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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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- 9783030635237, 9783030635237
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- The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics, 33
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- 636.089 ANI a
The Ethics of Vaccination
This open access book discusses individual, collective, and institutional responsibilities with regard to vaccination from the perspective of philosophy and public health ethics. It addresses the issue of what it means for a collective to be morally responsible for the realisation of herd immunity and what the implications of collective responsibility are for individual and institutional respon…
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- 9783030020682
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Rethinking Moral Status
Common-sense morality implicitly assumes that reasonably clear distinctions can be drawn between the ‘full’ moral status usually attributed to ordinary adult humans, the partial moral status attributed to non-human animals, and the absence of moral status, usually ascribed to machines and other artefacts. These assumptions were always subject to challenge; but they now come under renewed pr…
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- 9780192894076
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Ethics for Radiation Protection in Medicine
This book presents an up to date ethical framework for radiological protection in medicine. It is consistent with the requirements of the system of radiation protection and with the expectations of medical ethics. It presents an approach rooted in the medical tradition, and alert to contemporary social expectations. It provides readers with a practical framework against which they can assess th…
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- 9781351372497
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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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- 978-3-319-18332-9
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- International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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Responsible Innovation Business Opportunities and Strategies for Implementation
This Open Access book, Responsible innovation provides benefits for society, for instance more sustainable products, more engagement with consumers and less anxiety about emerging technologies. As a governance tool it is mostly driven by research funders, including the European Commission, under the term “responsible research and innovation” (RRI). To achieve uptake in private industry is a…
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Otto Bauer (1881-1938) Thinker and Politician
Gegenstand des Buches ist die Darstellung Otto Bauers als führende Gestalt des Austromarxismus und der SDAP, sowie die kritisch-analytische Lesart seiner philosophisch-historischen, wirtschaftlichen, soziologischen und sozialpolitischen Theorien, die vor dem Hintergrund der damaligen Diskussion in der II. und der III. Internationale, der politischen Ereignisse in der SDAP, der internationalen …
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- 9789004325838
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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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