Webb Keane
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691167732
- eISBN:
- 9781400873593
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691167732.003.0004
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This chapter looks at a variety of ethnographic cases to show how recognition and intentionality are elaborated and brought into focus in different cultural contexts. It studies the concept of dewa, ...
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This chapter looks at a variety of ethnographic cases to show how recognition and intentionality are elaborated and brought into focus in different cultural contexts. It studies the concept of dewa, which seems to thematize the role that other people play in one's own sense of self. This concept, however, is not simply just one way of describing a universal feature of interaction. Once crystallized as an object of reflections, something that Sumbanese consciously know about the world and can connect to other things they know about their world, it also guides them as they purposefully undertake ethical actions. Indeed, the chapter argues that if recognition and intentionality are basic features of all social interaction anywhere, they also serve as affordances for dealing with, or reflecting on, particular ethical questions that concern a given community.Less
This chapter looks at a variety of ethnographic cases to show how recognition and intentionality are elaborated and brought into focus in different cultural contexts. It studies the concept of dewa, which seems to thematize the role that other people play in one's own sense of self. This concept, however, is not simply just one way of describing a universal feature of interaction. Once crystallized as an object of reflections, something that Sumbanese consciously know about the world and can connect to other things they know about their world, it also guides them as they purposefully undertake ethical actions. Indeed, the chapter argues that if recognition and intentionality are basic features of all social interaction anywhere, they also serve as affordances for dealing with, or reflecting on, particular ethical questions that concern a given community.
Viviana A. Zelizer
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691139364
- eISBN:
- 9781400836253
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691139364.003.0021
- Subject:
- Sociology, Economic Sociology
This chapter identifies a series of intersections between ethics and economic activity. Despite the frequency with which CEOs speak of ethics and business schools teach courses on the subject, ...
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This chapter identifies a series of intersections between ethics and economic activity. Despite the frequency with which CEOs speak of ethics and business schools teach courses on the subject, researchers have so far produced no more than scattered findings on how ethical questions actually arise within economic life, how economic actors respond to them, and what effects those responses have on economic performances. The chapter therefore concentrates on identifying salient research questions and then closes with concrete suggestions concerning the sort of inquiries that would produce better answers than are now available. The discussions cover the distinctive properties of ethical codes; how ethical codes arise; how ethical codes produce their effects; what produces violations of ethical codes; and how codes and responses to them affect economic activity.Less
This chapter identifies a series of intersections between ethics and economic activity. Despite the frequency with which CEOs speak of ethics and business schools teach courses on the subject, researchers have so far produced no more than scattered findings on how ethical questions actually arise within economic life, how economic actors respond to them, and what effects those responses have on economic performances. The chapter therefore concentrates on identifying salient research questions and then closes with concrete suggestions concerning the sort of inquiries that would produce better answers than are now available. The discussions cover the distinctive properties of ethical codes; how ethical codes arise; how ethical codes produce their effects; what produces violations of ethical codes; and how codes and responses to them affect economic activity.
Cass R. Sunstein and Martha C. Nussbaum (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195305104
- eISBN:
- 9780199850556
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195305104.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Environmental Politics
This book explores the legal and political issues that underlie the campaign for animal rights and the opposition to it. Addressing ethical questions about ownership, protection against unjustified ...
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This book explores the legal and political issues that underlie the campaign for animal rights and the opposition to it. Addressing ethical questions about ownership, protection against unjustified suffering, and the ability of animals to make their own choices free from human control, its chapters offer numerous different perspectives on animal rights and animal welfare. They show that whatever one's ultimate conclusions, the relationship between human beings and nonhuman animals is being fundamentally rethought. The book offers a modern treatment of that rethinking.Less
This book explores the legal and political issues that underlie the campaign for animal rights and the opposition to it. Addressing ethical questions about ownership, protection against unjustified suffering, and the ability of animals to make their own choices free from human control, its chapters offer numerous different perspectives on animal rights and animal welfare. They show that whatever one's ultimate conclusions, the relationship between human beings and nonhuman animals is being fundamentally rethought. The book offers a modern treatment of that rethinking.
