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Wanted: Everyday Ethics

Ruminations from an Ethics Revolutionary

by Phyllis Kae, Phyllis Kae P.I.
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011

Phyllis Kaes voice captures the energy of ethics. She provides us with the essential tools to start building the foundation of a world wherein people will look to each other for help without the fear of being left helpless. Phyllis challenges us to do what we all know is right, but she does so in...
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Business Ethics

A Stakeholder and Issues Management Approach

by Joseph W. Weiss
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014

NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED This is a pragmatic, hands-on, up-to-date guide to determining right and wrong in the business world. Joseph Weiss integrates a stakeholder perspective with an issues-oriented approach so students look at how a business’s actions affect not just share price and profit...
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by W. Brad Johnson, Charles R. Ridley
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008

From the authors of Elements of Mentoring, this handy guide pulls the existing research on the delicate balance of professional ethics into one concise source. Johnson and Ridley explore seventy-five of the most important and pithy truths for supervisors in all fields, including questions of...
Cover of The History of Western Ethics
by Brian Duignan
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010

Ethics is the business of moral philosophy by which humans try to determine what behaviors are right and wrong; good and bad; noble and ignoble. Each person strives for rectitude as they understand it, while working within the accepted values of a larger group dynamic. The moral view of the larger...
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by Simone de Beauvoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018

From the groundbreaking author of The Second Sex comes a radical argument for ethical responsibility and freedom. In this classic introduction to existentialist thought, French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity simultaneously pays homage to and grapples with her French...
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by Tom Regan, Jeremy Garrett, Mylan Engel Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016

Edited by Mylan Engel Jr. and Gary Lynn Comstock, this book employs different ethical lenses, including classical deontology, libertarianism, commonsense morality, virtue ethics, utilitarianism, and the capabilities approach, to explore the philosophical basis for the strong animal rights view, which...
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The Christian Moral Life

Practices of Piety

by Timothy F. Sedgwick
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008

What makes someone a Christian? The way of life we call Christian is lived in relationships to others. Christian faith, understood as practical piety, calls for a life opened to the world at large, concerned for the “stranger” as well as for the neighbor. This exploration of morality...
Cover of Corporate Governance Ethics and CSR
by Justine Simpson, John R Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013

The rise of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is creating a paradigm shift in contemporary corporate culture and organizational behaviour with shareholder and stakeholder activism on the rise as international banking crises and global corporate scandals dominate the headlines. Through accountability...
Cover of On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic. By way of clarification and supplement to my last book Beyond Good and Evil

On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic. By way of clarification and supplement to my last book Beyond Good and Evil

A Polemic. By way of clarification and supplement to my last book Beyond Good and Evil

by Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 1997

On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. Nietzsche rewrites the former as a history of cruelty, exposing the 4entral values of the Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality, justice - as the product of a brutal process of...
Cover of The Moral Virtues and Theological Ethics, Second Edition
by Romanus Cessario, O.P.
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008

Since it was first published in 1991, The Moral Virtues and Theological Ethics has received praise from a wide range of commentators, both Catholic and Protestant. This second edition includes discussion of works that have appeared since the early 1990s, especially the first papal document to address...
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by Dave Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012

Ethical philosophy has a long and distinguished history, but how can you apply it to your life? This Practical Guide explores the alternative ethical philosophies and how we can all use these to aid us with everyday dilemmas. Introducing Ethics for Everyday Life provides advice on whether human beings...
Cover of The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics
by Arthur Schopenhauer, Christopher Janaway
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010

'my philosophy is like Thebes with a hundred gates: one can enter from all sides and through each gate arrive at the direct path to the centre' Schopenhauer's two essays On the Freedom of the Will and On the Basis of Morals form his complete system of ethics. Their doctrines, continuous with those...
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Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity

An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative

by Alasdair MacIntyre
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016

Alasdair MacIntyre explores some central philosophical, political and moral claims of modernity and argues that a proper understanding of human goods requires a rejection of these claims. In a wide-ranging discussion, he considers how normative and evaluative judgments are to be understood, how desire...
Cover of Robert Louis Stevenson's Ethics for Rascals
by Elayne Wareing Fitzpatrick
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000

ETHICS FOR RASCALS spotlights the romantic adventures, provocative ethics, and playful philosophy of the prince of storytellers, Robert Louis Stevenson, quixotic wanderer and prototype for Sir James M. Barries Peter Pan. This unique introduction to RLS and his spirited mate, Fanny Osbourne -- who...
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