lecture 3 Responsibility and corporations

Question 1

Three aspects of corporate social responsibility

Answer 1

is a type of responsibility
within a social sphere
allocated to corporations

Question 2

corporation

Answer 2

a large company or gruop of companies that is controlled together as a single organization

an organization,especially a business, that has a legally separate existence from the people who run it

Question 3

Responsibility (I)

Answer 3

an agent is morally responsible for the morally significant outcome of their actions in a way that is assessable in the shape of praise or blame

Not responding to teammates messages, which results in a poorer presentation and hence a worse grade

Praise and blame
Liability/accountability

Question 4

Two types of responsibility

Answer 4

Forward looking responsibility: we have responsibilities in the future things that we have duty to

Backward looking responsibility: we also can be responsible for things that went well, or went wrong

Question 5

You only have responsibility if

Answer 5

you had the power and freedom to do otherwise

You are an agent - someone (something) that acts

Question 6

Corporate social responsibility

Answer 6

The ethical responsibility that corporations have towards society

E.g. environmental responsiblity

Responsibility towards employees

Political responsibility

Question 7

Most people are individual agents

A company is a group agent

Answer 7

it has a collective aim taht is distinct from the sum of individual aims

It acts as an entity

it makes decisions

Just like football teams, music bands or governments

Question 8

Corporations can hold moral responsibilities

Answer 8

backwards-looking responsibility to compensate the victims of an oil spill

Forward-looking responsibility to invest in safety measures to avoid oil spills

Responsibility to who and for what?