PHI 2604 Topics for Midterm

(Find summary of topics for Chapters 1-3 here)

Chapter 4

1- Historic background of Capitalism
2- Key Features of Capitalism (companies, profit motive, competition, private property).
3- Moral Justifications of Capitalism (Natural Right to Property, Adam Smith’s Concept of the Invisible Hand)
4- Critiques of Capitalism (Inequality, Human Nature and Capitalism, Capitalism breeding Oligopolies, Exploitation and Alienation)
5- Declining Interests in Production

Chapter 5

1- LLC
2- Meanings of Moral Responsibility
3- Corporations and Moral Decisions
4- Narrow View of Corporate Responsibility
5- Broader View of Corporate Responsibility
6- Invisible Hand argument
7- Do-It-Government argument
8- Inept Custodian argument
9- Materialization of Society
10- Four-point guideline for companies to follow a "broader view"

Chapter 6

1- Hiring (Screening): Job description, job specification
2- Tests: Aptitude, Personality, Skill Tests
3- Interviews (how should they be conducted)
4- Promotions: Tensions between seniority and qualifications
5- Inbreeding
6- Discipline and Discharge: “just cause” and “due process”
7- Wages p. 289
8- History of the Union Movement
9- Direct Strike, Sympathetic Strike, Boycotts

Link to textbook for questions, exams, etc.

This is the link to your PHI 2604 text. To the left of the page, you have the chapters (1-6). Check each of the tutorial exams. Play with it and have fun. I may use some of these questions for the final. (Don't forget to bring your scantron sheets to the exam).