Ethics category: 8196 books
Medical Ethics in Antiquity
Philosophical Perspectives on Abortion and Euthanasia
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The idea of reviewing the ethical concerns of ancient medicine with an eye as to how they might instruct us about the extremely lively disputes of our own contemporary medicine is such a natural one that it surprises us to real ize how very slow we have been to pursue it in a sustained way_ Ideologues...
Blind Spots
Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
When confronted with an ethical dilemma, most of us like to think we would stand up for our principles. But we are not as ethical as we think we are. In Blind Spots, leading business ethicists Max Bazerman and Ann Tenbrunsel examine the ways we overestimate our ability to do what is right and how...
Business Ethics
A Case Study Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
An important guide for senior management on structuring an organization to promote ethical behavior and enhance performance
Designed for senior leaders of organizations–boards of directors; C-level executives; trustees; managing partners; government officials; and anyone tasked with a duty–Business...
Beyond Integrity
A Judeo-Christian Approach to Business Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Integrity is essential to Judeo-Christian business ethics. But today’s business environment is complex. Those in business, and those preparing to enter the business world, need to grapple with the question of how integrity and biblical ethics can be applied in the workplace. They need to go “beyond...
Introducing Ethics
A Graphic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
What is the place of individual choice and consequence in a post-Holocaust world of continuing genocidal ethnic cleansing? Is "identity" now a last-ditch cultural defence of ethnic nationalisms and competing fundamentalisms? In a climate of instant information, free markets and possible...
One World Now
The Ethics of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
One World Now seamlessly integrates major developments of the past decade into Peter Singer's classic text on the ethics of globalization, One World. Singer, often described as the world's most influential philosopher, here addresses such essential concerns as climate change, economic globalization,...
Counseling Ethics for the 21st Century
A Case-Based Guide to Virtuous Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Counseling Ethics for the 21st Century prepares students to address ethical issues arising in contemporary counseling practice. Drawing on their own clinical and practical experiences, authors Elliot D. Cohen and Gale Spieler Cohen present detailed, realistic, and engaging clinical case studies along...
by Aristotle
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2014
Aristotle's celebrated work setting forth his system of moral philosophy is preceded by a survey of his life, writings, and understanding of ethics.
On Ethics and History
Essays and Letters of Zhang Xuecheng
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Zhang Xuecheng (1738–1801) has primarily been read as a philosopher of history. This volume presents him as an ethical philosopher with a distinctive understanding of the aims and methods of Confucian self-cultivation. Offered in English translation for the first time, this collection of Zhang's...
by Patrick Henz
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Can a geometric figure and a 1970's theory still be relevant for us today? The book analyzes this question and presents that especially because of its simplicity and clear logic, Donald Cressey's Fraud Triangle has not lost anything from its relevance.
As criminologist he developed the triangle...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
The editors of Ethics at the Cinema invited a diverse group of moral philosophers and philosophers of film to engage with ethical issues raised within, or within the process of viewing, a single film of each contributor's choice. The result is a unique collection of considerable breadth. Discussions...
Nietzsche and Levinas
"After the Death of a Certain God"
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The essays that Jill Stauffer and Bettina Bergo collect in this volume locate multiple affinities between the philosophies of Nietzsche and Levinas. Both philosophers question the nature of subjectivity and the meaning of responsibility after the "death of God." While Nietzsche poses the...
Authorial Ethics
How Writers Abuse Their Calling
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Authorial Ethics is a normative study that deals with the many ways in which writers abuse their commitment to truth and integrity. It is divided by academic discipline and includes chapters on journalism, history, literature, art, psychology, and science, among others. Robert Hauptman offers generalizations...
by Brad Inwood
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
The earliest philosophers thought deeply about ethical questions, but Aristotle founded ethics as a well-defined discipline. Brad Inwood focuses on the reception of Aristotelian ethical thought in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds and explores the thinker's influence on the philosophers who followed in his footsteps from 300 BCE to 200 CE.