Read the ethics case listed below and answer the questions associated with it. Then, think critically and answer the additional questions posed that relate to doing business internationally and the potential conflicts between domestic and foreign cultures. Ethics case 1: Rio Tintos Bribes in China Read the ethics case Rio Tintos Bribes in China at … Read more
Global Ethical StandardsIn recent years, there has been an effort to develop a common set of accounting standards for nations and firms doing business around the world. This has increased the motivation, or need, to establish a global set of ethical standards, as well. For this week’s discussion, you are required to respond to one … Read more
Ethics case 1: Carillion Bankruptcy: A Nightmare That Challenged the Foundations of the U.K. Accounting Profession Read the ethics case Carillion Bankruptcy at the end of Chapter 6 of your text and answer the following questions: What are the responsibilities of auditors to management, to the board, and to the public up to the following … Read more
First, read the excerpt of The Apology: Socrates’ Trial (pages 27 to 31). Incidentally, the word ‘apology’ here means ‘a speech made in defense of oneself’. To get some background of trial that took place in 399 BCE, 2,400+ years ago, view the lecture of the Yale University professor titled ‘Socratic Citizenship: Plato’s Apology’. I … Read more
First, consider Ion: After listening to a dramatic reading of Plato’s very short and early dialogue at this link, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkgWbg-0OcMI (Links to an external site.) consider the following. Ion was the Brad Pitt or Will Smith of his time. Ion was well-known, well-dressed, well-liked, and wealthy. Ion was a celeb. Socrates was, well, just a … Read more
First, consider Ion: After listening to a dramatic reading of Plato’s very short and early dialogue at this link, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkgWbg-0OcMI (Links to an external site.) consider the following. Ion was the Brad Pitt or Will Smith of his time. Ion was well-known, well-dressed, well-liked, and wealthy. Ion was a celeb. Socrates was, well, just a … Read more
Can Computers think and understand? Some have thought that if a computer can pass the Turing test, then it has thoughts and can understand language. What is the Turning test? And is passing the Turing test sufficient for showing that a computer can think? Explain and discuss the Mayan room argument, and discuss its relation … Read more
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 … Read more
Albert Camus: life is ultimately meaningless and any attempt to find or give meaning to life must fail. Once we recognize this futility, we are freed from the anxiety or stress of searching for meaning. Despite the fact that human life has no meaning (nor even, perhaps, value), we should still live intensely moral lives … Read more
Friedrich Nietzsche offers a stark re-evaluation of existing philosophy and religion in his many mid-Nineteenth Century works. In particular, Nietzsche inveighs against Christianity and Kantian thought, suggesting that these systems and worship of science as an alternative to them will simply lead to nihilism. Offer and defend your own opinion on whether Nietzsche is correct … Read more