Ethics category: 8196 books
by Javier Aranzadi
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
In the economical changing and political disturbing times we are living a question concerns us all: Is this the society I want to live in? What are the opportunities I have to pursue in my socio-cultural environment? Which echoes the ancient Greek ethical questions: What is the best city to live...
A Communion of Subjects
Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
A Communion of Subjects is the first comparative and interdisciplinary study of the conceptualization of animals in world religions. Scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including Thomas Berry (cultural history), Wendy Doniger (study of myth), Elizabeth Lawrence (veterinary medicine, ritual...
Rebirth and the Stream of Life
A Philosophical Study of Reincarnation, Karma and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Rebirth and the Stream of Life explores the diversity as well as the ethical and religious significance of rebirth beliefs, focusing especially on Hindu and Buddhist traditions but also discussing indigenous religions and ancient Greek thought. Utilizing resources from religious studies, anthropology...
Animal Lessons
How They Teach Us to Be Human
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
Philosophy reads humanity against animality, arguing that "man" is man because he is separate from beast. Deftly challenging this position, Kelly Oliver proves that, in fact, it is the animal that teaches us to be human. Through their sex, their habits, and our perception of their purpose,...
Corporate social responsibility standard - Pros and Cons
Pros and Cons
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2008
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Business economics - Business Ethics, Corporate Ethics, grade: 1,3, University of applied sciences Frankfurt a. M., course: Master of Business Administration, 15 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This paper deals with the concept...
Unfolding Stakeholder Thinking
Theory, Responsibility and Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This book – the first of a two-volume series – argues that, today, stakeholder thinking has evolved into the study of interactive, mutually engaged and responsive relationships that establish the very context of doing modern business, and create the groundwork for transparency and accountability.
This...
Stakeholder Management. The Sustainable Management of Nestlé's Cocoa Supply Chain in the Ivory Coast
Stakeholder Management. The Sustainable Management of Nestlé's Cocoa Supply Chain in the Ivory Coast
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Business economics - Business Ethics, Corporate Ethics, grade: 3, University of Wuppertal (Schumpeter school of business), course: CSR, language: English, abstract: Stakeholder Management with long-term sustainability is decisive in determining whether a business...
by Jürgen Habermas
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
In this important book Habermas develops his views on a range of moral and ethical issues. Drawing on his theory of communicative action, Habermas elaborates an original conception of 'discourse ethics', seeking to reconstruct a moral point of view from which normative claims can be impartially judged.
Habermas...
Borders and Debordering
Topologies, Praxes, Hospitableness
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
Borders / Debordering: Topologies, Praxes, Hospitableness engages from interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives some of the most important issues of the present, which lay at the intersection of physical, epistemological, spiritual, and existential borders. The book addresses a variety of...
Ethical Leadership and Decision Making in Education
Applying Theoretical Perspectives to Complex Dilemmas
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
The fourth edition of the best-selling text, Ethical Leadership and Decision Making in Education, continues to address the increasing interest in ethics and assists educational leaders with the complex dilemmas in today’s challenging and diverse society. Through discussion and analysis of real-life...
Mainstreaming Torture
Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 reopened what many people in America had long assumed was a settled ethical question: Is torture ever morally permissible? Within days, some began to suggest that, in these new circumstances, the new answer was "yes." Rebecca Gordon argues that September...
Green Logic
Ecopreneurship, Theory and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Economic activity imposes increasing costs on the global environment. The lack of progress being made in environmental management is often not as much a question of economics, technology or even of interest, as it is of perception, assumptions and how one approaches problems. Green Logic seeks to...
by Giulio Sapelli
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
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. This requires moral commitment at a subjective and collective level, i.e. ethics. In this book,...
Human Action in Business
Praxiological and Ethical Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Praxiology deals with working and doing from the point of view of effectiveness. It has three components: analysis of concepts involving purposive actions; critique of modes of action from the viewpoint of efficiency; and normative advisory aspects in recommendations for increasing human efficiency....