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In this work, Jamie Mayerfeld examines the content of the duty to prevent suffering and the weight it has relative to other moral considerations. He argues that the prevention of suffering is morally more important than the promotion of happiness, and that the duty to relieve suffering is much stronger than most of us acknowledge

Children's Rights and Moral Parenting offers systematic treatment of a variety of issues involving the intersection of the rights of children and the moral responsibility of parents. Mark C. Vopat offers a theory of the relationship between children, parents, and the state that can be applied to the real life decisions that parents are often in the position to make on behalf of their children. In many instances, our current view of parental ""rights"" has granted parents far more discretion than is morally warranted. Vopat arrives at this conclusion by carefully considering the unique status c

When a government in a democracy acts in our name, are we, as citizens, responsible for those acts? What if the government commits a moral crime? The protestor's slogan--"Not in our name!"--testifies to the need to separate ourselves from the wrongs of our leaders. Yet the idea that individual citizens might bear a special responsibility for political wrongdoing is deeply puzzling for ordinary morality and leading theories of democracy. In Our Name explains how citizens may be morally exposed to the failures of their representatives and state institutions, and how complicity is the professional hazard of democratic citizenship. Confronting the ethical challenges that citizens are faced with in a self-governing democracy, Eric Beerbohm proposes institutional remedies for dealing with them. Beerbohm questions prevailing theories of democracy for failing to account for our dual position as both citizens and subjects. Showing that the obligation to participate in the democratic process is even greater when we risk serving as accomplices to wrongdoing, Beerbohm argues for a distinctive division of labor between citizens and their representatives that charges lawmakers with the responsibility of incorporating their constituents' moral principles into their reasoning about policy. Grappling with the practical issues of democratic decision making, In Our Name engages with political science, law, and psychology to envision mechanisms for citizens seeking to avoid democratic complicity.

How can we develop a global economic architecture which is efficient, morally acceptable, geographically inclusive, and sustainable over time? If global capitalism -- arguably the most efficient wealth-creating system known to man -- is to be both economically viable and socially acceptable, each of its four constituent institutions must be both technically competent and buttressed by a strong moral ethos. Leading thinkers in international business and ethics identify the pressingmoral issues which global capitalism must answer. - ;Gordon Brown, Jonathan Sacks, Joseph Stiglitz, Hans Kung, Shirley Williams, and a dozen other leading thinkers in international business and ethics identify the pressing moral issues which global capitalism must answer.How can we develop a global economic architecture which is efficient, morally acceptable, geographically inclusive, and sustainable over time?If global capitalism -- arguably the most efficient wealth creating system currently known to man -- is to be both economically viable and socially acceptable, each of its four constituent institutions (markets, governments, supranational agencies, and civil society) must not only be technically competent, but also be buttressed and challenged by a strong moral ethos.The book includes contributions from leading academics, politicians, and moralists. Recognizing that solutions will not come from any one quarter, and that any serious discussion of a just and equitable system will touch on questions of ethics and faith, the book approaches the issues from a range of different disciplines and forums. - ;This volume helps to advance our understanding of the ways in which the strucyire of globalizing capitalism, its content and effects may be strategically shaped to be, through consensus, better. This is an important, interesting and compelling book by a brilliant

Engages with a range of alternative ethical perspectives and the initiatives to which they give rise. This book features case studies that covers a range of places, commodities and initiatives, including Fair Trade and organic production activism in Hungary, Fair Trade coffee in Costa Rica and handicrafts made in Indonesia.

"An examination of the three unique structural features of modern societies: inclusion of the whole population into the nation state, top-down differentiation of institutional spheres and the expansion of individualisation from the top to the base of the social pyramid. The author shows how the above features relate to present day religious phenomena such as secularisation/desecularisation, the new religious movements and the forms of present day spiritualities. He examines the extent to which secularisation and rationalisation led to the "disenchantment of the world". Later, however, one observes a reaction to the established, hierarchically organised churches and to the adherence, mainly of young people, to less structured religious groups, to religious syncretism and to individual seekers who tried to find "their own God". From this perspective, one can argue that we have a partial "re-enchantment of the world""--

Focusing on questions unique to chemistry, the second edition of Jeffrey Kovac's 'The Ethical Chemist' contains a large collection of ethical problems, or cases, that raise important ethical issues and which can be used in courses or workshops for students or working chemists. It provides overviews of ethical theories, professional issues, and codes of conduct derived from a moral idea.

F. Nick Brady: Ethical Managing - Rules and Results. Macmillan Publishing Company, New York/London 1990, 218 Seiten, 12 Dollar

1. An autobiographical introduction -- 2. Tribalism and war -- 3. Basic human worth -- 4. The presumption against war -- 5. Just cause for war -- 6. Right intention and emotion -- 7. Must we sorrow over a just war -- 8. Rights, goods, and proportionality -- 9. An ambiguous conclusion.

Preliminary -- Preface -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- I. Crime Scenes and the Terroir of Terror -- II. Security and the Challenge to Liberal Values -- III. The Blessing and Bane of the Liberal Democratic Tradition -- IV. Divergent Formalities -- V. When the Rubber Hits the Road -- VI. Securitization Technologies -- VII. Surveillance Technologies and Economies -- VIII. The Underlying Values and their Alignment -- IX. The Complexities of Oversight and Accountability -- X. Recommendations -- Appendix: Security and Privacy Institutional Arrangements: Australia and India -- References.