Philosophy and Ethics: New ResearchNova Publishers, 2006 - 358 páginas In a world of seemingly never-ending technological advances, questions of ethics take on even more significance than in the past. Conflicts of interest abound and pressure mounts at every turn for more profits, higher incomes, power and instant gratification leads to the temptation to ignore questions of ethics. This book presents new and interesting research on ethical issues in the modern day. |
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... conceive of ourselves as persons . On the one hand there is a broadly liberal conception , with its philosophical ... conception might well be held to underwrite our liberty to sell one of our organs . By contrast there is a tradition ...
... conceive of ourselves as persons . On the one hand there is a broadly liberal conception , with its philosophical ... conception might well be held to underwrite our liberty to sell one of our organs . By contrast there is a tradition ...
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... conception may appear to reflect the disquiet that many feel over such trade , there are considerable difficulties in using it as a basis for the prohibition , leaving issues of fairness as the main issue in the debate over organ sales ...
... conception may appear to reflect the disquiet that many feel over such trade , there are considerable difficulties in using it as a basis for the prohibition , leaving issues of fairness as the main issue in the debate over organ sales ...
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... conceive of it as a risk . The trustee is of course free to disappoint the trustor , but the trustor feels secure . " Thinking of trust as risk - taking is trust seen from a third- person point of view . " Those who see trust as a mere ...
... conceive of it as a risk . The trustee is of course free to disappoint the trustor , but the trustor feels secure . " Thinking of trust as risk - taking is trust seen from a third- person point of view . " Those who see trust as a mere ...
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... conception of this friendship differs from that of his friend . When such questions arise the trustor becomes aware ... conceive of risks . He may have misjudged the relationship and thus have unwarranted or misplaced genuine trust . His ...
... conception of this friendship differs from that of his friend . When such questions arise the trustor becomes aware ... conceive of risks . He may have misjudged the relationship and thus have unwarranted or misplaced genuine trust . His ...
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... conception of what has occurred is , of course , a subjective matter , and can be founded on misinterpretation of their own motives and actions , as well as those of the other person . E.g. what they consider expressions of mutual ...
... conception of what has occurred is , of course , a subjective matter , and can be founded on misinterpretation of their own motives and actions , as well as those of the other person . E.g. what they consider expressions of mutual ...
Contenido
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PERSONAL IDENTITIY SELFINTEREST AND PREFERENCES | 59 |
ETHICAL CONCERN FOR THE DISTANT AND THE ABSENT | 115 |
FROM THE ONTOLOGY OF TEMPORALITY TO THE ETHICS OF THE FUTURE CARE AND RESPONSIBILITY IN HANS JONAS | 133 |
CONCEPTUAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MORALITY AND ETHICS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR A CONTEMPORARY ETHICS BASE... | 159 |
MIMESIS AS AN EMBODIED IMAGINATIVE ACT THE PARADOX OF TRAGEDY AND EMPATHIC MORALITY | 171 |
ETHICAL ISSUES RAISED BY TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE HOW SHOULD MANAGERS RESPOND? | 219 |
A STAKEHOLDER BASED METHOD FOR BUSINESS ETHICS | 233 |
THE CONCEPT OF A PERSON AND THE SALE OF ORGANS | 249 |
MACHIAVELLIANISM HOW DO TODAYS INDONESIAN STUDENTS COMPARE WITH US STUDENTS OF TODAY AND THE 1960S? | 267 |
A DEFENSE OF EUDAIMONIST EGOISM | 275 |
THE CASUAL CLOSURE ARGUMENT | 293 |
PERCEPTIONS OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS A NATIONAL SURVEY OF PRODUCERS AND THE PUBLIC | 305 |
A NEW PARADIGM FOR UNDERSTANDING CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IN CLINICAL TRIALS | 319 |
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Página 4 - Trust (or, symmetrically, distrust) is a particular level of the subjective probability with which an agent assesses that another agent or group of agents will perform a particular action, both before he can monitor such action (or independently of his capacity ever to be able to monitor it) and in a context in which it affects his own action.
Página 4 - When we say we trust someone or that someone is trustworthy, we implicitly mean that the probability that he will perform an action that is beneficial or at least not detrimental to us is high enough for us to consider engaging in some form of cooperation with him".