Ethics Case Study

Read this BEFORE you start writing your assignment! A. Guidance for answering the assignment questions 1. Identify the topics that are relevant to each assignment question. Start by reading the required readings, consulting your lecture notes, and working through the weekly activities (including the suggested answers when available) for these topics. Then review all of the learning material available for these topics on Blackboard to make sure that you have a strong grasp on what the topics are about, what the various concepts mean and how the relevant theories can be applied. 2. Pay attention to the mark allocation and the approximate number of words for each question in the assignment. This gives you an indication of how much depth is required in providing your answers. 3. Read through the criteria sheet, so that you know what is expected at the different grade levels. Make sure to read over the marking matrix at the end of the assignment task. 4. This is not a research essay, and there is no minimum number of expected references. You are not required to conduct extensive research in order to answer the questions, although you are free to consult additional sources if you wish. You will be assessed based on how well you understand the concepts and how you apply them to each of the questions. You are expected to write your answers in your own words. Where you have referred to course materials to put an explanation in your own words, you should make sure that you reference your source. If you make use of direct quotations, these must be referenced correctly. 5. Focus on the application of the theories by following the theories key criteria, and processes. While you should provide a brief overview of the theory (no more than a sentence) Do NOT describe or re-write ethical theories in detail. BSB111 Semester 3 2018 – Ethics Case Study Assignment Guidance, page 2 Specific questions: 1. Case 1(a): Using information from the case, your answer should cover all of the essential elements of the utilitarian approach, and come to a clear conclusion. Do not use other approaches. The word limit means that you will need to be concise, so avoid repetition and make sure that each sentence is necessary. Your answer should have a short explanation of the theory in your own words (one sentence only) and only refer to three stakeholders. Then for each of the stakeholders you need to look at the positives and negatives before determining an overall position on the basis of happiness points. Make sure that your question has a conclusion. 2. Case 1(b): Using information from the case, your answer should cover all of the essential elements of Kant’s deontological approach, and come to a clear conclusion with reference to the elements. Do not use other approaches. The word limit means that you will need to be concise, so avoid repetition and make sure that each sentence is necessary. Your answer should have a short explanation of the theory in your own words (one sentence only) followed by a statement of a maxim and the looking at whether there is a contradiction in conception AND a contradiction in will. You should then look at whether there is respect for humanity followed by a conclusion. 3. Case 1(c): In answering this question you should explain that ethics looks at right and wrong and then identify moral principles that are relevant to the facts of the question. 4. Case 1(d): Your answer should provide two normative questions and two descriptive questions. Make sure that the questions that you identify are different and not variations of the same question. 5. Case 1(e): Make sure that you provide a brief explanation of the theory that you have selected to answer (i) and (ii). Then for both (i) and (ii) apply the theory that you have selected to the facts of the question. Finally, make sure that you have a clear conclusion for both (i) and (ii).                                                                                                                              

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