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Provides many practical ways to integrate ethical learning within existing curricula and support structures of the school. The book also offers practical strategies for parental involvement and provides a step-by-step planning and implementation process

Introduction -- Degeneration theory and eugenics discourse -- Theories of heredity and the rise of eugenics -- "Stigmata of degeneration" : the religious rhetoric of eugenics -- Eugenic family studies, science, and religion -- The degenerate mind and hereditary mental defect -- Epilepsy and eugenics in scientific and religious perspective -- From sinful to criminal : the making of hereditary criminality -- Drink and the degeneration of the germ plasm -- Degeneration and the race question -- Theologians, hereditary sin, and eugenics -- Conclusion : the quest for good births

"This book argues that ethical evaluation of AI should be an integral part of public service ethics and that an effective normative framework is needed to provide ethical principles and evaluation for decision-making in the public sphere, at both local and international levels. It introduces how the tenets of prudential rationality ethics through critical engagement with intersectionality can contribute to a more successful negotiation of the challenges created by AI technological innovations and afford a relational, interactive, flexible, and fluid framework that meets the features of AI research projects, so that core public and individual values are still honoured in the face of technological development. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and professionals engaged in public management and ethics management, AI ethics, public organizations, public service leadership, compliance and more broadly to public administration and policy, applied ethics and philosophy"--

Andrew Youpa offers an original reading of Spinoza's moral philosophy, arguing it is fundamentally an ethics of joy. Unlike approaches to moral philosophy that centre on praiseworthiness or blameworthiness, Youpa maintains that Spinoza's moral philosophy is about how to live lovingly and joyously. His reading expands to examinations of the centrality of education and friendship to Spinoza's moral framework, his theory of emotions, and the metaphysical foundation of his moral philosophy.

"Challenging the posthumanist canon which celebrates the pre-eminence of matter, Ruth Miller, inFlourishingThoughtargues that what nonhuman systems contribute to democracy is thought. Drawing on recent feminist theories of nonhuman life and politics, Miller shows that reproduction and flourishing are not antithetical to contemplation and sensitivity. After demonstrating processes of life and processes of thought are indistinguishable, Miller finds that four menacing accumulations of matter and information--global surveillance, stored embryos, human clones, and reproductive trash--are politically productive rather than threats to democratic politics. As a consequence, she questions the usefulness of individual rights such as privacy and dignity, contests the value of the rational metaphysics underlying human-centered political participation, and re-evaluates the gender relations that derive from this type of participation. Ultimately, in place of these human-centered structures, Miller posits a more meditative mode of democratic engagement. Miller's argument has shattering implications for the debates over the proper use and disposal of embryonic tissue, alarms about data gathering by the state and corporations, and other major ethical, social, and security issues"--

'Cracks in the Ivory Tower' systematically shows how individuals - students, professors, and administrators - at contemporary American universities are guided by self-interest rather than ethical beliefs and the many negative effects this has on higher education.

Whose Keeper? is a profound and creative treatise on modernity and its challenge to social science. Alan Wolfe argues that modern liberal democracies, such as the United States and Scandinavia, have broken with traditional sources of mortality and instead have relied upon economic and political frameworks to define their obligations to one another. Wolfe calls for reinvigorating a sense of community and thus a sense of obligation to the larger society

Does European integration influence national cultures and social policies? Is Europe's fabled cultural diversity diminishing? In this book, Paulette Kurzer examines these important and topical questions by comparing the Irish abortion ban, Finnish and Swedish drinking restrictions, and Dutch drug decriminalization. Employing a synthesis of constructivist and institutionalist theories, Kurzer demonstrates that domestic shifts in values and attitudes, spurred along by the impact of EC/EU market integration, are in fact bringing about a convergence in European morality norms. Alcohol control policies are forced to liberalize, the Irish abortion proscription is being redefined, and Dutch drug toleration is pushed into a more punitive direction. Markets and Moral Regulation argues that a crucial agency is European law and its role as a market regulator: as market forces invade these cultural and moral spheres, protective barriers disintegrate. The result is that cultural and social domains are increasingly exposed to the influence of market competition

Experiencing whiteness of LIS education: an autoethnographic account /Anthony Bishop and Kael Moffat --Engaging the future of zine librarianship /Ann Matsushima Chiu --The importance of librarian ethnic caucuses and the slander of "self-segregation" /Jason Alston --I'm not a token: reflections on Black and Latinx representation and youth services /Diana Lopez and Aquita Winslow --Critlib management: leading and inspiring through a social justice framework /Candise Branum --Prison libraries: on the fringe of the library world /Mary Rayme --The remix: Hip Hop Information Literacy pedagogy in the 21st century /kYmberly Keeton --Using technology to communicate, educate and empower girls of color (GOC) /Loida Garcia-Febo --Lowriders in space: how a graphic novel built a community /Cathy Camper.

