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Week 4 Reading Response #4 Note: this is a separate assignment from the Lab 2 assignment Due Date: April 23, Thursday. Submit to D2L.

Topic: Intellectual Property (IP)

Focus: Rule Utilitarianism & Virtue Ethics

1. Birsch, Chapter 8 Aristotle’s Ethical Theory. Answer Problems: 1, 5, 9, &10. You can number these questions: 1.1, 1.5, 1.9, 1.10

2. List all the strengths and weaknesses of virtue ethics.

3. Birsch, Chapter 5, 4 pages from Sections: The Starting Point pages 76-77; Rule Utilitarian pages 83-84.

Answer Problems: 1, 3, & 4.

4. Read and summarize Chapter 1: General Remarks, pages 1–4; Time to Calculate on pages 16–17, from:

Mill, John Stuart. (1863). Utilitarianism. Retrieved from http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/mill1863.pd f

5. From Abelson answer each the following:

a What is a peer-to-peer network?

b Summarize the MGM vs. Grokster case.

c Summarize the Sony v. Universal City Studios case.

d Why is the MGM vs. Grokster case different than the Sony v. Universal City Studios case?

6. Discuss how John Stuart Mill’s life and times influenced his philosophy. (About 3 good paragraphs should do it.)