Ethics category: 8196 books
Business Ethics
A Virtue Ethics and Common Good Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Can business activities and decisions be virtuous?
This is the first business ethics textbook to take a virtue ethics approach. It explains how virtue ethics compares with alternative approaches to business ethics, such as utilitarianism and deontology, and argues that virtue ethics best serves...
Systems Thinking and Moral Imagination
Rethinking Business Ethics with Patricia Werhane
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2019
This volume brings together a selection of papers written by Patricia Werhane during the most recent quarter century. The book critically explicates the direction and development of Werhane’s thinking based on her erudite and eclectic sampling of orthodox philosophical theories. It starts out with...
Doing Clinical Ethics
A Hands-on Guide for Clinicians and Others
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
In this Brief, Daniel Sokol interprets ‘doing medical ethics’ broadly to capture the application of ethical knowledge to a concrete situation, rather than just resolving a moral dilemma contained within a case. It instructs clinicians on how to identify and analyse a clinical ethics case,...
by Jack Marks
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Making the most of business ethics requires taking some proactive steps on the part of your business, but lucratively pays off. Business ethics is essential for most businesses operating in today's society. Social responsibility for businesses facilitates relations with clientele and the public in...
Just a Job?
Communication, Ethics, and Professional Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
From cartoons to boardrooms comes the statement, "It's not personal. It's just business." Just a Job? Communication, Ethics, and Professional Life offers a provocative perspective on ethics at work. The book questions the notions that doing ethics at work has to be work, and that work is...
Behavioural Economics and Business Ethics
Interrelations and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Economics and moral philosophy have in recent years been considered to be distinct and separate fields. However, behavioural economics has started to reconcile various aspects of morality and economics, which has offered new conceptual opportunities to advance economics ethics and business ethics.
This...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
For over a century the economics profession has extended its reach to encompass policy formation and institutional design while largely ignoring the ethical challenges that attend the profession's influence over the lives of others. Economists have proven to be disinterested in ethics. Embracing emotivism,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
This book features sixteen chapters written by distinguished scholars who collectively point to a roadmap for advancing business ethics education at a critical juncture in the history of corporate America. The editors frame the book with an introductory chapter that details a gold standard for delivering...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Many forms of Buddhism, divergent in philosophy and style, emerged as Buddhism filtered out of India into other parts of Asia. Nonetheless, all of them embodied an ethical core that is remarkably consistent. Articulated by the historical Buddha in his first sermon, this moral core is founded on the...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2011
Applying Care Ethics to Business is a multidisciplinary collection of original essays that explores the intersection between the burgeoning field of care ethics and business. Care ethics is an approach to morality that emphasizes relational, particularist, and affective dimensions of morality that...
Global Business Ethics
Responsible Decision Making in an International Context
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Corporate social responsibility, sustainability and acting ethically are all accepted business aims, but their meaning and implementation in a global context is far less clear-cut. Global Business Ethics cuts through the confusion to provide a coherent basis for ethical decision-making within the...
by Mohammed Ghaly
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Islamic Perspectives on the Principles of Biomedical Ethics presents results from a pioneering seminar in 2013 between Muslim religious scholars, biomedical scientists, and Western bioethicists at the research Center for Islamic Legislation & Ethics, Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies. By examining...
Ethics and Suffering since the Holocaust
Making Ethics "First Philosophy" in Levinas, Wiesel and Rubenstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
For many, the Holocaust made thinking about ethics in traditional ways impossible. It called into question the predominance of speculative ontology in Western thought, and left many arguing that Western political, cultural and philosophical inattention to universal ethics were both a cause and an...
Global Water Ethics
Towards a global ethics charter
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Scholarly interest in water ethics is increasing, motivated by the urgency of climate change, water scarcity, privatization and conflicts over water resources. Water ethics can provide both conceptual perspectives and practical methodologies for identifying outcomes which are environmentally sustainable...