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"The book covers six themes: 1. Understanding workplace ethics beyond just what is right and wrong. 2. Does ethics make good business sense? Can you motivate an ethical business focus well enough? 3. Establishing whose role is ethics, which explores the role of leadership, the social and ethics committee and HR. 4. Managing workplace ethics, which outlines a comprehensive ethics management system and includes a detailed focus on topical workplace issues. 5. The crucial tasks of measuring, monitoring and reporting on ethics and ethical performance. 6. Ethical decisions and dilemmas, which examines how to make those really tough ethical decisions. The book includes various practical exercises, checklists and guidelines, suggested workplace discussions, case studies and commentaries, and further reading."--Publisher description

1. Introductory: Meta-Ethics, Normative Ethics and Morality -- 1. Levels of Theorizing -- 2. Meta-Ethics -- 3. Normative Ethics and Morality -- 4. Inter-relations between Meta-Ethics and Normative Ethics -- 5. The plan of this work -- A. Meta-Ethics: A Defence of an Intuitionist Ethic -- 2. Theistic and Naturalistic Meta-Ethical Theories -- 3. Non-Cognitivist Meta-Ethical Theories -- 4. A Positive Approach: Intuitionism and the Nature of the Objective Moral Facts -- 5. Intuitionism: How we Come to Gain Moral Knowledge -- B. Normative Ethics: The Case for Ethical Pluralism -- Introducing Part B. from Meta-Ethics to Normative Ethics -- 6. Intrinsic Goods -- 7: Monistic Theories of Absolute Obligation: Utilitarianism -- 8. Pluralistic Theories of Absolute Obligation: Kant and Natural Law -- 9. A Positive Approach: Prima Facie Duties.

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This book introduces a study of ethics and values to develop a deeper understanding of markets, business, and economic life. Its distinctive feature is its thorough integration across personal and institutional perspectives; across applied ethics and political philosophy; and across philosophy, business, and economics. Part 1 studies markets, property rights, and law, and introduces normative theories with many applications. Part 2 examines the purpose of corporations and their responsibilities. Parts 3 and 4 analyze business and economic life through the ethics and values of welfare and efficiency, liberty, rights, equality, desert, personal character, community, and the common good. This second edition maintains the strengths of the first edition - short, digestible chapters and engaging writing that explains challenging ideas clearly. The material is user-friendly, with an emphasis on a strong theoretical core. Easily adaptable to the instructor's teaching, the chapters are separable and can be shaped to the interests of the instructor with suggested course outlines and flexible application to case studies. This text is designed both for coursework in business ethics, as well as interdisciplinary programs in philosophy, politics, economics, and law. This second edition revises presentation of eight normative theories, with increased emphasis on linksto business and economic life; incorporates recent scholarship on shareholder/stakeholder debates about the purpose of corporations, bringing this important topic up to date; includes a new, streamlined preface that provides a quick overview of the book before smoothly guiding the reader to the first chapter; uses updated examples and applications; revamps a useful appendix, including enhancing the popular primer on ethics; includes Key Terms, Discussion Questions, Biographies, and Lists of Further Readings at the end of each chapter; and includes a new ending chapter on the value of an ethical life.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Ethics and the Challenges of the Contemporary World -- (Selected Problems) -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Why Do People Make Specific Moral Choices -- and What Is Truth? -- Traditional Domains of Ethical Considerations -- Classification of Ethics within the Modern Philosophical Discourse -- The Role of General Ethics in Social Life -- The Nature of Applied Ethics within the Context of Professional Deontology -- Dissonance between Normative and Descriptive Ethics -- The Place of Applied Ethics and Situational Ethics within Contemporary Philosophical Considerations -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2 -- Monism, Dualism, and Supervenience: A Debate on Distributive Justice -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Nagel's Dualism -- Murphy's Monism -- Strengths and Weaknesses -- Supervenience -- References -- Chapter 3 -- The Importance of Establishing Ethics Committees within the Health Sector -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Importance of Establishing Ethics Committees -- Structure and Functions of an Ethics Committee -- Support and Oversight of the Ethics Committee Activities -- Main Goals of the Ethics Committee -- The Role of Ethics Committee within the Health System -- Membership of the Ethics Committee -- Risks and Benefits -- Documentation and Communication -- Confidentiality in Medical Practices -- Ways to Minimize Confidentiality Risks -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 -- The Convergence of Technologies in Healthcare: New Challenges for Bioethics -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. New Opportunities and Challenges for Research -- 3. Old Challenges for New Technologies: Ownership, Privacy and Consent -- 4. Moving a Step Forward: The Right to Be Forgotten -- Conclusion -- References -- Index -- Blank Page