Arthur Kleinman
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520209657
- eISBN:
- 9780520919471
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520209657.003.0003
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Medical Anthropology
This chapter studies the anthropology of bioethics. It tries to show what bioethics is all about and why it might be significant for ethical questions in medicine; identifies the anthropological ...
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This chapter studies the anthropology of bioethics. It tries to show what bioethics is all about and why it might be significant for ethical questions in medicine; identifies the anthropological contributions to medical ethics; and examines the culture of bioethics. The chapter also looks at the possible influence anthropology might have on the practice of bioethics.Less
This chapter studies the anthropology of bioethics. It tries to show what bioethics is all about and why it might be significant for ethical questions in medicine; identifies the anthropological contributions to medical ethics; and examines the culture of bioethics. The chapter also looks at the possible influence anthropology might have on the practice of bioethics.
Robert Audi
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691156484
- eISBN:
- 9781400846320
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691156484.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
This chapter studies disagreements involving moral intuitions and other kinds of moral cognitions. In understanding disagreements of any kind, it is essential to ascertain whether the disputants ...
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This chapter studies disagreements involving moral intuitions and other kinds of moral cognitions. In understanding disagreements of any kind, it is essential to ascertain whether the disputants differ regarding the same proposition. Sometimes a person rejects what another says without seeing just what that is, perhaps because the language used seems threatening, as where one can tell that one is being accused of something but does not see exactly what it is. The chapter calls this kind of disagreement illocutionary, since the disagreement is focused on the other's speech act and not its content. Ultimately, moral knowledge rests on perception, on intuition regarding ethical questions about actual or envisaged action, or on intuitions concerning hypothetical cases that helps one decide what is right or wrong.Less
This chapter studies disagreements involving moral intuitions and other kinds of moral cognitions. In understanding disagreements of any kind, it is essential to ascertain whether the disputants differ regarding the same proposition. Sometimes a person rejects what another says without seeing just what that is, perhaps because the language used seems threatening, as where one can tell that one is being accused of something but does not see exactly what it is. The chapter calls this kind of disagreement illocutionary, since the disagreement is focused on the other's speech act and not its content. Ultimately, moral knowledge rests on perception, on intuition regarding ethical questions about actual or envisaged action, or on intuitions concerning hypothetical cases that helps one decide what is right or wrong.
G. E. Moore
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- February 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780199272013
- eISBN:
- 9780191603181
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199272018.003.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
This chapter and the one that follows analyze and elucidate the normative structure of utilitarianism. Although Moore did not consider himself a utilitarian, it becomes evident as the book proceeds ...
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This chapter and the one that follows analyze and elucidate the normative structure of utilitarianism. Although Moore did not consider himself a utilitarian, it becomes evident as the book proceeds that he accepts utilitarianism’s consequentialist account of right and wrong despite rejecting its hedonistic value theory. These opening chapters are a model of analytic exposition as Moore lays out utilitarianism’s theoretical commitments and contrasts various distinct but closely related normative theses. Moore expounds the utilitarian theory with far greater precision than the classical utilitarian thinkers ever achieved.Less
This chapter and the one that follows analyze and elucidate the normative structure of utilitarianism. Although Moore did not consider himself a utilitarian, it becomes evident as the book proceeds that he accepts utilitarianism’s consequentialist account of right and wrong despite rejecting its hedonistic value theory. These opening chapters are a model of analytic exposition as Moore lays out utilitarianism’s theoretical commitments and contrasts various distinct but closely related normative theses. Moore expounds the utilitarian theory with far greater precision than the classical utilitarian thinkers ever achieved.
Karen Burnham
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252038419
- eISBN:
- 9780252096297
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252038419.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
Greg Egan (1961– ) publishes works that challenge readers with rigorous, deeply informed scientific speculation. He unapologetically delves into mathematics, physics, and other disciplines in his ...
