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"Morality Policy" published on by Oxford University Press.

Discusses "the morality of fear," revisiting & revising the general understanding of the concept of morality & its foundation in intrinsic & universal value. The morality of fear is produced by the privileging of vulnerability & thus security over other interests as the structural bases of society. The morality of fear has been endorsed as a mode of morality by such social philosophers as Hobbes & Gracian, a partial & dysfunctional mode that should be countered by other interests such as honesty, courage, & self-actualization. K. Coddon

AbstractIt is commonly believed that the moral norms of "everyday" or "traditional" morality apply uniformly in all business contexts. However, Joseph Heath has recently argued that this is not the case. According to Heath, the norms of everyday morality apply with respect to "administered" transactions but not "market" transactions. Market transactions are, he argues, governed by a distinct, "adversarial" morality. In this article, I argue that Heath's attempt to show that competitive contexts are governed by a distinct, adversarial morality does not succeed. I then undertake the task of showing that, contrary to what is commonly thought, competitive actions can be reconciled with the norms of traditional morality.

(Originally published in the Zeitschrift fur sozialforschung [1933, 2, 2, 162-195]). An examination of the relationship between materialism, as developed by Karl Marx, & morality, as developed by Immanuel Kant, in recent philosophical discourse. Attention is given specifically to the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Bergson, & Sigmund Freud. Materialism sees morality in terms not of transcendant authority but of the lives of concrete individuals affected by it. In the present age, moral sentiments take two main forms: compassion & politics. While neither is obligatory, both are productive forces historically related to bourgeois morality. These forms do not emerge, however, from free subjects, but from subjects historically conditioned by particular life circumstances. W. H. Stoddard

At the time when this book was originally published, broadcasting in Britain had become a huge industry undergoing major changes. There were questions over the release of a new television channel, and commercial radio.This Report was commissioned to aid the citizen at the receiving end of the new technologies who could feel very remote from the plans and decisions. It represents a wide range of views and interests, to examine the important questions which were arising from broadcasting, from the point of view of the public benefit. It sets out clearly and fully the background and the

Data on att's toward morality as they have appeared in regularly published polls since 1936 are assembled. A few questions from foreign countries are included when they were parallel to items asked in the US. All other figures are taken from nationwide US cross-sections. Opinions polled pertained to questions on general morality, sexual morality, marital morality, premarital morality, decency in women's clothing, & miscellaneous, eg, paperback books, the possibility of immoral relations between businessmen & their secretaries, & diff's in pol'al or professional as well as soc behavior. M. Maxfield.

The world is changing so fast that it's hard to know how to think about what we ought to do. We barely have time to reflect on how scientific advances will affect our lives before they're upon us. Can robots be held responsible for their actions? Will artificial intelligence be able to predict criminal activity? Is the future gender-fluid? Should we strive to become post-human? Should we use drugs to improve our intimate relationships - or to reduce crime? Our intuitions about questions like these are often both weak and confused. David Edmonds has put together a philosophical task force to get to grips with these challenges. 29 philosophers present provocative and engaging pieces about aspects of life today, and life tomorrow - birth and death, health and medicine, brain and body, personal relationships, wrongdoing and justice, the internet, animals, and the environment.

The publications in this series deal with current topics in the fields of philosophy, natural science, cognitive science, and mathematics. They are particularly interested in investigating the multiple ways in which the nature of these fields has changed over the centuries, leaving the conceptual framework inaugurated by Galilei and Descartes.