Ethics: Essential Readings in Moral Theory is an outstanding anthology of the most important topics, theories and debates in ethics, compiled by one of the leading experts in the field. It includes sixty-six extracts covering the central domains of ethics:why be moral?the meaning of moral languagemorality and objectivityconsequentialismdeontologyvirtue and charactervalue and well-beingmoral psychologyapplications: including abortion, famine relief and consent.Included are both classical extracts from Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant and Mill, as well as contemporary classics from philosophers such

This fourth Companion to Ancient Thought is devoted to ancient ethics. The chapters range over the ethical theories of all the major philosophers and schools from the earliest times to the work of the Hellenistic philosophers. There is a substantial introduction which considers the question of what is distinctive about ancient ethics, and an extensive bibliography. This collection provides a sophisticated and accessible introduction to the moral theories of the ancient world

The approaches to economic ethics and business ethics in Continental Europe and those in America show considerable differences but also a shared interest in turning business ethics into a subject relevant and useful for business practice as well as for the philosophical debate on ethics. The volume collects original essays on the major approaches to economic ethics and business ethics in Germany, the USA, and Europe. It provides the reader with a comprehensive overview about the discussion on modern economic ethics and business ethics. It introduces the German approaches to economic ethics and to business ethics to the English-speaking audience

Spinoza's Ethics is one of the most significant texts of the early modern period, important to history, philosophy, Jewish studies and religious studies. It had a major influence on Enlightenment thinkers and the development of the modern world. In Ethics, Spinoza addresses the most fundamental perennial philosophical questions concerning the nature of God, human beings and a good life. His startling answers synthesize the longstanding traditions of ancient Greek and Jewish philosophy with the developments of the emerging scientific revolution. The resulting philosophical system casts out the willing, personal God of Abrahamic religions and takes up the challenge of reconceiving the natural world and human beings in an entirely secular way. This volume offers a new translation based on a new critical edition, reflecting the state of the art in Spinoza scholarship, and also includes an introduction, chronology and glossary to help make this notoriously difficult text accessible.

1 The subject matter of ethics -- 1 The raw material -- 2 Subdivisions -- 2 Moral psychology -- 1 General properties of conscious beings -- 2 Some peculiarities of human minds -- 3 Classification of experiences -- 4 More detailed account of certain kinds of experience -- 3 Ethical problems: right and wrong -- 1 Right and wrong -- 4 Ethical problems: good and evil -- 1 Good and evil -- 5 Metaphysics of morals -- 1 Determinism, indeterminism, and libertarianism -- 2 Arguments for and against determinism -- 3 Consequences of determinism -- Guide to authors/subjects.

Feminist Ethics provides an overview of feminist contributions to normative ethics, moral psychology, and metaethics. It argues that through their criticisms of traditional ethics and proposals for changes, feminists are advancing 'robust agency,' an account of ideal moral and rational agency that promises to give us better responses than those given in traditional ethics to problems in ethics, including how we know our duties, the kind of persons we should strive to become, and why we should act morally.

This Element explains Nietzsche's ethics in his late works, from 1886 onwards. The first three sections explain the basics of his ethical theory - its context and presuppositions, its scope and its central tension. The next three sections explore Nietzsche's goals in writing a history of Christian morality (On the Genealogy of Morality), the content of that history, and whether he achieves his goals. The last two sections take a broader look, respectively, at Nietzsche's wider philosophy in light of his ethics and at the prospects for a Nietzschean ethics after Nietzsche.

The Element provides an overview of Immanuel Kant's arguments regarding the content of the moral law (the categorical imperative), as well as an exposition of his arguments for the bindingness of the moral law for rational agents. The Element also considers common objections to Kant's ethics.