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Week 3 Forum Euthanasia & Aristotle

  • Choose one of the following topics to respond to for your initial post. HOWEVER, POST YOUR INITIAL POST AS A REPLY, NOT A NEW “Conversation.” Each of the choices will have its own thread. This will make it easier for everyone. Know that if you post your primary post to topic A, then you will need at least one more post in that thread and at least one post in the other thread. NOTE, replies to me count for participation.
  • Indicate your last name and chosen topic in the title of your post.

Requirements:

  • Your initial post should be at least 250 words.
  • See the syllabus for assignment requirements and grading criteria, and be sure to quote from the readings to illustrate your points, followed by MLA citation, both in-text and on a Works Cited page.

Topic A: Euthanasia

Do you think that voluntariness is morally important in euthanasia decisions? How important do you think that it is? For example, do you think that it is so important that whatever a person requests ought to be done? Explain. Does your conclusion regard the morality or also the legality of euthanasia?

Topic B: Aristotle

Clarify as much as possible Aristotle’s distinction between practical knowledge and theoretical knowledge. Does an understanding of this distinction help account for why persons who know certain habits or behaviors are harmful, still persist in those behaviors?

[From Instructor: I do not know that the reading and the lesson gives you an adequate understanding of the various types of wisdom you need when addressing one of the discussion questions this week. If you click here, you will find book 6 from the Nichomachean ethics. If you read sections 3 through 8 you will get a better understanding of just what Aristotle was claiming

http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.6.vi.html ]

Initial posts must be 250+ words, using correct grammar and spellcheck. Part of the requirement for a substantive post is to bring something new to the conversation. Read the forum prompt and fully answer it, demonstrate understanding of the lesson/content, include evidence from firsthand experience, reference to the course materials, and apply what you’re discussing to work, life, and reality.

READING

Ethics, An Online TextbookStephen O’ Sullivan and Philip A. PecorinoChapter 2: Moral Developments, Mores and Laws http:// to Ethical StudiesLee Archie and John G. ArchieChapter 22: “What is the Life of Excellence?” by Aristotle 

https://philosophy.lander.edu/ethics/ethicsbook/c5574.html

 

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Gourmet Foods Works on Employee Attitudes Gourmet Foods is a huge grocery and drug company. It has more than 2400 supermarkets, and its Premier and Polar brands make it the fifth-largest drugstore company in North America. In a typical year, shoppers will make 1.4 billion trips through its stores. Gourmet Foods competes against tough businesses. Wal-Mart, in particular, has been eating away at its market share. In 2010, with revenues flat and profits falling, the company hired Larry Johnston to turn the business around. Larry Johnston came to Gourmet Foods from General Living Medical Systems, and while he was there, he met a training specialist named Roger Nelson. At the time, Johnston had been sent to Paris to fix General Living’s European division. Over the previous decade, four executives had been brought in to turn the division around and try to make it profitable, but all had failed. Johnston responded to the challenge by initiating some important changes—he made a number of acquisitions, he closed down inefficient plants, and he moved factories to Eastern European countries to take advantage of lower labour costs. Then he brought in Roger Nelson to charge up the troops. “After we got Roger in,” says Johnston, “people began to live their lives differently. They came to work with a spring in their step.” In three years, the division was bringing in annual profits of $100 million. Johnston gives a large part of the credit for this turnaround to Nelson. What is Nelson’s secret? He provides motivation and attitude training. Here is an example of Nelson’s primary program—called the Successful Life Course. It lasts three days and begins each morning at 6 a.m. The first day begins with a chapter from an inspirational handout, followed by 12 minutes of yoga-like stretching. Then participants march up a hill, chanting, “I know I can, I know I can.” This is followed by breakfast and then a variety of lectures on attitude, diet, and exercise. Other parts of the program include team activities, and mind-control relaxation exercises. But the primary focus of the program is on attitude. Says Nelson, “It’s your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.” Johnston believes strongly in Nelson’s program. “Positive attitude is the single biggest thing that can change a business,” says Johnston. He sees Nelson’s program as being a critical bridge linking employees with customers: “We’re in the business of maintenance and acquisition of customers.” With so many shoppers going through his stores, Johnston says there are “a lot of opportunities for customer service. We’ve got to energize our people.” To prove he is willing to put his money where his mouth is, Johnston has committed $10 million to Nelson’s training. Nelson claims his program works and he cites success he achieved at other companies. “The goal is to improve mental, physical, and emotional well-being,” he says. “We as individuals determine the success of our lives. Positive thoughts create positive actions.”

Questions

 1. Johnston says, “Positive attitude is the single biggest thing that can change a business.”

a. Do you agree with this statement? Why or why not?

b. How valid and generalizable do you think this statement is? Explain your answer.

 2. If you were a Gourmet Foods employee, how would you feel about going through Nelson’s course? Do you think it would make a positive impact upon you? Critically evaluate your position.

Please read the short case posted and answer the subsequent questions and submit any 2 references for the case.

 

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Write 2 page essay on the topic Stakeholders Influence.

achieve this, I shall concentrate upon incorporating the use of latest technology to facilitate the organizational personnel in the process of assisting the consumers.

I am the CEO of a public health organization. The organization faces the challenges of limited resources whereas the number of patients has been on an increase in the past few years. There is limited staff, equipment, and technology to provide the patients with quality care. There are two basic types of stakeholders in the public corporations. internal stakeholders and external stakeholders. Internal stakeholders are those that are involved in resourcing, funding, and coordination of the strategies whereas external stakeholders are the ones who share their experiences and opinions upon the issues and points of concern to them as representatives of the local community and the service users. Internal stakeholders of the public corporations include but are not limited to director of nursing, head of health information and intelligence, procurement, public health strategists, managers, researchers, trustees, and board committee members. External stakeholders include media, news reporters, policy makers, consumers of services rendered by the public corporation, providers, local authority, vendors, and funders.

As the CEO of the public corporation, my powers are limited since government is the prime decision-maker. “The specific responsibility and influence of public organizations within institutional collective action…is a source of ambiguity. It becomes therefore a matter of political authority for public organizations to invest in the structuring of public problems and policies” (Demortain, 2004). According to my plan, I would first prioritize the issues according to their importance. I would assess the influence of internal and external stakeholders in relation to each issue, as well as their sources of influence. “The impact stakeholders can have on organisational policy, strategy, and

 

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Burger Prince Restaurant is considering the purchase of a $100,000 fire insurance policy. The fire statistics indicate that in a given year the probability of property damage in a fire is as follows:

Fire

$100,00

$75,000

$50,000

$25,000

$10,000

$0

Damage

0

Probability

.006

.002

.004

.003

.005

.980

Requested:

a. If Burger Prince was risk neutral, how much would they be willing to pay for fire insurance?

b. If Burger Prince has the utility values given below, approximately how much would they be willing to pay for fire insurance?

Amount of

$100,0

$75,00

$50,00

$25,00

$10,00

$5,000

$0

Loss

00

0

0

0

0

Utility

0

30

60

85

95

99

100

 

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