Case Study

 

Please read the case study entitled I Wouldn’t Change a Thing that you find in the reading assignment. https://2012books.lardbucket.org/books/business-ethics/s08-theories-responding-to-the-cha.html 

Note: There is a link included in the textbook as part of the case study that no longer works. The information from the link is not needed to answer the following questions.

Based on what you have learned in this unit, answer the following questions:

1. Tanksley reports about her young life up to this point that “if I had to do it all over again, I wouldn’t change a thing.” Can you use this as a point of departure for
   • defining Nietzsche’s eternal return and showing how it works?
   • characterizing Tanksley’s professional life as one fit for approval by Nietzsche’s eternal return?
     
     
2. The values guiding Wallace Souza’s work as a news reporter in remote Brazil—especially the kinds of images judged appropriate for TV there—are quite different from those guiding TV reporting in the United States. Why does Nietzsche believe this kind of cultural clash is a reason to subscribe to the eternal return and simultaneously abandon traditional ethical theories, which attempt to pertain universally?
   
   
3. Tanksley reports about her young life up to this point that “working in the government sector where my daily responsibilities afford me the opportunity to empower and inspire everyday people is a career that ignites my passion for people.” How might an advocate of the eternal return respond to this sentiment? Explain.
   
   
4. Whose life seems more in tune with how you imagine yourself living the eternal return, Souza’s or Tanksley’s? Why?