Kantian And Utilitarian Responses To Globalisation

Question 1

For utilitarians, the creation of the greatest ? can be understood in ? terms.

Answer 1

Good.

Global.

Question 2

The World Bank calculated that ? million Chinese were lifted out of poverty since they began to open their economy in ?, predominantly due to ?

Answer 2

800.
1978.
Globalisation.

Question 3

Supporters of ? argue it’s benefits in ? terms: the good it does massively outweighs its disadvantages.

Answer 3

Globalisation.

Utilitarian.

Question 4

Critics of ? argue that this ? is the self-justification of the rich countries that want poor countries to open their ? to Western goods produced at the ? possible price for their own workers

Answer 4

Globalisation.
Utilitarianism.
Markets.
Lowest.

Question 5

Instead of producing the ? good for the greatest number, such critics would say that ? deepens global inequalities.

Answer 5

Greatest.

Globalisation.

Question 6

Kant argued that everyone should have the same degree of ?, accepting that governments would restrict people’s freedoms only to ensure that everyone had the same freedom. Without government ?, humans would act like other animals. His view clashed with the ? generated by ? and tolerated by those who benefit from it.

Answer 6

Freedom.
Control.
Inequality.
Globalisation.

Question 7

Transnational ? are often more powerful and wealthier than national ? and this has inevitably led some corporations into ? practices.

Answer 7

Corporations.
Governments.
Unethical.

Question 8

? suggests Kantian thinking can inform all businesses on how they should organise meaningful work which means:

• Work that is freely chosen, providing opportunities for the worker to exercise ?
• Work that supports the autonomy and ? of human beings.
• Work that should provide a ? sufficient to exercise independent living and ensure physical well-being and satisfaction.
• Work that shouldn’t undermine a worker’s ? ?

Answer 8

Bowie.
Autonomy.
Rationality.
Salary.
Moral development.

Question 9

Bowie suggests some features of a business that Kant would expect. The ? should:

• Consider all affected ? when decision-making.
• Ensure that no one stakeholder automatically takes priority in any decision.
• Not simply consider the number of stakeholders affected when the interests of one ? must be set against another.
• Ensure that profit-making has some duty of ?
• Ensure that relations with stakeholders should be governed by rules of ?

Answer 9

Firm.
Stakeholders.
Group.
Beneficence.
Justice.

Question 10

? point about not simply considering the number of stakeholders affected is a clear swipe at ? ethics.

Answer 10

Bowie’s.

Utilitarian.