Written assignment

 

Written Assignment Instructions and Outline
The recent Edward Snowden/NASA surveillance revelations case has brought a number of persistent ethical issues and problems to the fore. There are several ethical lenses through which we can view this case, and within each lens there are at least two ways of seeing it, much like bifocal glasses.
Including:
1) Edward Snowden; whistle blower or thief – patriot or traitor
2) The NSA; diligently doing its proper work to keep the nation safe or rogue agency out of control.
3) The American Public;trampled right to privacy, or willing sacrificed privacy for security
4) The Leaders of the World; who’s privacy was invaded or they are all doing the same thing to each other?

In this written assignment, choose any one lens to focus on and present BOTH sides (or positions). Follow the outline for the paper provided below. Use Headings and the Subheadings to organize your thoughts. Cite all of your work correctly. If you use more than five consecutive words from someone else, you must use quotation marks and a FULL citation including the page number. If you paraphrase something of someone else’s you do not need the page number in the citation BUT be sure there are not five consecutive words left in the statement
Formatting and putting it all together. Your whole document should be in New Times Roman 12 Font, unless otherwise noted. Use MLA citation style ONLY. Number the pages. DO NOT use a running HEADER or FOOTER.

 

 

TITLE PAGE Include the title you are giving the paper “Centered” in 14 font New Times Roman

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Your Name under the title in 12 Font

The name and number of the course and the semester
The name of the instructor.

TABLE of CONTENT If your paper is longer than 10 pages it needs one. See sample below.

 

 

TABLE of CONTENT (“Centered” in 14 font New Times Roman)

SECTION PAGE

Introduction ………………………………….. ………………….2

Section I The Problem ………………………………….……. 3
Events…………………………………………………….4
Key Players ………………………………………………….6
X …………………………………………………..6
Y…………………………………………………..7

Section II Moral Agency ………… ………………………………..8

 

 

INTRODUCTION See sample

SECTIONS Give each section of your paper a title. All of the headings and subheadings that appear in the paper should be listed in the Table of Content. Depending on how many levels of Headings, subheadings and sub=subheadings the fonts should distinguish the importance of the section. For example: Major Sections could be ALL CAPS or Bolded. Headings could be first letter Capitol. Subheadings could be indented and sub-sub headings (if you have them) in italics.

CONCLUSION This is where you can freely express your own thoughts and opinions.

REFERENCES In MLA reference style citations in the References are listed in alphabetical order, LAST name FIRST. While you can abbreviate several authors in the text citation with < et al. >, in the References you must list ALL the author full names. However, after the first author, the names go FIRST name FIRST.

 

 

 

Outline
Title Page
Table of Content
Including ALL your headings and subheadings and the page numbers they start on.
Introduction (See Template provided)
Statement of the problem or issue
This is the lens you have chosen and the positions you are taking. Tell the story, but keep the information relevant to the topic at hand.
Moral Agency
A brief discussion on the subject of Moral Agency and why it is relevant to this paper. Name who (can also be an organization) is the moral agent in this case and why.
Moral Argument
State all the facts and circumstances in the case as you know them. Then addressall the ethical issues that you can identify. Taking the issues one by one (use subheadings) make your arguments that each was either a proper thing to do or not. Cite the ethical system it falls into and/or a school of philosophy that is the authority. You can organize this section in 2 ways. Either present all of the issues (as the subheadings) related to one side and then mirror it for the other. Or, make one complete argument and then the other. For example lens #1 Edward Snowden as the Moral Agent:
Whistle Blower and Patriot (major heading)
Issue #1 ( Subheadings) Issue #2 Issue #3 Issue #4
Thief and Traitor (major heading)
Issue #1 ( Subheadings) Issue #2 Issue #3 Issue #4
OR

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Issue #1 (major heading)
A Thief and Traitor (Subheadings)
B Whistle Blower and Patriot
Issue #2 (major heading)
A Thief and Traitor (Subheadings)
B Whistle Blower and Patriot
Issue #3 (major heading)
A Thief and Traitor (Subheadings)
B Whistle Blower and Patriot
Issue #4 (major heading)
A Thief and Traitor (Subheadings)
B Whistle Blower and Patriot

Conclusion What could have been done better, or at least another way? Do we need now legislation to be written to cover this in the law? Does the public need to be more diligent in protecting their democratic rights? What happens when values collide? Etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are some References to get you started on Moral Agency research.

 

French, Peter (1979). “The Corporation as a Moral Person.” American Philosophical Quarterly 3. 207 – 215.

Goodpaster, Kenneth E. and John B. Matthews, Jr., “Can a Corporation Have a Conscience?” in Ethical Issues in Business: A Philosophical Approach 3rd ed. Thomas Donaldson and Patricia H. Werhane(eds). Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.

Hamilton, V. Lee and Joseph Sanders (1992). “Responsibility and Risk in Organizational Crimes of Obedience.” Research in Organizational Behavior 14: 49 – 90.

Harmon, Michael M. (1995). Responsibility As Paradox: A Critique of Rational Discourse on Government. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Harworth, L. (1959). “Do Organizations Act?” Ethics. 70 (1): 59-90.

Klein, Sherwin, (1988). “Is a Moral Organization Possible?” Business and Professional Ethics Journal 7 (1): 51 – 73.

Ladd, John (1984). “Corporate Mythology and Individual Responsibility.” The International Journal of Applied Philosophy2 : 1 – 21.

Ranken, Nani L. (1985). “Conscientiousness and Work Roles: An Individualist Approach to Ethics of Corporate Conduct.” Business and Professional Ethics Journal 5 (1). 51-68.

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Velasquez, Manuel G. (1983). “Why Corporations Are Not Morally Responsible for Anything They Do” Business and Professional Ethics Journal 3 (2): 1-18.

Werhane, Patricia M. (1989). “Corporate and Individual Moral Responsibility: A Reply to Jan Garrett.” Journal of Business Ethics 8 (10): 821-822.