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Greg Egan (1961– ) publishes works that challenge readers with rigorous, deeply informed scientific speculation. He unapologetically delves into mathematics, physics, and other disciplines in his prose, putting him in the vanguard of the hard science fiction renaissance of the 1990s. The book provides an in-depth study of Egan's science-heavy oeuvre. Its survey of Egan's career covers novels like Permutation City and Schild's Ladder, and the Hugo Award-winning novella Oceanic, analyzing how Egan used cutting-edge scientific theory to explore ethical questions and the nature of humanity. As the book shows, Egan's collected works constitute a bold artistic statement: that narratives of science are equal to those of poetry and drama, and that science holds a place in the human condition as exalted as religion or art. The book includes a rare interview with the famously press-shy Egan covering his works, themes, intellectual interests, and thought processes.Less
Greg Egan (1961– ) publishes works that challenge readers with rigorous, deeply informed scientific speculation. He unapologetically delves into mathematics, physics, and other disciplines in his prose, putting him in the vanguard of the hard science fiction renaissance of the 1990s. The book provides an in-depth study of Egan's science-heavy oeuvre. Its survey of Egan's career covers novels like Permutation City and Schild's Ladder, and the Hugo Award-winning novella Oceanic, analyzing how Egan used cutting-edge scientific theory to explore ethical questions and the nature of humanity. As the book shows, Egan's collected works constitute a bold artistic statement: that narratives of science are equal to those of poetry and drama, and that science holds a place in the human condition as exalted as religion or art. The book includes a rare interview with the famously press-shy Egan covering his works, themes, intellectual interests, and thought processes.
Martin Blumenthal-Barby
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801478123
- eISBN:
- 9780801467394
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801478123.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
This book reads theoretical, literary and cinematic works that appear noteworthy for the ethical questions they raise. Via critical analysis of writers and filmmakers whose projects have changed our ...
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This book reads theoretical, literary and cinematic works that appear noteworthy for the ethical questions they raise. Via critical analysis of writers and filmmakers whose projects have changed our ways of viewing the modern world—including Hannah Arendt, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, the directors of Germany in Autumn, and Heiner Müller—the book furnishes a cultural base for contemporary discussions of totalitarian domination, lying and politics, the relation between law and body, the relation between law and justice, the question of violence, and our ways of conceptualizing “the human.” A consideration of ethics is central to the book, but ethics in a general, philosophical sense is not the primary subject here; instead, the book suggests that whatever understanding of the ethical one has is always contingent upon a particular mode of presentation (Darstellung), on particular aesthetic qualities and features of media. Whatever there is to be said about ethics, it is always bound to certain forms of saying, certain ways of telling, certain modes of narration. That modes of presentation differ across genres and media goes without saying; that such differences are intimately linked with the question of the ethical emerges with heightened urgency in this book.Less
This book reads theoretical, literary and cinematic works that appear noteworthy for the ethical questions they raise. Via critical analysis of writers and filmmakers whose projects have changed our ways of viewing the modern world—including Hannah Arendt, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, the directors of Germany in Autumn, and Heiner Müller—the book furnishes a cultural base for contemporary discussions of totalitarian domination, lying and politics, the relation between law and body, the relation between law and justice, the question of violence, and our ways of conceptualizing “the human.” A consideration of ethics is central to the book, but ethics in a general, philosophical sense is not the primary subject here; instead, the book suggests that whatever understanding of the ethical one has is always contingent upon a particular mode of presentation (Darstellung), on particular aesthetic qualities and features of media. Whatever there is to be said about ethics, it is always bound to certain forms of saying, certain ways of telling, certain modes of narration. That modes of presentation differ across genres and media goes without saying; that such differences are intimately linked with the question of the ethical emerges with heightened urgency in this book.
Derek Attridge
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748640089
- eISBN:
- 9780748652112
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748640089.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter reflects Jacques Derrida's growing attention to ethical questions in the 1990s, at a time when the author was beginning to study the work of Emmanuel Levinas. For Søren Kierkegaard, ...
