Ethics category: 8196 books
The Good in the Right
A Theory of Intuition and Intrinsic Value
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
This book represents the most comprehensive account to date of an important but widely contested approach to ethics--intuitionism, the view that there is a plurality of moral principles, each of which we can know directly. Robert Audi casts intuitionism in a form that provides a major alternative...
The Ethics of Time
A Phenomenology and Hermeneutics of Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The Ethics of Time utilizes the resources of phenomenology and hermeneutics to explore this under-charted field of philosophical inquiry. Its rigorous analyses of such phenomena as waiting, memory, and the body are carried out phenomenologically, as it engages in a hermeneutical reading of such classical...
Ethics in Public Health and Health Policy
Concepts, Methods, Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Ethical issues associated with public health and health policy--related, for example, to pandemic plans and vaccination policies (c.f. SARS or pandemic influenza), preventive measures like screening (e.g. for breast cancer or dementia) or health information campaigns, social inequalities or health...
Ethics, Money and Sport
This Sporting Mammon
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Written from the contrasting yet complementary perspectives of sociology and philosophy, this book explores the far-reaching ethical consequences of the runaway commodification of sport, focusing on those instances where commodification gives rise to morally undesirable consequences. The authors consider...
The illusion of objectivity, the question of ethics, or give the right support
How can organizations provide the employees with the necessary support for ethical behaviour in companies?
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2006
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Business economics - Business Ethics, Corporate Ethics, grade: 2, 85%, University of Applied Sciences Chur (SSTH Swiss School of Tourism and Hospitality, Chur), course: MBA, 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The topic of this...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
This volume provides an overview of the most recent developments in empirical investigations of morality and assesses their impact and importance for ethical thinking. It involves contributions of scholars both from philosophy, theology and empirical sciences with firm standings in their own disciplines,...
International Management Ethics
A Critical, Cross-cultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
What can we learn about management ethics from other cultures and societies? In this textbook, cross-cultural management theory is applied and made relevant to management ethics. To help the reader understand different approaches that global businesses can take to operate successfully and ethically,...
Ethics at the End of Life
New Issues and Arguments
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
The 14 chapters in Ethics at the End of Life: New Issues and Arguments, all published here for the first time, focus on recent thinking in this important area, helping initiate issues and lines of argument that have not been explored previously. At the same time, a reader can use this volume to...
Making the Military Moral
Contemporary Challenges and Responses in Military Ethics Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This book offers a critical analysis, both theoretical and practical, of ethics education in the military.
In the twenty-first century, it has become increasingly important to ensure that the armed forces of Western and other democracies fight justly and behave ethically. The ‘good soldier’...
Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility
The New Language of Global Bioethics and Biolaw
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
A novel and multidisciplinary exposition and theorization of human dignity and rights, brought to bear on current issues in bioethics and biolaw.
“Human dignity” has been enshrined in international agreements and national constitutions as a fundamental human right. The World Medical Association...
Engineering the Climate
The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management discusses the ethical issues associated with deliberately engineering a cooler climate to combat global warming. Climate engineering (also known as geoengineering) has recently experienced a surge of interest given the growing likelihood...
Engineering Ethics
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Engineering Ethics: Challenges and Opportunities aims to set a new agenda for the engineering profession by developing a key challenge: can the great technical innovation of engineering be matched by a corresponding innovation in the acceptance and expression of ethical responsibility? Central features...
The Codification of Medical Morality
Historical and Philosophical Studies of the Formalization of Western Medical Morality in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Volume One: Medical Ethics and Etiquette in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The editors have incurred many debts in preparing this book, and both etiquette and ethics would be contravened if they were not discharged here. Above all, we wish to thank the contributors for so cheerfully complying with our suggestions for preparing their papers for publication and efficiently...
by Paul Scherz
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
There is a growing crisis in scientific research characterized by failures to reproduce experimental results, fraud, lack of innovation, and burn-out. In Science and Christian Ethics, Paul Scherz traces these problems to the drive by governments and business to make scientists into competitive entrepreneurs...