A2. Peter Singer says that we often face an ‘ultimate choice’ between self-interest and ethics. Explain the contrast Singer makes between ultimate choices and restricted choices, providing examples to illustrate the distinction.
(Attachment A2) Peter Singer, ‘The Ultimate Choice’, Ch.1 of How are We to Live? Ethics in an age of self-interest, (Mandarin: Melbourne,1995), pp. 1-25. The Ultimate Choice
A4. Explain how Evan and Freeman use Kant’s notion of respect for persons to support a stakeholder theory of business obligations. What objections do Evan and Freeman raise to the narrow view of business ethics?
(Attachment A4) William M. Evan & R. Edward Freeman, ‘A Stakeholder theory of the modern corporation: Kantian capitalism’. Reprinted in George D. Chryssides & John H.Kaler, An Introduction to Business Ethics’, (Chapman & Hall, London, 1993), pp. 254-266
B1. Do you agree with Robert Arrington that only advertising that is overtly deceptive poses a threat to individual autonomy? Why/why not? What reasons does Arrington give for rejecting the view that advertising undermines autonomy by creating rather than responding to consumer desires?
(Attachment B1) Robert L. Arrington, ‘Advertising and Behavior Control’ in William H. Shaw and Vincent Barry, Moral Issues in Business. 8th Edition (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2001.)
(Attachment B1 – Further reading) Richard L.Lippke, ‘Advertising and the Social Conditions of Autonomy’ in William H. Shaw and Vincent Barry, Moral Issues in Business. 8th Edition (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2001)

C2. Explain what Thomas Pogge means by ‘moral universalism’. What reasons does he give for the view that citizens and governments of wealthy western societies are in part morally responsible for persistent global poverty?
(Attachment C2) Thomas Pogge, ‘Moral Universalism and global economic justice’, Chapter 4 of World Poverty and Human Rights (Ozford, Blackwell, 2002), pp. 91-117
(Attachment C2- Further Reading) Peter Singer, ‘One Economy’, ch.3 in One World – the Ethics of Globalisation, (Melbourne, Text, 2002), pp. 58-119
C4. According to De George’s standard theory of justified whistleblowing, what three conditions when satisfied make whistleblowing morally permissible? Is whistleblowing ever morally obligatory? Explain why/ why not.