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This chapter reflects Jacques Derrida's growing attention to ethical questions in the 1990s, at a time when the author was beginning to study the work of Emmanuel Levinas. For Søren Kierkegaard, Abraham is the prime exemplar of the knight of faith. Like Kierkegaard, Derrida is horrified by the story of Abraham and Isaac. There is a long way from the terrible encounter with the almighty on Mount Moriah, and Derrida might seem to risk accusations of trivialising the Biblical narrative in translating it into this common domestic scene. David Wood's response does point to the extravagance of Derrida's depiction of responsible choice and resultant sacrifice as everyday, in fact second-by-second, occurrences. Kierkegaard's writing in Fear and Trembling and Derrida's in The Gift of Death stress that the responsibility to the other which concerns them cannot be explained or conveyed in philosophical language.Less
This chapter reflects Jacques Derrida's growing attention to ethical questions in the 1990s, at a time when the author was beginning to study the work of Emmanuel Levinas. For Søren Kierkegaard, Abraham is the prime exemplar of the knight of faith. Like Kierkegaard, Derrida is horrified by the story of Abraham and Isaac. There is a long way from the terrible encounter with the almighty on Mount Moriah, and Derrida might seem to risk accusations of trivialising the Biblical narrative in translating it into this common domestic scene. David Wood's response does point to the extravagance of Derrida's depiction of responsible choice and resultant sacrifice as everyday, in fact second-by-second, occurrences. Kierkegaard's writing in Fear and Trembling and Derrida's in The Gift of Death stress that the responsibility to the other which concerns them cannot be explained or conveyed in philosophical language.
Mervyn Susser and Zena Stein
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195300666
- eISBN:
- 9780199863754
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195300666.003.0018
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health, Epidemiology
This chapter discusses natural experiments and contrived experiments in epidemiology. Some epidemiologists have remained cautious about experimental intervention. Perhaps they have been deterred on ...
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This chapter discusses natural experiments and contrived experiments in epidemiology. Some epidemiologists have remained cautious about experimental intervention. Perhaps they have been deterred on debatable ethical grounds, or perhaps they have been reluctant to sacrifice generalizability and representativeness for specificity city and internal validity. Aside from the ethical questions always present, a number of other considerations weigh. In time, effort, and expense, the scale of a preventive trial must be thought of in much the same terms as a longitudinal study. As with cohort studies, these are best justified when there is a closely specified hypothesis, and when the same answer cannot readily be obtained by other means. It goes without saying that both the intervention and the outcome must be well defined and measurable.Less
This chapter discusses natural experiments and contrived experiments in epidemiology. Some epidemiologists have remained cautious about experimental intervention. Perhaps they have been deterred on debatable ethical grounds, or perhaps they have been reluctant to sacrifice generalizability and representativeness for specificity city and internal validity. Aside from the ethical questions always present, a number of other considerations weigh. In time, effort, and expense, the scale of a preventive trial must be thought of in much the same terms as a longitudinal study. As with cohort studies, these are best justified when there is a closely specified hypothesis, and when the same answer cannot readily be obtained by other means. It goes without saying that both the intervention and the outcome must be well defined and measurable.
George F. DeMartino
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199730568
- eISBN:
- 9780199896776
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199730568.003.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Public and Welfare
This chapter discusses the idea of a professional economic oath of ethics and whether such an oath exists. The chapter finds this lack interesting and explains in detail why this is so. Economics ...
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This chapter discusses the idea of a professional economic oath of ethics and whether such an oath exists. The chapter finds this lack interesting and explains in detail why this is so. Economics appears to operate on the presumption that the answer to the ethical questions that arise in economic practice are so obvious that they require no sustained attention. The chapter concludes that the economics profession faces an obligation to examine the ethical substance of its practice. A properly specified professional economics ethics would improve conduct not through legislation but through careful attention to the complex responsibilities that attend the economist's influence.Less
This chapter discusses the idea of a professional economic oath of ethics and whether such an oath exists. The chapter finds this lack interesting and explains in detail why this is so. Economics appears to operate on the presumption that the answer to the ethical questions that arise in economic practice are so obvious that they require no sustained attention. The chapter concludes that the economics profession faces an obligation to examine the ethical substance of its practice. A properly specified professional economics ethics would improve conduct not through legislation but through careful attention to the complex responsibilities that attend the economist's influence.