An incomplete truth -- Multiple truths -- Media practice or media bribery? conceptual and theoretical considerations and implications -- Dispelling the myths of the ethical significance and validity of the concept of cultural relativism and the need for cultural tolerance in combatting media bribery worldwide -- The global study of media transparency -- Professional communities against media bribery -- A normative theory of media bribery

This book presents an extended argument for the thesis that people of the present day are not debarred in principle from passing moral judgement on people who lived in former days, notwithstanding the inevitable differences in social and cultural circumstances that separate us. Some philosophers argue that because we can see things only from our own peculiar historical situation, we lack a sufficiently objective vantage point from which to appraise past people and their acts. If they are correct, then the judgements passed by twenty-first-century people must inevitably be biased and irrelevant, grounded on moral standards that would have seemed alien in that 'foreign country' of the past. This book challenges this relativistic position, contending that it seriously underestimates our ability to engage imaginatively with people who, however much their lifestyles may have differed from our own, were our fellow human beings, endowed with the same basic instincts, aversions, desires and aspirations. Taking a stand on a naturalistic theory of human beings, coupled with a Kantian conception of the equal worth of all human members of the Kingdom of Ends, Scarre argues that historical moral judgements can be sensitive to circumstances, fitting and fair, and untainted by anachronism. The discussion ends by examining the implications of this position for the practice of historians and for the ethics of memory and commemoration. Geoffrey Scarre is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Durham University, UK, where he has taught and published extensively in moral philosophy and applied ethics for more than three decades. In recent years he has focused particularly on the topics of death and aging, cultural-heritage ethics, and on the ethics of archaeology. His six monographs include Utilitarianism (1996), Death (2007) and On Courage (2010). He has also co-edited The Ethics of Archaeology (2006) and Appropriating the Past (2013), and edited The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Aging (2013)

"This book provides an authoritative resource on the topic of intelligent robots, artificial intelligence and the ethical implications of these revolutionary innovations. It examines the moral and ethical problems that arise in relation to the development, design and use of intelligent robots, which are capable of autonomous or semi-autonomous decision-making. These problems might relate, for example, to medical robots, driverless cars, intelligent military drones, pedagogical robots, police robots, legal robots and many others. The main question addressed in this book is how we can understand, explain and apply the concept of ethics in relation to intelligent robots and artificial intelligence. In each chapter, the author examines a different aspect of this question. The author also questions how we can ensure that intelligent robots are of service to humans and under what conditions intelligent robots could become more ethical than humans. The book employs an original approach to examining this cutting-edge research question, combining different research areas, and offers a wealth of practical relevance and real-world examples, illustrated through vivid case studies. With its jargon free approach and a dedicated chapter on relevant concepts at the end, this book is also accessible to readers without prior knowledge on intelligent robots and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. By providing a general account of this debate, and of the consequences of the innovations resulting from these trends, the book serves as an important contribution to the discussion and will find a natural readership among scholars and students of the innovation economy and those concerned with the ethical considerations arising in the wake of the fourth industrial revolution"--

Notes on Contributors Series Editors' Foreword Introduction 1. Fair is fair, or is it? A moral consideration of the doping wars in American sport 2. Are doping sanctions justified? A moral relativistic view 3. Cultural nuances: doping, cycling and the Tour de France 4. On transgendered athletes, fairness and doping: an international challenge 5. Creating a corporate anti-doping culture: the role of Bulgarian sports governing bodies 6. Doping in the UK: Alain and Dwain, Rio and Greg -- not guilty? 7. The Japanese debate surrounding the doping ban: the application of the harm principle 8. Doping and anti-doping in sport in China: an analysis of recent and present attitudes and actions 9. Anti-doping in sport: the Norwegian perspective 10. Ethics in sport: the Greek educational perspective on anti-doping

"In 2017 the Holy See became the first state to sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. In November of that year the Vatican invited participants to a symposium on a World Free from Nuclear Weapons. At the conclusion of that conference, Cardinal Silvano Tomasi requested that two books be published. One would compile the papers delivered at the conference. GU Press published it as A World without Nuclear Weapons: The Vatican Conference on Disarmament in August 2020, timed to commemorate the 75th solemn anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. For the second volume, he requested a collection of essays of pastoral and moral guidance on the condemnation, designed for teachers and counselors of ethics, other pastoral workers, and--the ultimate audience--military professionals, diplomats, and defense experts charged with supervision of nuclear weapons. Forbidden is that book. It is the collective effort of experts in many fields, especially moral theologians, defense analysts, and scholars of conflict transformation. Together these experts explain how, with Pope Francis' leadership, Church teaching on nuclear weapons has evolved from a carefully calibrated acceptance of deterrence to a blanket condemnation of both the weapons and the defense systems based on them. This book presents a necessary background of nuclear condemnation in Catholic just-war analysis. It also engages emerging approaches of moral analysis such as moral ecology and pastoral accompaniment, while interweaving the essential witness of survivors of nuclear attacks and test explosions. The contributors grapple with new thinking among American policymakers, led by the 60th US Secretary of State, the late George Shultz. In the interest of making Pope Francis' teaching "church-wide and parish-deep," this book takes up questions of conscience formation and pastoral accompaniment, as well as public education and the mobilization of lay Catholic movements. Of note are chapters dedicated to those with special responsibility for nuclear armaments: the missile personnel ("nuclear stewards"), officers in the chain of command, weapons scientists, legislators, military industrialists and citizens in nuclear-armed states"--