Ethics category: 8196 books
Moral Theory at the Movies
An Introduction to Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Moral Theory at the Movies provides students with a wonderfully approachable introduction to ethics. The book incorporates film summaries and study questions to draw students into ethical theory and then pairs them with classical philosophical texts. The students see how moral theories, dilemmas,...
by Philip Banyard, Cara Flanagan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
How do we know right from wrong, good from bad, help from hindrance, and how can we judge the behaviour of others?
Ethics are the rules and guidelines that we use to make such judgements. Often there are no clear answers, which make this subject both interesting and potentially frustrating....
Chiasmatic Encounters
Art, Ethics, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
The concept of chiasm has played major role in continental philosophy, where it has referred to various phenomenological and hermeneutic structures of reversibility, intertwining, and encounter. In Chiasmatic Encounters: Art, Ethics, Politics, fourteen international contributors representing various...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This collection of essays represents the work produced in the course of a three-year project funded by the Commission of the European Communities under the Biomed I programme, on the ethics of genetic screening, entitled 'Genetic screening: ethical and philosophical perspectives, with special reference...
Ethics, Norms and the Narratives of War
Creating and Encountering the Enemy Other
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
This book examines the ethics and values that render a war discourse normative, and features the stories of American soldiers who fought in the Iraq War to show how this narrative can change.
The invasion of Iraq, launched in March 2003, was led by the United States under the now discredited...
Matters of Care
Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
To care can feel good, or it can feel bad. It can do good, it can oppress. But what is care? A moral obligation? A burden? A joy? Is it only human? In Matters of Care, María Puig de la Bellacasa presents a powerful challenge to conventional notions of care, exploring its significance as an ethical...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Can war be morally justified? What is the philosophy behind armed conflict? How do you conduct an ethical war? And what guides military action as the nature of conflict changes over time? Based on a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) designed for both military personnel and non-specialists across the...
Tantric Ethics
An Explanation of the Precepts for Buddhist Vajrayana Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Tantra, or Vajrayana, Buddhism is a set of esoteric practices that involve mantra recitation and complex visualizations. Tantra constitutes the fabric of a Tibetan Buddhist's daily practice, but no practice of tantra can be successful without adherence to the tantric precepts, the highest of three...
Law, Ethics and Compromise at the Limits of Life
To Treat or not to Treat?
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
A conflict arises in the clinic over the care of a critically ill, incapacitated patient. The clinicians and the patient’s family confront a difficult choice: to treat or not to treat? Decisions to withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment feature frequently in the courts and in the world's...
by Inmaculada de Melo-Martín
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Each year, roughly a million new cases of cancer appear in the US, and more than 500,000 Americans die annually of premature death. Although medical progress has slowed cancer mortality, its incidence is increasing roughly six times faster than cancer mortality is decreasing. Breast cancer, in particular,...
Food Business and the Global Water Challenge
Exploring the Link between Food Business, Environmental Stakeholders, Farmers, and Water Resources
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject Business economics - Business Ethics, Corporate Ethics, grade: 1,7, University of Hohenheim (Institut für Agrarpolitik und Landwirtschaftliche Marktlehre), course: Management in der Ernährungswirtschaft, language: English, abstract: In many ways water...
Military Ethics and Virtues
An Interdisciplinary Approach for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
This book examines the role of military virtues in today's armed forces.
Although long-established military virtues, such as honor, courage and loyalty, are what most armed forces today still use as guiding principles in an effort to enhance the moral behavior of soldiers, much depends on whether...
by Catholic Health Alliance of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
The goal of the Health Ethics Guide is threefold: 1. to remind readers of the fundamental commitment within the Catholic tradition to the ministry of caring for those who are sick and suffering; 2. to articulate the values and principles found within that tradition by providing guidelines for ethical...
Eco-Republic
What the Ancients Can Teach Us about Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
An ecologically sustainable society cannot be achieved without citizens who possess the virtues and values that will foster it, and who believe that individual actions can indeed make a difference. Eco-Republic draws on ancient Greek thought--and Plato's Republic in particular--to put forward a new...