West‚ what answers do we get? The West is the sunset‚ all that were born in the East is died in the West‚ the West is the darkness and the East is the light. And the paradox is that despite of all for historical reasons humanity used to think in terms of the West‚ takes cue from the West. What are the causes of Western predominance‚ what allows the West to dictate one’s terms to the rest of
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central idea behind the philosophy of Immanuel Kant‚ a highly influential 18th-century thinker. One of his most famous ideas is the categorical imperative‚ a principle that acts as a kind of universal moral test. Simply put‚ the categorical imperative asks us to consider: would it be okay if everyone acted this way? The core principle of the categorical imperative‚ the universal law formula‚ demands that one act only according to maxims that could be willed as universal laws. However‚ this principle encounters
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Essay Title: Effect of Global Economy on Water Quality and Availability in the Developing Countries ESSAY STRUCTURE PLANNING INTRODUCTION Background: Importance of water‚ overexploitation – reason for degradation. Thesis: Increasing industrial activities‚ owing to expanding global economy‚ are responsible for water resource degradation. Outline: Effect of water resource degradation on human life‚ exploring possible solutions PARAGRAPH 1 TS: Climate change is one of the prime causes of
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