Solution Manual for Business Law with UCC Applications by Sukys | Complete & Verified Answers

Solution Manual for Business Law
with UCC Applications by Sukys |
Complete & Verified Answers

,Chapter 1




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,PART 1 ETHICS, LAW, AND THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM

Chapter 1 Ethics, Social Responsibility, and the Law
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(Note: The answers to these questions can be found in the Case in Point features at the opening
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of each chapter in BLUCCA 16 or in the text of each chapter. Consequently, to ensure
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accuracy, the answers are taken directly from the Cases in Point feature and/or the text.
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Student answers should reflect this, but should either be written in the student‘s own words or,
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when quoted, cited appropriately.)
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1.Answers will vary. Accept all well-reasoned answers based on one of the ethical
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4.Yes.Max Weber argues that two-levels of morality exist, represented by the ethic of ultimate
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ends for individuals and an ethic of responsibility for national leaders. The ethic of
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ultimate ends must be practiced by individuals because individuals can never completely
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foresee ―the ultimate ends‖ of their actions. Therefore, individuals must obey absolute
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moral precepts, such as ―always help the poor and less fortunate,‖ or
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, "turn the other cheek," or "always tell the truth,‖ despite the fact that the ultimate
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consequences of those actions are unclear or uncomfortable. j j j j j j j j




On the other hand, the ethic of responsibility demands that moral actors—in this case,
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national leaders—must consider their responsibilities to those people who depend on
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those leaders for safety and security. So, for example, if a neighboring nation is
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belligerent, aggressive, or determined to fight ancient cultural, religious, and ethnic wars, j j j j j j j j j j j j




the leaders of the first nation cannot ignore that threat, as much as they might want to. In
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short, they are not permitted to ―turn the other cheek‖ because to do so would endanger
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the innocent people they have the duty to protect. Unfortunately, many national leaders
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fail to see this distinction. The leaders of the United States have been especially guilty of
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this shortsightedness.
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5.The existence of the social contract permits people to live together in peace and harmony,
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but it does not permit anyone, not even the leader, to violate the core rights of life and
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security. Should a leader consistently violate core rights, then the people have a duty to
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demand that such oppressive and dangerous behavior end. j j j j j j j j




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1.The law is a set of rules made by the government to promote stability, harmony, and
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justice. Morality involves the values that are the foundation for moral decision
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making. Ethics is a way to figure out what those values might be.
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2.Traditional natural law sees law as originating from an objective, superior force that stands
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outside the everyday experience of most people. Historically, natural law had its origin in
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the classical Judeo-Christian belief in a Divinity that created, controls, and rules the
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physical universe according to a set of universal laws that came from the will of the
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Divinity. Similarly, modern natural law also sees law as originating from an objective
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origin point; however, that origin point is neither transcendent nor supernatural but is,
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instead, conceived of by the human mind. Thus, the source of natural law comes from
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within the mind of social philosophers, such as Thomas Hobbes, Jean Jacques Rousseau,
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Immanuel Kant, and Jean Paul Sartre, each of whom claimed to have found the correct j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j




objective standard of human morality. j j j j j




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