Jeremy R. Garrett
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262017060
- eISBN:
- 9780262301602
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262017060.003.0001
- Subject:
- Biology, Bioethics
This chapter briefly discusses the history and contemporary practice of animal research. It also determines the five important factors driving the scientific and ethical controversy: political and ...
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This chapter briefly discusses the history and contemporary practice of animal research. It also determines the five important factors driving the scientific and ethical controversy: political and economic, historical, cultural, epistemological, and ethical factors. The moral crux of the debate is discussed. This book is divided into four parts. Part I sets out some basic ethical and scientific starting points. Part II describes how moral theory bears on the practical ethical questions. Part III explores the unique challenges raised by the new and emerging possibilities of animal biotechnology. Part IV considers some alternative ways in which progress can be made in the debate.Less
This chapter briefly discusses the history and contemporary practice of animal research. It also determines the five important factors driving the scientific and ethical controversy: political and economic, historical, cultural, epistemological, and ethical factors. The moral crux of the debate is discussed. This book is divided into four parts. Part I sets out some basic ethical and scientific starting points. Part II describes how moral theory bears on the practical ethical questions. Part III explores the unique challenges raised by the new and emerging possibilities of animal biotechnology. Part IV considers some alternative ways in which progress can be made in the debate.
Peter Morey
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719067143
- eISBN:
- 9781781700587
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719067143.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This concluding chapter discusses Rohinton Mistry and his works as a whole. It shows that his fictions are characterised by a style that is unobtrusive and apparently direct, and which also contains ...
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This concluding chapter discusses Rohinton Mistry and his works as a whole. It shows that his fictions are characterised by a style that is unobtrusive and apparently direct, and which also contains considerable symbolic complexity. The chapter highlights Mistry's fascination with pattern, as well as the influence of his Zoroastrian background on his texts, and also tries to explain how Mistry's writing raises ethical questions and what his fictions offer to his readers.Less
This concluding chapter discusses Rohinton Mistry and his works as a whole. It shows that his fictions are characterised by a style that is unobtrusive and apparently direct, and which also contains considerable symbolic complexity. The chapter highlights Mistry's fascination with pattern, as well as the influence of his Zoroastrian background on his texts, and also tries to explain how Mistry's writing raises ethical questions and what his fictions offer to his readers.
Gregory E. Kaebnick and Thomas H. Murray
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780262019392
- eISBN:
- 9780262314961
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262019392.003.0001
- Subject:
- Biology, Bioethics
The Introduction contextualizes the purpose of the book, which is to discuss the ethical questions and concerns that arise in synthetic biology about the idea of creating a “synthetic cell.” ...
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The Introduction contextualizes the purpose of the book, which is to discuss the ethical questions and concerns that arise in synthetic biology about the idea of creating a “synthetic cell.” Synthetic biology has wider implications for the human relationship to the natural world, because discoveries like the M. mycoides cell at the J. Craig Venter Institute show a degree of human control over the basic mechanisms of life that humans have never attained before. Ideas that will be addressed in the book about the potential for synthetic biology and the moral and ethical debates around it are introduced.Less
The Introduction contextualizes the purpose of the book, which is to discuss the ethical questions and concerns that arise in synthetic biology about the idea of creating a “synthetic cell.” Synthetic biology has wider implications for the human relationship to the natural world, because discoveries like the M. mycoides cell at the J. Craig Venter Institute show a degree of human control over the basic mechanisms of life that humans have never attained before. Ideas that will be addressed in the book about the potential for synthetic biology and the moral and ethical debates around it are introduced.
