Based on the above, what advantage you would reckon by including other moral principles
in the original utilitarianism framework.
Question 2:
Vignette 2: Supposed the employer is considering hiding from employees the dangerous
nature of some chemicals that are used in production. The company also regularly dumps
pollution into a river nearby.
Discuss the ethical state of the employer from the Utilitarianism perspective from the
following angle of rationalization, in view of the employees who need to deal with the
production processes that involve these harmful chemicals:
Information given to fully inform of the relevant facts
Externalities – which encompass external benefits or external costs, i.e. benefits or
costs realized by people other than
What is the role of the government to rectify or cushion the impact on the externalities?
Discuss the ethical state of the employer from the Kant’s Categorical Imperative
perspectives of the Principle of Rights from the following angle of rationalization, in view
of the employees who need to deal with the production processes that involve these harmful
chemicals – namely, irreversible, universalizable and with-respect treatment.
Discuss the ethical state of the employer from the Distributive Justice perspective, in terms
of egalitarianism and libertarianism.
Discuss the ethical state of the employer from the Caring Principle of Ethics.
Discuss the ethical state of the employer from the Virtue Theory, both as character and in