PHI 361 Module 5 – Flashcards

In this module, the "race to the bottom" refers to:

In his essay "The Great Non-Debate Over International Sweatshops," Ian Maitland argues that good ethical judgment requires that more sweatshops, not fewer, are needed.

In their essay "Sweatshops and Respect for Persons," Denis Arnold and Norman Bowie argue that a worker's productivity is independent of the wages paid to that worker.

In their essay "Sweatshops and Respect for Persons,"Denis Arnold and Norman Bowie argue that respecting workers in global factories means that MNE managers must adhere to local labor and environmental laws.

In his essay "The Great Non-Debate Over International Sweatshops," Ian Maitland argues that corporate managers should appease their critics and improve the working conditions in their global factories.

Arnold and Bowie argue that we need not be concerned about the plight of workers who voluntarilly accept jobs, even when those jobs are much worse than they should be.

In their essay "Sweatshops and Respect for Persons,"Denis Arnold and Norman Bowie argue that respecting workers in global factories requires that MNE managers must ensure that workers are paid a wage for a 48-hour work week that keeps them out of overall poverty.

One objection to Cultural Relativism is that the mere fact that a culture thinks that a practice is moral, does not mean that it is moral.

Cultural Relativism is the view which asserts that whatever a culture says is right or wrong for it, is really right or wrong.

According to Kant, the mugger is acting impermissibly because he: