1. Homework 1
Powerpoints

2. Readings
Justice chapters 2 & 3 Nursing Ethics chapter 4

3. GOALS
Develop answers to the following questions which we will discuss in this online class. They are designed to amplify the main points covered in the readings and cover the material necessary to the class assignments. I will draw upon you to share these responses in the course of our discussion.

4. Justice-2
Who was Jeremy Bentham? What is the concept of utility?

5. Justice
What political purpose did Bentham have for the principle of utility? Give an example of what Bentham had in mind.

6. Justice
Explain Bentham’s argument that happiness is an intrinsic good. Give an example of an non-intrinsic good and explain why it is valued.

7. What, according to Bentham, were the sovereign masters of mankind
What, according to Bentham, were the sovereign masters of mankind? What did Bentham think of natural rights? Why?

8. Justice
What was Bentham’s calculus? Using the example of cheating on a test, explain how you would determine whether this was a good or bad action.

9. Justice
Consider the Dudley and Stephens lifeboat case. How might a utilitarian argue that the killing (and eating) of the cabin boy was justifiable?

10. What is the human dignity objection to this argument?

11. Justice
What is the common currency argument against Bentham’s calculus?

12. Justice
John Stuart Mill tried to address these two objections. Who was Mill and what was his relationship to Bentham?

13. Justice
How did Mill attempt to justify individual rights through the doctrines of Utilitarianism? What does Sandel think of this argument?

14. Justice
How, for Mill, do we know which pleases are of the most worth? What does Sandel think of this argument?

15. Justice
Explain the libertarian theory of rights.

16. Justice
How did Milton Friedman promote libertarian policies? What is Robert Nozick’s minimal state argument?

17. Justice
Give two examples of objections to Libertarianism. 1) 2)

18. Nursing Ethics
On the question of well-being what, according to the ANA Code of Ethics is the nurse’ duty to the patient?

19. Nursing Ethics
How, do you think the two principles “do no harm” and “do good” should be weighted in patient care?

20. Nursing Ethics
What should be done in case 4.2?

21. Nursing Ethics
Discuss Case 4.6

22. Nursing Ethics
What principles should guide nurses in case 4-11?

23. Questions