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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Moral obligation"”.
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Understanding a Woman's Moral Obligation to her Fetus: Maternal-Fetal Conflict as a Covenant Relationship
… dissertation is: what is the pregnant woman's moral obligation to her fetus when a cesarean section is recommended to save the life of or to prevent serious harm to her term viable fetus? The pregnant woman's life is not endangered.</p><p> Inconsistencies exist between normative theories and …
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Obligation as a relationship antecedent: A qualitative case study of the Las Vegas community
… concept of relationship antecedents, suggesting moral obligation as a non-consequential relationship antecedent. By using Bivins's (2009) classification of moral and functional obligations, this research suggests that nonprofit managers perceive a moral obligation on the part of gaming …
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A Care Ethical Theory of Political Obligation
The ethics of care – an approach in moral philosophy with feminist roots – understands care not just as a social phenomenon (as a type of action, relationship, or practice), but also as a crucial moral value. This thesis draws on the ethics of care to explore the question of political obligation: …
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The Ethical Accountability of Organizational Leadership to Communities of Stakeholders in Healthcare
… so by examining the healthcare organization’s moral agency in relation to stakeholder theory and applies those considerations to three major stakeholder categories: confidentiality and privacy of healthcare information, research and attention to specific pediatric populations, and ethics of …
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The Case For Cultural Proficiency For Teachers Of Students Of Color Who Live In Poverty: A Policy Advocacy Document
… with instruction but rather because it is a moral obligation of schools. </p>
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Assessing determinants of social entrepreneurial intentions among MBA students in Windhoek
… social entrepreneurial self-efficacy (SESE) and moral obligation are other significant predictors of SEI. All variables had good reliable internal consistency of above .7, showing an acceptable reliability of items used. Personal attitude, social entrepreneurial self-efficacy, perceived social …
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A Mutli-institutional Investigation into Cheating on Tests in College Online Courses
… As suggested by Brown and Emmett (2001), moral obligation was also added to the predictors. An online survey sent to 5 two-year and 5 four-year colleges was used to obtain student self-report data for the study. Perceived behavioral control and moral obligation were both found to be …
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Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Perspectives
… is a perfect duty. The global community has a moral obligation to act decisively in the face of extreme human rights abuses. There are two contrasting theoretical perspectives regarding international relations and humanitarian intervention: statism and cosmopolitanism. These contrasting …
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Character education through secondary school literature classes
… are disconnected from society and feel little moral obligation or responsibility to others. While American public schools traditionally taught values and ethics, most no longer do so in any consistent or systematic fashion; This thesis will defend a synthesis of the thinking of certain …
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Effects Of Eliminating The Cap On The Number of Participants in the Statewide Parental Choice Program
… the cost of funding the additional program, the moral obligation to educate neediest students, and grading school performance. Policy recommendation includes, leave remaining enrollment cap in place, create a universal screener to grade schools, create a matrix to rank schools, and limit …
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Adopting Obligations: Duties to Existing Children
… argues that infertile prospective parents have a moral obligation to adopt rather than pursue ARTs (Assisted Reproductive Technology). The first chapter presents the negative argument against the common desire among prospective parents for a genetically related child. After refuting the five most …
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Understanding Playground Behaviors And Injury Potential To Elementary Children
… The cost of increased insurance premiums and a moral obligation to protect children on a playground while at recess increase liability exposures for a school district. This study explored the behaviors exhibited by elementary school children and playground monitors and the subsequent occurrence …
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Notes from a captive : on improvisation, ethical communication and being held hostage
… capacity, combined with an awareness of moral obligation to others—to be good persons (Christians, 2002)—provides a jazz like opportunity for creative engagement; a dynamic and potent possibility that demands awareness of and attentiveness to the other, but which is open-ended.
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Exploring Factors Influencing Employer Attitudes and Practices toward Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the New River Valley
… on the basis of economic efficiency or profit, moral obligation to fairness and justice, adherence to legal requirements, or leader influence. I addressed these concerns through population data analysis, key informant interviews, and a survey of major local employers. I found that New River …
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Waterfront developments in the Middle East case study : the Golden Horn Project, Istanbul, Turkey
… and continuity to the water's edge becomes a moral obligation as well as a practical need to protect rest of its fabric from the repercussions of overloading. A performance specification is put forward to integrate the development back into the life of the city. Formally, urban waterfronts in …
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Conceptualising morality and moral order: moral transformations in Russia, 1976 to 2021
… is driven by the research question: what are the moral transformations in Russia from the late Soviet period to the present? In order to answer that question, the study is organised around three themes and contributions. First, the thesis develops a conceptualisation of morality. It undertakes a …
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The determinants of tax evasion amongst small and medium - sized enterprises (SMEs): Evidence from Limpopo Province, South Africa
… system, fiscal inequality, and the absence of moral responsibility. The OLS regression analysis found meaningful positive relationships between tax evasion and factors like the likelihood of detection, the layout of the tax rate schedule, perceived fairness of taxes, and fiscal inequality. …
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Shared Words, Divided Worlds: Moral Language and the Struggle for Meaning at the Claremont Colleges During the Vietnam War, 1965-1969
… struggle over the meaning and ownership of moral and political language. Rather than interpreting antiwar and prowar activism as expressions of fundamentally opposed value systems, this study argues that students and administrators alike engaged in an ongoing contest to define ideals such as …
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Autonomy, Paternalism, and the Moral Foundations of the Fiduciary Relationship
… threatened by at least two conceptual problems: moral-legal equivocation and paternalism. Legal-moral equivocation refers to the problem of assuming that the normative demands of a legal relationship are also morally normative. The cogent use of the fiduciary relationship in bioethical analysis …
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