1. Introduction 2. Evaluation of ethical performance 3. Evaluation of financial issue – profitability 4. Recommendation References Executive summary For the purpose‚ this report is for a client who has interested in Telstra and wants to have an ethical investment. And this report will do the evaluation of ethical performance and financial performance (profitability). Telstra as the largest media company do not storing safety customers’ privacy and let privacy breach
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How will I be remembered? This a subject that I’ve thought about a lot during my life. How do I want to be remembered? In my youth I wanted to be remembered as a hero of historic proportions‚ a man who people looked up to as I had looked up to my childhood heroes. A man whose strenth and deeds of daring would live forever. Later‚ in my teens‚ I realized that being considered heroic probably wasn’t everything it was made out to be. I had started to realize that many of my childhood heroes had feet
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Adam Smith‚ Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were three of the most profound economic philosophers in history. They lived in the midst of a society that was incredibly capitalistic. In 1776 Scotland‚ Adam Smith published the book‚ The Wealth of Nations. It was his take on how the capitalist society was something that could flourish over time if it were to operate in a highly functioning manner. Merely 72 years later in 1848‚ Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels‚ both of German decent‚ published a pamphlet
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and how far can we go to strive for freedom. These important questions have been answered and studied by two of the greatest English philosophers‚ John Locke and John Stuart Mill. Locke and Mill men will attempt to uncover the mysteries of Liberty and Freedom and unveil the importance of being free. This essay will look at John Locke’s principle works” Second Treatise of government” and John Stuart Mills. “ On Liberty and Other Essays”. This essay will attempt to compare and contrast Lockes ideology
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Philosophy Essay (Descartes vs. Locke) Socrates once said‚ “As for me‚ all I know is that I know nothing.” Several philosophers contradicted Socrates’ outlook and believed that true knowledge was in fact attainable. This epistemological view however had several stances to it‚ as philosophers held different beliefs in regards to the derivation of true knowledge. Rationalists believed that the mind was the source of true knowledge‚ while in Empiricism‚ true knowledge derived from the senses. Rene
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Introduction Karl Marx was born in a middle-class Jewish family of Germany‚ which converted to Christianity when he was young. Marx was an exponent of scientific socialism that advocated reformation of capitalism so that the social order could change from the exploitative capitalist system. Marx considered capitalism both a political and economic system. His main ideas were the conflict theory and the study of political economy. Karl Marx believed that capitalism was doomed to collapse due to its
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of humans to the resources God gave them.” (p.201) Locke sees the world as god’s creation. Yet in his conception‚ god expects man to work to survive. In addition‚ he has given to the world to humanity collectively. Human beings must guard against waste. Locke identifies two kinds of waste. He sees the rotting and degradation of matter as one kind of waste. He saw the second kind of waste when man did not use land he
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Looking how each of these philosophers looked at a social contract‚ both Hobbes and Locke had different views on a social contract then we believe it to be. Social contract is how people decide to have a government and talks about how much authority can the government have over the people. Some similarities are to prevent violence against fellow citizens. For Tomas Hobbes‚ this means curbing the natural state of chaos. For John Locke‚ this means preventing any and all violations of individual rights
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Adam Smith Lectures - 1 - Frederick Weil February 1999 Adam Smith - Lecture 1 The Character of Market Society Smith makes a number of claims about the “natural” state of things: “human nature‚” “natural” prices or rates of wages‚ rent‚ and profit‚ “natural” character of the market and market society. In this lecture‚ I explore the picture of market society he gives‚ mainly in Book I of the Wealth of Nations. In this and the following lectures‚ we will see how Smith contradicts most of his basic
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The Influence of John Locke John Locke was someone more than just an ordinary man. He was the son of a country attorney and born on August 29‚ 1632. He grew up during the civil war and later entered the Church of Christ‚ Oxford‚ where he remained as a student and teacher for many years. (Rivitch 23) With a wide variety of political and religious views‚ he expressed most of his personnel views on education and social and political philosophies. Once he noted the five
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