With clear, insightful critical thinking, reflect and answer the following questions:
What does your score on the Moral Imagination Scale assessment reveal about your moral imagination?
After reading your textbook did you agree with the outcome of the Moral Imagination Self-Assessment?
From the Case Study 2.2 in your text reading, how is the decision of the council to solicit bids and choosing Northern Healthy over Strong Lives an example of failed moral imagination?
What are some alternative solutions to address the concerns of the council without canceling the current contract?
How do your alternative suggestions for Case Study 2.2 align with your Moral Imagination Self-Assessment outcome?
Category: Ethics
Ethical Dilemma
SCENARIO
The son of your patient, who is acting as medical power of attorney, has asked you, as a provider with a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree, not to inform his father about his medical status, which reveals a terminal diagnosis, prognosis, and course of treatment.
- Discuss how you would resolve the situation differently from how the power of attorney is asking you to by using the codes of ethics for nurses from the American Nurses Association (ANA) and the International Council of Nurses (ICN), as well as other leadership techniques and a biblical worldview.
Hispanic Americans: Colonization, Immigration, and Ethnic Enclaves in the Sage reader
After reading Chapter 12 Hispanic Americans: Colonization, Immigration, and Ethnic Enclaves in the Sage reader, answer the questions below in light of the readings. No outside resources. Answer each prompt, plus expansion of ideas and thoughts with examples.
• 1. Are Mexican Americans a Colonized or immigrant minority group? Both? Neither? Based on what you read, why do you conclude that opinion?
• 2. Compare Chicanismo with Black and Red Power. How and why do these protest movements differ? Describe the key ideas, leaders, and organizations of Mexican American protest.
Assignment 2 – Discussion
After reading the article, The Future of Puerto Rico by Barbara Mantel (ch.13 Sage reader) discuss the following in 1 paragraph per question/prompt.
• 1. What did you learn about Puerto Rico’s colonial past and present?
• 2. What are the arguments made in-favor of Puerto Rican statehood (to incorporate as the 51st U.S. state.)?
• 3. What are the arguments made in opposition to Puerto Rican Statehood?
History – Minorities in America
Week 6
Books:
• California Baptist University HIS 311 History of Minorities in America Custom Electronic Edition Slim Pack – Sage Reader
• Takaki, Ronald (2008). A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. ** Writers have access to this book.
Read:
• Ch. 5 Slavery and Its Discontents (Takaki)
• Ch. 14 The African American Political Journey 1500 – 1965 (Sage Reader)
• Ch. 15 The Development of Dominant-Minority Group Relations in Pre-industrial America: The Origins of Slavery
• Ch. 16 African Americans from Segregation to Modern Racism and Institutional Discrimination (Sage Reader)
Helping children to treat each other well
Children often struggle with treating one another with kindness and respect, which often leads to allegations of bullying. Why is this a common problem and how can teachers and families help children treat each other well?
Developing a code of ethics/professional conduct
In this assignment, develop a code of ethics/professional conduct document for your venture. Include the following:
• Provide background on your venture to include name, number of employees (it is okay if it is just you), location, and industry. In addition, include information on the product sold or service provided.
• Develop at least three areas (codes) for your venture. The areas may focus on client/customer engagement, social initiatives, etc.
• For each area, explain why it was selected and the importance to you.
Virtuous Person, Virtuous Citizen
Initial Post Instructions
Each person owes a duty to himself or herself and to the world to study ethics and to engage in thoughtful debate about what is right, and what is wrong. It is this habit of thinking about and reflecting on ethics that will help you determine the right choices when faced with an ethical dilemma.
Articulate a moral dilemma wherein one has to show a specific virtue or virtues (it can be any virtue or virtues including honesty, courage, charity/generosity, compassion, etc.)
What is the moral dilemma about?
What virtue or virtues should be shown? (You are here selecting the best course of action)
Why is that virtue or those virtues to be shown?
How should the virtue or virtues be expressed, and why in that manner?
Apply Aristotle’s golden mean to the dilemma.
Tell us how the dilemma involves conflict moral duties (loyalty to community versus to self, professional versus familial duties, national or personal obligations).
The dilemma must be a situation in which a choice has to be made.
Ethics Issues In Technology
Explain how businesses can manage ethics issues in technology.
Famous, rich celebutante
Imagine that there’s a famous, rich celebutante whose Bentley is dangling precariously off the
edge of a cliff. Below, past a jagged craggy precipice, a school of hungry hammerhead sharks is
circling. The celebutante is frantically tweeting her plight to her millions of followers, promising a
large reward to whoever can rescue her. You decided to try your luck, even though you are afraid
of sharks, cannot swim, and have no search-and-rescue abilities.
A. Explain, thoroughly, the relevant aspects of Aristotle’s and Kant’s theories. In other words, what
would Aristotle and Kant think is (morally) at stake in this scenario?
B. From Aristotle’s perspective, what should you do and why? From Kant’s perspective, what
should you do and why?
C. Make an argument explaining which philosopher gives the better moral guidance and which
gives the worst. What’s something that you would change to ameliorate the “worse” theory? Be
sure to thoroughly explain your assessments here.
Legally binding will
Imagine you are Mrs. Smith’s lawyer, and you have promised to execute the terms of her will after
she dies. Years ago she had you draw up a will leaving her substantial fortune to a famine relief
fund. When she dies and you go through her papers, however, you find a more recent, legally
binding will, written and signed by Mrs. Smith herself, in which she bequeaths all her money to her
lazy niece, who (you know) will spend it on beer and Beanie Babies. No one else knows of the
later will, but by law a later will supplant an earlier one.
A. Explain, thoroughly, the relevant aspects of Kant’s and Mill’s theories. In other words, what
would Kant and Mill think is (morally) at stake in this scenario?
B. From Kant’s perspective: Should you execute the later will? Or should you secretly destroy it,
act as if it never existed, and carry out the terms of the earlier one (giving the money to famine
relief)? Why? From Mill’s perspective: Should you execute the later will? Or should you secretly
destroy it, act as if it never existed, and carry out the terms of the earlier one (giving the money
to famine relief)? Why?
C. Make an argument explaining which philosopher gives the better moral guidance and which
gives the worst. What’s something that you would change to ameliorate the “worse” theory? Be
sure to thoroughly explain your assessments here.
Relevant aspects of Aristotle’s and Mill’s theories
Consider the following scenario: A burning building, relatively structurally sound, is engulfed in
flames, with 4 small children trapped inside. There are two people who must decide how to
respond to the situation: Granny — an 80-year-old misanthropic, pyrophobic, Luddite, who saw her
mother burn to death in a fire when she was younger. She’s in relatively good health, although she
uses a cane. She has a cell phone for emergencies, but she hates it. Clark Kent — a 30 year,
world-renowned firefighter who is on his way back from the latest firefighting championships. He
has all his gear with him but, like Wolverine in the X-men, has loads of superpowers, so he rarely
needs it.
A. Explain, thoroughly, the relevant aspects of Aristotle’s and Mill’s theories. In other words, what
would Aristotle and Mill think is (morally) at stake in this scenario?
B. Explain how Granny and Clark Kent should both respond to the situation of the burning building
from both Aristotle’s and Mill’s perspectives. Would Aristotle require both Granny and Clark
Kent to do the same thing? Why or why not? Would Mill?
C. Make an argument explaining which philosopher gives the better moral guidance and which
gives the worst. What’s something that you would change to ameliorate the “worse” theory?
Be sure to thoroughly explain your assessments here.