Morality and Business (PHIL 321)
Home Page -- Spring 2005
This page was last updated April 28, 2005.
Instructor: Dr. Jan Garrett
Contents
A. Basic Materials
B. Study Questions for Velasquez Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases
C. Reviews for Examinations
D. Written Assignments (Second Major Paper and Related Assignments, rev. for 2005)
E. Key Concepts
F. Ethical Theories
G. Lakoff-Related Materials (New in 2005; updated 3-07)
H. Specific Issues and Controversies (Boisjoly link added 1-31-05)
I. Articles of Special Interest
J. Website on Ethics and Globalization1. Syllabus (Enrolled students should get the syllabus as a handout.)
2. Resistance and Rationalizations
3. Partial Bibliography for Business Ethics
4. Metaphor, Morality, and Politics by George Lakoff (See also Section G.)
5. Prof. Joe Glaser's Webpage on Plagiarism
6. Dr. Garrett's Ethics Links Page. This large website, organized by topic, consists almost entirely of links to websites where you may find information and arguments related to a wide variety of ethical topics and contemporary debated issues.
7. Issues in Ethics from Santa Clara University (online version). A large collection of articles, originally published from 1987 through the present, written for a general audience. (link added 3-26-02)
8. Responsible Shopper. Check out the ethical track record of various corporations! (new link 5-1-02)
B. Study Questions for Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases
The study questions below are keyed to the 2002 (fifth) edition unless otherwise noted.
1. Questions for Velasquez Chapter 2 (rev. 3-15-05)
2. Questions for Velasquez Chapter 4: Ethics and Markets (rev. 4-2-02)
3. Questions for Velasquez Chapter 5 (rev. 4-9-02)
4. Questions for Velasquez Chapter 6 (rev. 2-7-02)
1. Review for Midterm (Spring 2005) (rev. 2-24-05) C. Reviews for Examinations
****The next item is relevant to the Final Exam and preparation for the Final Exam***
2. General Education Assessment of PHIL 321 (see esp. part IV) (new 3-16-05)3a. Last year's study guide (removed)
3b. Gen Ed Assessment Essay Possibilities for Final Exam (new: 4-13-05)
3c. Study Guide for Final Exam (April 27, 2005)
D. Written Assignments
1. Short Case Assignment (revised: January 14, 2005)
2. Paper Assignment: Case Study (draft version for Spring 2005 course)
3. Cases from Older Editions of Velasquez Textbook The link given on p. xv of the textbook for the cases retired from the current edition is incorrect.
4. Second Major Paper and Related Assignments (now revised for 2005 course)
E. Key Concepts
4. The Concept of Rights (new 2-5-03)
5. Justice: A Word With Many Meanings (rev. added 2-21-05)
6. Persons and Morally Considerable Beings (link added 4-30-02)
7. Punishment
8. Reparation, Retribution, and Revenge
9. Needs, Wants, Interests, Motives (new: 2-11-04)
10. Egoism, Relativism, and Other Theoretical Distractions (new: 4-28-05)
1. A (Relatively) Simple Ethical Theory Inspired by W. D. Ross
2. John Rawls
a. John Rawls on Justice (reflects Rawls' early work, from the 1970's)
b. Rawls' Mature Philosophy of Social Justice (2-27-03)
c. Study Questions on John Rawls (relates to item 2b, just above) (2-5-02)
d. John Rawls on Concrete Moral Principles (rev. March 2005)
How Rawls Could Support the Contract Theory (rev. March 2005)
How Rawls Could Support the Due Care Theory (rev. March 2005)
How Rawls Could Support a Right to Privacy (rev. March 2005)e. Employee Rights: Rawlsian Perspectives
3. Autonomy-Centered Liberalism (basic level, new link 2-27-03)
4. Libertarianism
a. Libertarianism: A Brief Summary (basic level)
b. The Limits of Libertarianism (intermediate level)
c. Autonomy Liberalism and Libertarianism Compared (new chart: 3-2003)
5. Martha Nussbaum on Capabilities and Human Rights (2-20-02)
6. Immanuel Kant's Categorical Imperative
7. Utilitarianism: Some Basic Observations
8. Care Theory
1. Metaphor, Morality, and Politics by George Lakoff G. Lakoff-Related Material
2. Metaphorical Basis of Folk Morality (lecture notes; available 1-24)
3. SFM/NPM Comparisons / Moral Systems and Public Policies
4. Metaphorical Bases of Ethical Theories (notes by Dr. Garrett, 3-7-05)
5. Further reading about or by G. Lakoff (Optional)
H. Specific Issues and Controversies
1. Bribery (new on website 3-30-05)
2. Breakdown of Sexual Harassment Guidelines
3. Models of the Organization (new on website 4-29-03)
4. Employee Rights (new 3-28-02)
5. Whistleblowing (Lecture Notes) (new on website 4-11-02)
6. Boisjoly and the Space Shuttle Disaster (NEW link, added 1-31-05)
7. Discrimination and Affirmative Action
For more material see my Ethics Course website. Click on "Contemporary Issues."
1. Ten Worst Corporations of 2004 (New link: 1-31-05) I. Articles of Special Interest
2. Sweatshop Abuses in Dell, HP, IBM Computer Suppliers (New Report 1-04)
3. Tom Stites, "How Corporations Became Persons" (link new: 2-3-04)
4. Complexities of the 'Brake Scandal Case' (detailed, interesting discussion)
5. Michael Perelman, "The Political Economy of Intellectual Property" (January 2003)
6. Paul Krugman, "For Richer for Poorer" (originally in N. Y. Times, 10-20-02)
7. Felix Rohatyn, "The Betrayal of Popular Capitalism" (N.Y.Review of Books, Feb. 2002)
8. What Really Went Wrong at Enron? (Business Ethicists at Santa Clara University Discuss -- March 2, 2002)
9. Several Excerpts from The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy by Marjorie Kelly, Editor of Business Ethics magazine (book published in October 2001).
10. Liza Featherstone and Doug Henwood, "Clothes Encounters: Economists and Students Clash Over Sweatshops," in Lingua Franca, March 2001
NEW LINK: Critics of Corporate Globalism (site maintained by Dr. Garrett) J. Websites on Ethics and Globalization