Ethics and moral philosophy

This text provides perspectives on the way in which gender plays a role in leadership dynamics and ethics within organizations.

Hegel and Global Justice details the relevance of the thought of G.

The concept of religious freedom is the favoured modern human rights concept, with which the modern world hopes to tackle the phenomenon of religious pluralism, as our modern existence in an electronically shrinking globe comes to be increasingly characterised by this phenomenon.

Business cases are at the heart of business ethics as a discipline.

This book arises out of papers delivered at the World Congress of the International Society of Business, Economics and Ethics (ISBEE) held in Cape Town in 2008.

Does nature have intrinsic value?

Ever since Hart's The Concept of Law, legal philosophers agree that the practice of law-applying officials is a fundamental aspect of law.

This book develops a debate around responsible social inquiry into new racism.

Ethics in Psychiatry: (1) presents a comprehensive review of ethical issues arising in psychiatric care and research; (2) relates ethical issues to changes and challenges of society; (3) examines the application of general ethics to specific psychiatric problems and relates these to moral implications of psychiatry practice; (4) deals with recently arising ethical problems; (5) contains contributions of leading European ethicists, philosophers, lawyers, historians and psychiatrists; (6) provides a basis for the exploration of culture-bound influences on morals, manners and customs in the light of ethical principles of global validity.

Wim Vandekerckhove and Stan van Hooft The philosopher, Diogenes the Cynic, in the fourth century BCE, was asked where he came from and where he felt he belonged.

"e;Acceptable Risk"e; - On the Rationality (and Irrationality) of Emotional Evaluations of Risk What is "e;acceptable risk"e;?

In the late 1990s the idea of cross-sector collaborations was relatively new in Europe.

Many debates about the moral status of things-for example, debates about the natural rights of human fetuses or nonhuman animals-eventually migrate towards a discussion of the capacities of the things in question-for example, their capacities to feel pain, think, or love.

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Both the practitioner and academic communities have voiced strong opinions regarding the progress of women in reaching the executive suite and the corporate boardroom.

For centuries, certain moral philosophers have maintained that morality is an illusion, comparable to talking of ghosts or unicorns.

Metaethics is the inquiry into the nature of morality (or ethics, I use the words 'morality', 'morals', and 'ethics' as synonyms).

Contrasting with conventional Neo-Confucian attempts to recast the Confucian heritage in light of modern Western values, this book offers a Reconstructionist Confucian project to reclaim Confucian resources to meet contemporary moral and public policy challenges.

Indigenous Peoples, Consent and Benefit Sharing is the first in-depth account of the Hoodia bioprospecting case and use of San traditional knowledge, placing it in the global context of indigenous peoples' rights, consent and benefit-sharing.

Covering the ethical dimensions of international-level adaptation funding, a subject of growing interest in the climate change debate, this book provides a theoretical analysis of the ethical foundations of the UNFCCC regime on adaptation funding, one that culminates in the definition of a framework of justice.

The present volume is a continuation of the series Contemporary Philosophy.

With some exceptions, there is not a real interest in Islamic philosophy and t- ology in Western institutions today.

In recent decades there has been a great expansion in the number, size and influence of International Non-Governmental Organisations (INGOs) involved in international relief and development.

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Arne Johan Vetlesen Ours is the era of globalisation.

Most philosophers still like to feel that they have a special subject matter, well insulated from anything that the social scientists, and scientists in general, have to tell them.

This comprehensive presentation of Axel Hagerstrom (1868-1939) fills a void in nearly a century of literature, providing both the legal and political scholar and the non-expert reader with a proper introduction to the father of Scandinavian realism.

Nanotechnology has been the subject of extensive 'assessment hype,' unlike any previous field of research and development.

This book is an invitation to academic administrators, at every level, to engage in reflection on the ethical dimensions of their working lives.

Whereas science, technology, and medicine have all called forth dedicated philosophical investigations, a fourth major contributor to the technoscientific world in which we all live - that is, engineering - has been accorded almost none of the philosophical attention it deserves.

Kant's "e;Critique of Pure Reason"e; is so outstanding among modern philosophical works, that it can be termed "e;the"e; foundation of modern philosophy.

Changing preferencesis a phenomenonoften invoked but rarely properlyaccounted for.

Culture and Cultural Entities provides an original philosophical analysis of the nature and explanation of cultural phenomena, with special attention to ontology and methodology.

The potential of modern medicine in a pluralistic world leads to the potential for moral conflict.

Leonardo's Choice: Genetic Technologies and Animals is an edited collection of twelve essays and one dialogue focusing on the profound affect the use of animals in biotechnology is having on both humans and other species.

'Reprogen-Ethics and the Future of Gender' brings together three tightly related topics, which have so far been dealt separately in bioethics: assisted reproduction, enhancing and gender.

Over the last few decades information and communication technology has come to play an increasingly prominent role in our dealings with other people.

Western philosophy has long nurtured the hope to resolve moral controversies through reason; thereby to secure moral direction and human meaning without the need for a defining encounter with God or the transcendent.

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Most of the essays collected in this book were presented at the Charles S.

This work defines its course in reference to Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra.

Desde fines del siglo XVII, una idea inquietante circulaba en Gran Bretaña y algunos países vecinos: Inglaterra era la "región del spleen".

Firms, the most significant nucleus of modern economic activity, are very special social organisations with economic purposes and also a responsibility for pursuing the welfare of all ranks of society.

Fino a che punto l’uomo, grazie alla scienza e alla tecnologia, può migliorare se stesso, allungandosi la vita e potenziando le proprie funzioni fisiche e mentali?

Why trust science?

Can novels contribute to the ethical lives of readers?

This book engages with a radical critique of the modern state and the contemporary economic order: Alasdair MacIntyre's 'revolutionary Aristotelianism' project.

Emotions are two-sided.

Las respuestas de la Ética a los grandes retos del nuevo humanismo: la manipulación genética, el uso de la tecnología, la bioética y la ética ecológica, la ética política, los derechos de los animales, la sostenibilidad y el sistema económico globalizado.