Assignment: Mill Workshop
Task 1-
Read the breakdown of Loyalty Conflicts on page 85 (shared humanity, professional practice, employment, media role in public life)
Answer the following: If loyalty is a virtue think of a situation where it can also be for the greater good? How can you make sense of the competing loyalties?
Task 2 - Read about the Potter Box on page 87
Find an opinion piece written in a reputable newspaper. Go through the 4 parts to the Potter Box and analyze at each level. Apply Mill's ethical framework. Then conclude was it ethical to publish the story?
Task 3
MILLS FACTORS TO CONSIDER - In calculating the good vs bad there are many factors that the ethical framework looks at. Get familiar with the following.
1. Intensity: Strength of the pleasure and pain. The greater the pleasure, the higher the positive value; the greater the pain, the more negative the value.
2. Duration: Length of time the pain and pleasure will last.
3. Certainty: Level of probability that the pleasure or pain will occur.
4. Propinquity: How soon in time the pleasure or pain will occur.
5. Fecundity: Extent to which the pleasure will produce more pleasure.
6. Purity: The pleasure does not cause pain at the same time.
7. Extent: The number of sentient beings affected by the action.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.