Question

1. Restatetheargumentbelowusingstandardargumentform.

None of my Hindu friends eat beef. When I visited India two years ago, the Hindu restaurants I ate at in different parts of India did not serve beef. Therefore, it is very likely that all Hindus do not eat beef.

P1: P2:

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2. For the argument in question 1 decide whether it is a good or a bad argument. If you think it is deductive, then explain whether it is valid and sound; if you think it is inductive, explain whether it is strong.

3. What is the conclusion of the argument below? Determine whether the argument is deductively valid. Explain your reasons.

My roommate must have spilled coffee in the kitchen this morning since only two of us were in the kitchen in the morning and I did not spill the coffee.

4. Determine whether the argument is deductively sound. Explain your reasons.

Some nurses are men.

All RN’s are nurses. ________________________ All RN’s are men.

5. What is ethical relativism? Explain this theory using your own words. What makes ethical relativism problematic? Explain one criticism raised by the author.

6. Explain the ethical theory known as utilitarianism in your own words. State and explain one advantage or benefit of using utilitarianism, especially in business.

7. How does the Economic Model of corporate social responsibility differ from the Modified Version of the Economic Model?

8. What is a social entrepreneurship? Explain by using the Strategic/Sustainability Model of CSR.

9. What is a sustainability company? Explain by using the strategic/sustainability model of CSR.

10.What does an equal opportunity policy guarantee? Why does the author refer to it as passive nondiscrimination? Explain in your own words or by referring to the text.

11.Explain the concept of workplace democracy or participation rights? Why are these rights important?

12.What kind of a hiring policy could be used to provide compensatory advantage (“means of compensating for past harms”)? Explain.

13.What is the agent-principal relationship? What duties does it assign to the employee? What duties does it assign to the employer?

14.How do professional employees (and their duties) differ from other kinds of employees? Use an example of a profession to illustrate your point. What makes something a profession?

15.In Chapter 12 the author argues that a business manager doing business overseas cannot be an ethical relativist if he wants to pursue his business goals in an ethical manner. Briefly, explain what he means. To illustrate the point, come up with an example of one possible negative consequence of ethical relativism related to international business.

Answer 1

1. None of hindus eat beef it is true and it is also true that most hindus doesn't consume meat . If we talk about beef particularly cow is sacred for Hindus and they worship cow, there are religious sentiments on stake. Like wise we have seen the news about moblynching because there was a roumour that the man consumed beef. He got killed by mob. There are lot of such incident , so it is better to not eat beef in India. We must respect other's religious views.
2. As we know in India people are little intolerant about their religion and their belief. Because of these believes you can suffer so based on premises there could be unfortunate outcome that is the basis of inductive argument. Some fact we see from answer one.
3. The conclusion here is that roomate spilled the coffee. The reasons are given below:
   • There were only two person in kitchen and there she clarifies she is not the one.
   1. It's just like syllogism.