Category: philosophy

The Future of Free Speech

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Class materials

• Digital Media Law Project. (2019). Fair use. http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/fair-use
• Burgess, M. (2017, August 22). Silicon Valley can’t handle hate. Should the state take over? https://www.wired.co.uk/article/hate-speech-online-fines-regulation-germany WIRED.
• Rainie, L., Anderson, J., & Albright, J. (2017, March 29). The future of free speech, trolls, anonymity, and fake news online. Pew Research Center. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2017/03/29/the-future-of-free-speech-trolls-anonymity-and-fake-news-online/
• United Nations Human Rights Council. (2018). Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression. https://freedex.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/2015/files/2018/05/G1809672.pdf
• Polyakova, A. (2018, October 3). What do Russian disinformation campaigns look like, and how can we protect our elections? The Brookings Institution.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brookings-now/2018/10/03/what-do-russian-disinformation-campaigns-look-like-and-how-can-we-protect-our-elections/
Videos
• Center for Strategic and International Studies. (2018, September 10). Countering disinformation: Interdisciplinary lessons for policy makers [Video file].
https://youtu.be/bApRkWDPJNA
Instructions
After reviewing the Study Materials for this module on free speech, trolls, and disinformation campaigns, consider your own experience online. Have you or someone you know ever had an experience with challenging online phenomena like trolling, cyber-hate speech, or disinformation campaigns? Who do you think should be responsible for overseeing the web—individuals, online communities, corporations, governments, or international coalitions?

Choose one of the themes discussed in The Future of Free Speech,Trolls, Anonymity, and Fake News Online and, in a paper of 500 to 750 words (approximately 2 to 3 pages), develop a policy to address the issues raised by your selected theme. Discuss steps that individuals, online communities, scholars, corporations, governments, and/or international coalitions can take to successfully address the issues. Support your analysis with one or more of the ethical frameworks (utilitarianism, deontology, virtue ethics, social justice and social contract theory). Use properly cited evidence from the Study Materials to support your points.

Thomas Hobbes and John Locke

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Rather than living in chaos, danger, and the hostility of our neighbors, we find ways to live together. It isn’t easy, but can we avoid doing so?

If everybody has self-interest in their own welfare and safety, then everybody also has self-interest in the welfare and safety of others. Self-interest involves community interest, and we must think about what we are willing to give up in order to get that safety and stability for ourselves, our families, our community, our nation, and even the world.

Thomas Hobbes and John Locke are just two examples of social contract moralists. Locke’s philosophy helped Thomas Jefferson formulate the United States Declaration of Independence. We are interested in what it means to live together in an orderly way under a social contract.

For the initial post, address one of the following sets of questions:

What is a time when you or someone you know of experienced a conflict between duty to self and loyalty to the community? What would logical reasoning say should be done in that case? Why that? What would an Ethical Egoist say to do? Why would they say to do that? Note what you feel is the best course of action.
What is a time when you or someone you know experienced a clash between professional duties and familial duties? Reference a professional code such as that of the American Nurses Association or American Bar Association in explaining the clash. What moral values should have been used in that case? Why those values? What would social contract ethics have said to have done? Why would social contract ethics say that? Note what you feel is the best course of action.
Articulate and evaluate a time when you or someone you know saw personal obligations collide with national obligations. How did that tension involve differing positions on a moral debate? Did those positions rely on any key moral theories? If so, how so? If not, why not? Note what you feel is the best course of action.

 

Company’s compensation philosophy regarding how the company compensates its employees.

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Write the initial guiding principles, in 1-2 pages, that you will use to define the company’s compensation philosophy regarding how the company compensates its employees.
Introduction
For an organization to implement an effective compensation and benefits policy, it is helpful to look at both the needs of the company and the individual, from both a practical and ethical perspective. Within this context is the legal and regulatory framework that guides the standards of HR policy.
Through this assessment, you will get an opportunity to establish the groundwork for studying compensation and benefits policy development. You will review labor laws that were referenced in your other human resource courses, and you will take a more focused look at the laws more relevant to wages and benefits. You will also look at the basic elements of any pay system.
Consider the ethical issues that influence compensation policy and how they may or may not harmonize with personal, corporate, and societal values. Also, think about the fundamental relationship an individual has with a company and how the contract for work and reward may represent a deeper contract between the employee, the employer, and the society in which the business is conducted.
Instructions
Imagine you are the HR manager for a new company just opening its doors in your community. The CEO has asked you to prepare the initial guiding principles you will use to define the company’s compensation philosophy regarding how the company compensates its employees.
Complete the following:
Describe the type of business, the number and types of employees (exempt and non-exempt), and the customer base you will use as your example company for this assessment, as well as the state and city or area of the state where your company is located.
Describe the factors will be used to determine salary decisions (for example, appropriate qualifications, contributions, performance, and budget considerations).
Discuss where the company wants to fit regarding compensation in the industry and related market. Bottom quartile? Industry average? Top quartile?
Discuss whether the company will reward top performers with incentive pay.
Discuss the role benefits (health, 401(k), et cetera) will play in the overall compensation package. Does the company want the benefits plan to be below market, at market, or above market? Why?

