Philosophy and Ethics: New ResearchIn a world of seemingly never-ending technological advances, questions of ethics take on even more significance than in the past. Conflicts of interest abound and pressure mounts at every turn for more profits, higher incomes, power and instant gratification leads to the temptation to ignore questions of ethics. This book presents new and interesting research on ethical issues in the modern day. |
Contents
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ETHICAL CONCERN FOR THE DISTANT AND THE ABSENT | 115 |
FROM THE ONTOLOGY OF TEMPORALITY TO THE ETHICS OF THE FUTURE CARE AND RESPONSIBILITY IN HANS JONAS | 133 |
CONCEPTUAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MORALITY AND ETHICS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR A CONTEMPORARY ETHICS BASE... | 159 |
MIMESIS AS AN EMBODIED IMAGINATIVE ACT THE PARADOX OF TRAGEDY AND EMPATHIC MORALITY | 171 |
ETHICAL ISSUES RAISED BY TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE HOW SHOULD MANAGERS RESPOND? | 219 |
A STAKEHOLDER BASED METHOD FOR BUSINESS ETHICS | 233 |
THE CONCEPT OF A PERSON AND THE SALE OF ORGANS | 249 |
MACHIAVELLIANISM HOW DO TODAYS INDONESIAN STUDENTS COMPARE WITH US STUDENTS OF TODAY AND THE 1960S? | 267 |
A DEFENSE OF EUDAIMONIST EGOISM | 275 |
THE CASUAL CLOSURE ARGUMENT | 293 |
PERCEPTIONS OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS A NATIONAL SURVEY OF PRODUCERS AND THE PUBLIC | 305 |
A NEW PARADIGM FOR UNDERSTANDING CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IN CLINICAL TRIALS | 319 |
INDEX | 343 |
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Page 252 - Though the earth, and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person. This no body has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his.
Page 252 - To understand political power aright, and derive it from its original, we must consider what state all men are naturally in, and that is a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.
Page 154 - Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end.
Page 257 - Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always at the same time as an end and never simply as a means.21 We now want to see whether this can be carried out in practice.
Page 4 - Trust (or, symmetrically, distrust) is a particular level of the subjective probability with which an agent assesses that another agent or group of agents will perform a particular action, both before he can monitor such action (or independently of his capacity ever to be able to monitor it) and in a context in which it affects his own action.
Page 4 - When we say we trust someone or that someone is trustworthy, we implicitly mean that the probability that he will perform an action that is beneficial or at least not detrimental to us is high enough for us to consider engaging in some form of cooperation with him".
Page 173 - The truth of this second point is shown by experience : though the objects themselves may be painful to see, we delight to view the most realistic representations of them in art, the forms for example of the lowest animals and of dead bodies.
Page 252 - The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one; and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions...
Page 256 - I ought never to act except in such a way that I can also will that my maxim should become a universal law.