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The Spiritual Dimension of Business Ethics and Sustainability Management
This book discloses the spiritual dimension in business ethics and sustainability management. Spirituality is understood as a multiform search for meaning which connects people with all living beings and God or Ultimate Reality. In this sense, spirituality is a vital source in social and economic life. The volume examines the spiritual orientations to nature and business in different cultural t…
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- 978-3-319-11677-8
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Enacting Dismal Science New Perspectives on the Performativity of Economics
In this book, sociologists, philosophers, and economists investigate the conceptual issues around the performativity of economics over a variety of disciplinary contexts and provide new case studies illuminating this phenomenon. In featuring the latest contributions to the performativity debate the book revives discussion of the fundamental questions: What precise meaning can we attribute to th…
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- 978-1-137-48876-3
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- 5 b/w illustrations
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The Welfare of Performing Animals A Historical Perspective
This timely book describes and analyses a neglected area of the history of concern for animal welfare, discussing the ends and means of the capture, transport, housing and training of performing animals, as well as the role of pressure groups, politics, the press and vested interests. It examines primary source material of considerable interdisciplinary interest, and addresses the influence of …
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- 2
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- 978-3-662-45834-1
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Health, Rights and Dignity : Philosophical Reflections On An Alleged Human Right
The idea that there is such a thing as a human right to health has become pervasive. It has not only been acknowledged by a variety of international law documents and thus entered the political realm but is also defended in academic circles. Yet, despite its prominence the human right to health remains something of a mystery— especially with respect to its philosophical underpinnings. Address…
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- 9783110319262
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- 100 ERK h
Why Be Moral?
What reasons do we have to be moral, and are these reasons more compelling than the reasons we have to pursue non-moral projects? Ever since the Sophists first raised this question, it has been a focal point of debate. Why be Moral? is a collection of new essays on this fundamental philosophical problem, written by an international team of leading scholars in the field.
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- 9783110366396
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- 278 halaman
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- 100 LOU w
After Confucius : Studies in Early Chinese Philosophy
After Confucius is a collection of eight studies of Chinese philosophy from the time of Confucius to the formation of the empire in the second and third centuries B.C.E. As detailed in a masterful introduction, each essay serves as a concrete example of "thick description" an approach invented by philosopher Gilbert Ryle, which aims to reveal the logic that informs an observable exchange among …
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- 9780824828424
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- 100 GOL a
Animals in Our Midst: The Challenges of Co-existing with Animals in the Anthr…
This Open Access book brings together authoritative voices in animal and environmental ethics, who address the many different facets of changing human-animal relationships in the Anthropocene. As we are living in complex times, the issue of how to establish meaningful relationships with other animals under Anthropocene conditions needs to be approached from a multitude of angles. This book offe…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9783030635237, 9783030635237
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- 579
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- The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics, 33
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- 636.089 ANI a
Education and Ethics in the Life Sciences : Strengthening the Prohibition of …
At the start of the twenty-first century, warnings have been raised in some quarters about how – by intent or by mishap – advances in biotechnology and related fields could aid the spread of disease. Science academics, medical organisations, governments, security analysts, and others are among those that have sought to raise concern. Education and Ethics in the Life Sciences examines a vari…
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- 9781921666391
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- Practical Ethics and Public Policy
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- 370 RAP e
A Critical Examination of Ethics in Health Care and Biomedical Research: Voic…
This book is a critical examination of certain basic issues and themes crucial to understanding how ethics currently interfaces with health care and biomedical research. Beginning with an overview of the field, it proceeds through a delineation of such key notions as trust and uncertainty, dialogue involving talk and listening, the vulnerability of the patient against the asymmetric power of th…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-18332-9
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- International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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- 301 ZAN c
On Moral Capital
This book promotes the original concept of “Moral Capital” as the key to analyzing the nature and function of morality in economic activities. The book is divided into three major sections. In the first, the author argues that the logical connections between morality and economy and those between morality and profit provide a concrete theoretical basis for the concept of moral capital. In t…
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- 978-3-662-45543-2
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- XI, 266
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