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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Applied Ethics"”.
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Matters of character
… of character are central to both normative and applied ethics. Over the past 15 years or so, a growing number of philosophers have advanced empirically-based critiques of virtue ethics, arguing for skepticism about character. I show how standard approaches to virtue ethics can be modified so as …
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Making Ethics
… for that claim; afterwards, I put it to work in ethics, applied ethics, and legal theory.
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Health, ethics and society
… many disciplines (medicine, public health, applied ethics, political science, sociology and anthropology).
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An un-African thing? Same-sex relationships among South African Sangomas, Christian ethics and the discourse on African (protective) homophobia
… study is rooted within Systematic Theology and Ethics as it alludes how both Christian and African ethics promotes gender diversity. African Christian ethics, this study draws from the work of various theologians such as Samuel Waje Kunhiyop, “African Christian Ethics”, M.F. Murove, “African …
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Personhood, Collective Intention and Corporate Moral Responsibility
This study in applied ethics addresses whether the ontology of corporations as rights-bearing artificial legal persons allows them to be held morally responsible as unitary entities and members of the moral community, or if their status requires ascription of moral responsibility to reduce to their …
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Second thoughts about double effect.
… DDE, I maintain that intention is relevant to ethics in a different way than the one proposed by DDE. I conclude with two chapters in applied ethics. In the first of these I argue that DDE fails to explain why terrorism is impermissible. In the second I argue that DDE-related and DDE-based …
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Doing right by students: professional ethics for professors
Academic interest in professional ethics burgeoned during the 1970s and 1980s, subsequent to public awareness of ethical failures in law, medicine, business, and government. Only recently, however, did academics turn their attention to the ethics of the academy itself. New models of academic …
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Revamping the United States Organ Donation System: An Ethical Justification for Compensated Live Organ Donation
… controversial concept in the professional bioethics literature, and it has been labeled as unethical and illegal in many Western countries, including the United States.</p> <p>This dissertation utilizes arguments and principles from applied ethics, political philosophy, and behavioral …
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Between God and Man: Community's Place in Virtue, Practical Reason, and Transcendent Good
Talbot Brewer's Retrieval of Ethics and Robert Adams's Finite and Infinite Goods present distinct theories in ethics and metaethics. Brewer begins with the fundamental ethical perspective of the practical deliberator who experiences his practical deliberations as a continuous, unified, and …
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Why unavoidable moral wrongdoing is impossible
We can be faced with situations in which we act in accordance with the all-things-considered morally right course of action, and yet nevertheless experience an emotion of self-directed distress at the fact that we have so acted. Moreover, we have the intuition that this emotion is rational or …
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The Moral Psychology of Implicit Bias: Interpretations, Obligations, and Responsibilities
In recent years, psychologists have developed indirect measures to observe unconscious prejudices that diverge from the egalitarian views directly reported by test subjects. This unconscious prejudice is termed implicit bias. It has been used to scientifically explain a variety of broad social …
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Towards an architecture for teaching virtues, values and ethics
… an eventual curriculum about virtues, values and ethics. I address three sources of research: the voices of teachers who are teaching thinking and thinking skills; the authors who address the various themes and sub-themes emerging from the thesis questions; and an auto-ethnographical …
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Toward Better Knowledge: A Social Epistemology of Pragmatic Nonviolence
The dissertation takes as its central problem the priority and value of nonviolent and pragmatic social epistemology. Many concede the desirability of nonviolent problem solving, but quickly and unreflectively assent to violence when the imagination fails to procure viable alternatives. Moreover, …
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Corporate social responsibility and company performance : evidence from Sri Lanka
The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) developed in the Western world since the 1950s, is novel to developing countries. Various CSR principles, standards, frameworks and indices have grown significantly as researchers to expand the concept in business and academic worlds. The …
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Consumer reactions to corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Thailand : the moderating effect of competitive positioning
The aims of this study are twofold. First, it contributes to understanding the business case for CSR in developing countries by focusing on the consumer-organisational relationship. Second, this study replicates the conceptual framework of Du et al. (2007) to investigate the influences of the …
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The Challenge of Enhancement & Adaptability in Healthcare: An Ethical Framework for Organizations
… and finally formulate an organizational ethics framework for coping with the adaptability argument’s implications.</p>
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Ethical principles for a sensitive society
… fields of print, radio, television as well as ethics professors. Survey results found that 40 percent of respondents feel that media ethics are deteriorating, 40 percent feel media ethics are not deteriorating, and 20 percent are unsure if media ethics are deteriorating. The top three …
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Enhancing Quality Ethics Consultations in Pediatric Medicine
<p>Medical ethics consultations occur predominantly in the adult realm of medicine, alternatively in Pediatric Medicine there is a widespread lack of training and skilled professionals to service these requests. Most of the literature in pediatric ethics consultations revolves around mirroring …
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Mining and Community Development in Indonesia: a Case Study
Mining industries are widely perceived as damaging the environment and local communities. The Indonesian government requires mining industries to undertake Corporate Social Responsibility including community development activities. This study investigated the implementation of community development …
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Key Components for an Ethics Consultation Curriculum
… to a lack of formal credentials for clinical ethics consultants, the professionalization of clinical ethics as a normative discipline in contemporary American health care is diminished amongst other health care professionals. While medical specialties, organizational leadership positions, and …
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