Ethics category: 8196 books
Doing Ethics in a Pluralistic World
Essays in Honour of Roger C. Hutchinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2002
Doing Ethics in a Pluralistic World is an apt title for this collection of essays in honour of Roger C. Hutchinson who, over many decades, has encouraged and participated in shaping a Canadian contextual social ethics. His abiding interest in social ethics and in religious engagement with public issues...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Ethics, 2nd Edition
Resolve the Ethical Dilemmas That Arise in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Ethics are more than a personal philosophy.
From the crimes of Bernie Madoff to the accusations of war crimes and torture to the massive greed-inspired fraud perpetrated by the financial institutions around the world, this new edition of The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Understanding Ethics,...
The Ethics of Sport
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
We encourage children to play sports from an early age in order to instill in them such virtues as teamwork, perseverance, respect, fairness, and discipline, but, as perennial scandals in the headlines show us, sports also give rise to thorny ethical problems. Can the ugly, corrupt side of sports...
Ethics and the Media
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
This book is a comprehensive introduction to media ethics and an exploration of how it must change to adapt to today's media revolution. Using an ethical framework for the new 'mixed media' ethics – taking in the global, interactive media produced by both citizens and professionals – Stephen J....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
This volume examines a variety of philosophical approaches that seek to formulate practical guidelines or norms for human actions and behavior in different areas of society, including politics, cultural traditions, the environment, business management, architecture, and medicine.
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by Pete Geissler, Bill O'Rourke
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2016
Ethics - described as the norms by which acceptable and unacceptable behaviors are measured - has been the concern, and perhaps the great dilemma, of sentient humans since Socrates subjected it to philosophical inquiry almost 2500 years ago. Socrates believed, without universal acceptance, that the...
On the (Im)Possibility of Business Ethics
Critical Complexity, Deconstruction, and Implications for Understanding the Ethics of Business
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Corporations, and the environments in which they operate, are complex, with changing multiple dimensions, and an inherent capacity to evolve qualitatively. A central premise of this study is that a postmodern reading of ethics represents an expression of, and an engagement with, the ethical complexities...
Leadership Ethics
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2008
Are leaders morally special? Is there something ethically distinctive about the relationship between leaders and followers? Should leaders do whatever it takes to achieve group goals? Leadership Ethics uses moral theory, as well as empirical research in psychology, to evaluate the reasons everyday...
The Ethics of Neoliberalism
The Business of Making Capitalism Moral
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
The 21st century is the age of "neo-liberalism" – a time when the free market is spreading to all areas of economic, political and social life. Yet how is this changing our individual and collective ethics? Is capitalism also becoming our new morality? From the growing popular demand for...
Ethics and Health Care
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Who should have access to assisted reproductive technologies? Which one of many seriously ill patients should be offered the next available transplant organ? When may a surrogate decision maker decide to withdraw life-prolonging measures from an unconscious patient? Questions like these feature prominently...
Ethos, Bioethics, and Sexual Ethics in Work and Reception of the Anatomist Niels Stensen (1638-1686)
Ethos, Bioethics, and Sexual Ethics in Work and Reception of the Anatomist Niels Stensen (1638-1686)
Circulation of Love
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
This book offers a unique and comprehensive outline of the ethos, the bioethics and the sexual ethics of the renowned anatomist and founder of modern geology, Niels Stensen (1638-1686). It tells the story of a student who is forced to defend himself against his professor who tries to plagiarize his...
Animal Ethics and Philosophy
Questioning the Orthodoxy
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Debate in animal ethics needs reenergizing. To date, philosophers have focused on a relatively limited number of specific themes whilst leaving metaphilosophical issues that require urgent attention largely unexamined.
This timely collection of essays brings together new theory and critical...
Complex Ethics Consultations
Cases that Haunt Us
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2008
Clinical ethicists encounter the most emotionally eviscerating medical cases possible. They struggle to facilitate resolutions founded on good reasoning embedded in compassionate care. This book fills the considerable gap between current texts and the continuing educational needs of those actually...
Assessment in Ethics Education
A Case of National Tests in Religious Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
This book presents a number of fundamentally challenging perspectives that have been brought to the fore by the national tests on religious education (RE) in Sweden. It particularly focuses on the content under the heading Ethics. It is common knowledge that many teachers find these parts difficult...