Immanuel Kant’s moral philosophy

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Immanuel Kant’s moral philosophy is extremely strict about what we ought and ought not do. So strict that he argued that it is always and everywhere wrong to lie. a.) Explain why Kant thought that lying was always wrong using the categorical imperative as a guide. b.) Explain whether you think Kant was right or wrong about this lying business and make sure to use clear examples to help your explanation along. If he was wrong, what’s an example of when it’s morally ok to lie, and if he was right, what’s an example where it looks ok to lie but it really isn’t ok?

“existence precedes essence”

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Is Sartre exaggerating the extent to which people can define themselves when he says “existence precedes essence”?
Which seems more likely to you: that your path in life is determined before you were born, or that you are born and then you determine how your life will go? Why? Is there a middle ground on this issue?
What is your reaction to Sartre’s perspective on freedom? Do you find his view liberating and inspiring, or do you think it is disheartening and forlorn?

 

 

Organization of the physical classroom environment

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Reflect on what you would like your future classroom to look like, sound like, and feel like. Write a reflective summary explaining your philosophy on organization of the physical classroom environment
Your summary should include 2 research studies that support your ideas/philosophy. You do not have to go into great detail explaining the study. You have to mention the study, and explain how its findings support your view. You must include a works cited page. This summary must be submitted using APA formatting.

 

 

Organization of the physical classroom environment

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Reflect on what you would like your future classroom to look like, sound like, and feel like. Write a reflective summary explaining your philosophy on organization of the physical classroom environment
Your summary should include 2 research studies that support your ideas/philosophy. You do not have to go into great detail explaining the study. You have to mention the study, and explain how its findings support your view. You must include a works cited page. This summary must be submitted using APA formatting.

 

 

Personal philosophy and framework acknowledging

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• Develop a personal philosophy and framework acknowledging professional and accrediting agency competencies relating to the role and scope of practice of the family nurse practitioner. Identify a nurse theorist that you align your current/ planned practice and how they provide the foundation for this philosophy development.
• Describe the type of educational courses and professional requirements required for APRN professional certification and licensing within the state that you will practice.
• Identify the precise application process for your certification exam, your state regulations for application for prescriptive authority/practice, and issues related to APRN practice within your state.
• Evaluate and discuss APRN roles and prescriptive privileges and impact on client safety and care
• Compare the differences between prescriptive authority, credentialing, and clinical privileges and how each of these impact client safety and care
• Evaluate the development of the advanced practice nurse role from a global perspective.

Personal philosophy and framework acknowledging professional

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• Develop a personal philosophy and framework acknowledging professional and accrediting agency competencies relating to the role and scope of practice of the family nurse practitioner. Identify a nurse theorist that you align your current/ planned practice and how they provide the foundation for this philosophy development.
• Describe the type of educational courses and professional requirements required for APRN professional certification and licensing within the state that you will practice.
• Identify the precise application process for your certification exam, your state regulations for application for prescriptive authority/practice, and issues related to APRN practice within your state.
• Evaluate and discuss APRN roles and prescriptive privileges and impact on client safety and care
• Compare the differences between prescriptive authority, credentialing, and clinical privileges and how each of these impact client safety and care
• Evaluate the development of the advanced practice nurse role from a global perspective.

Personal philosophy and framework acknowledging professional and accrediting agency competencies

Posted on | by Brian Leakey

• Develop a personal philosophy and framework acknowledging professional and accrediting agency competencies relating to the role and scope of practice of the family nurse practitioner. Identify a nurse theorist that you align your current/ planned practice and how they provide the foundation for this philosophy development.
• Describe the type of educational courses and professional requirements required for APRN professional certification and licensing within the state that you will practice.
• Identify the precise application process for your certification exam, your state regulations for application for prescriptive authority/practice, and issues related to APRN practice within your state.
• Evaluate and discuss APRN roles and prescriptive privileges and impact on client safety and care
• Compare the differences between prescriptive authority, credentialing, and clinical privileges and how each of these impact client safety and care
• Evaluate the development of the advanced practice nurse role from a global perspective.