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Confucian Relationism and Global Ethics
Environmental disasters, unequal distribution of resources, viral pandemics, and other types of trans-national disasters, are global crises that cannot be solved within the narrow framework of individual nation-states. They must be addressed through global cooperation and solidarity. Such strategies require intercultural dialog that goes beyond fashionable slogans and can lead to a truly equal …
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- 978-90-04-54564-9
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- East Asian Comparative Literature and Culture, Volume: 13
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Kantian Ethics and the Attention Economy : Duty and Distraction
In this open access book, Timothy Aylsworth and Clinton Castro draw on the deep well of Kantian ethics to argue that we have moral duties, both to ourselves and to others, to protect our autonomy from the threat posed by the problematic use of technology. The problematic use of technologies like smartphones threatens our autonomy in a variety of ways, and critics have only begun to appreciate t…
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- 978-3-031-45638-1
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- XIX, 275
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Ḥadīth and Ethics through the Lens of Interdisciplinarity
This volume addresses the interplay of ḥadīth and ethics and contributes to examining the emerging field of ḥadīth-based ethics. The chapters cover four different sections: noble virtues ( makārim al-akhlāq) and virtuous acts ( faḍāʾil al-aʿmāl); concepts ( adab, taḥbīb, ʿuzla); disciplines ( ḥadīth transmission, gender ethics); and individual and key traditions (the ḥad…
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- Volume: 5
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- 978-90-04-52593-1
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The Moral Implications of Human and Animal Vulnerability
In this open access book, Angela K. Martin thoroughly addresses what human and animal vulnerability are, how and why they matter from a moral point of view, and how they compare to each other. By first defining universal and situational human vulnerability, Martin lays the groundwork for investigating whether sentient nonhuman animals can also qualify as vulnerable beings. She then takes a clos…
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- 978-3-031-25078-1
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- VIII, 193
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Ethics and Drug Resistance: Collective Responsibility for Global Public Health
This Open Access volume provides in-depth analysis of the wide range of ethical issues associated with drug-resistant infectious diseases. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is widely recognized to be one of the greatest threats to global public health in coming decades; and it has thus become a major topic of discussion among leading bioethicists and scholars from related disciplines including eco…
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- 978-3-030-27874-8
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- XVII, 448
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- Public Health Ethics Analysis
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Islamic Ethics and Incidental Findings : Genomic Morality Beyond the Secular …
This open access book offers unique insights into the key ethical issues faced by practitioners and discussed by ethicists in the field of genomics and incidental findings, with a focus on the Islamic moral tradition. Embark on an enlightening exploration of key ethical challenges in genomics and incidental findings, uniquely tailored to the context of the Muslim Arab world. Following the regi…
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- 978-3-031-59405-2
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- X, 95
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- SpringerBriefs in Ethics (BRIEFSETHIC)
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AI Ethics in Higher Education: Insights from Africa and Beyond
This open access book tackles the pressing problem of integrating concerns related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics into higher education curriculums aimed at future AI developers in Africa and beyond. For doing so, it analyzes the present and future states of AI ethics education in local computer science and engineering programs. The authors share relevant best practices and use cases fo…
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- 978-3-031-23035-6
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- V, 101
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- SpringerBriefs in Ethics (BRIEFSETHIC)
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Business Ethics and Critical Consultant Jokes : New Research Methods to Study…
This open access book offers four ways to enrich traditional research methods in business ethics. By looking at critical jokes and cartoons on management consultants, their business practice and their clients’ demands, many ethical transgressions in business get addressed. By illustrating and criticizing such transgression, jokes can serve as an example in a theoretical argument, as a prompt …
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- 978-3-031-10201-1
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- XIII, 101
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- SpringerBriefs in Ethics (BRIEFSETHIC)
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Implementing Responsible Research and Innovation : Organisational and Nationa…
This open access book offers a unique and practically oriented study of organisational and national conditions for implementing Responsible Research Innovation (RRI) policies and practices. It gives the reader a thorough understanding of the different aspects of RRI, and of barriers and drivers of implementation of RRI related policies. It shows how different organisational and national context…
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- 978-3-030-57850-3
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- XIX, 120
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- SpringerBriefs in Ethics (BRIEFSETHIC)
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Human Challenge Studies in Endemic Settings : Ethical and Regulatory Issues
This open access book provides an extensive review of ethical and regulatory issues related to human infection challenge studies, with a particular focus on the expansion of this type of research into endemic settings and/or low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Human challenge studies (HCS) involve the intentional infection of research participants, and this type of research is rapidly inc…
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- 978-3-030-41480-1
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- XVII, 134
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- SpringerBriefs in Ethics (BRIEFSETHIC)
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