Mark A. Bedau and Emily C. Parke
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262012621
- eISBN:
- 9780262255301
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262012621.003.0001
- Subject:
- Biology, Bioethics
This book promotes an open and responsible process of evaluating the prospect of protocells. It can foster constructive reflection and discussion that will help stakeholders become informed and ...
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This book promotes an open and responsible process of evaluating the prospect of protocells. It can foster constructive reflection and discussion that will help stakeholders become informed and involved. The first section of this book treats risk, uncertainty, and precaution with protocells. The second section presents lessons from recent history and related technologies. The third section describes how society should approach ethical questions in a future with protocells. An overview of the chapters included in this book is given.Less
This book promotes an open and responsible process of evaluating the prospect of protocells. It can foster constructive reflection and discussion that will help stakeholders become informed and involved. The first section of this book treats risk, uncertainty, and precaution with protocells. The second section presents lessons from recent history and related technologies. The third section describes how society should approach ethical questions in a future with protocells. An overview of the chapters included in this book is given.
Edward Larrissy
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748632817
- eISBN:
- 9780748651696
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748632817.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
This chapter takes a look at the condition of the blind, and also examines some stories where blind characters demonstrate fortitude and dramatise ethical and spiritual questions. It notes that while ...
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This chapter takes a look at the condition of the blind, and also examines some stories where blind characters demonstrate fortitude and dramatise ethical and spiritual questions. It notes that while these stories may not show the philosophical goals of the other treatments of the blind from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, they still show a modern fascination with the blind and their experiences.Less
This chapter takes a look at the condition of the blind, and also examines some stories where blind characters demonstrate fortitude and dramatise ethical and spiritual questions. It notes that while these stories may not show the philosophical goals of the other treatments of the blind from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, they still show a modern fascination with the blind and their experiences.
Christoph Rehmann-Sutter
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198713982
- eISBN:
- 9780191782268
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198713982.003.0015
- Subject:
- Palliative Care, Patient Care and End-of-Life Decision Making
This chapter explores the moral implications of wishes to die from the perspective of the individual who holds the wish. Drawing on phenomenological literature, wishes can be described as ...
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This chapter explores the moral implications of wishes to die from the perspective of the individual who holds the wish. Drawing on phenomenological literature, wishes can be described as intentional, passive–active mental dispositions. Wishes are multilayered, extraordinarily complex, and deeply relational subjective phenomena, which can be considered as a prime part of the human capacity to participate in the social world and to be oriented towards the future. A serious wish is an initiative, since it can effect a course of actions. It can be seen as a ‘beginning’—even though the wish, in the circumstances of illness and dying, may be directed towards life’s end. Given the characteristics of end-of-life situations, the patient who expresses a wish to die is faced with serious ethical questions, and a few of these are discussed in this chapter.Less
This chapter explores the moral implications of wishes to die from the perspective of the individual who holds the wish. Drawing on phenomenological literature, wishes can be described as intentional, passive–active mental dispositions. Wishes are multilayered, extraordinarily complex, and deeply relational subjective phenomena, which can be considered as a prime part of the human capacity to participate in the social world and to be oriented towards the future. A serious wish is an initiative, since it can effect a course of actions. It can be seen as a ‘beginning’—even though the wish, in the circumstances of illness and dying, may be directed towards life’s end. Given the characteristics of end-of-life situations, the patient who expresses a wish to die is faced with serious ethical questions, and a few of these are discussed in this chapter.
W. B. Patterson
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- December 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199681525
- eISBN:
- 9780191773235
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199681525.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History, Theology
Perkins’s several books on problems of conscience, which deal with a variety of religious and moral issues, reflect his conviction that greater attention to this subject was urgently needed both in ...
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Perkins’s several books on problems of conscience, which deal with a variety of religious and moral issues, reflect his conviction that greater attention to this subject was urgently needed both in England and on the Continent. In constructing a distinctively Protestant ‘practical divinity’, after the discontinuance in the Church of England of the practices and beliefs associated with the sacrament of penance, Perkins gave case divinity a new character and prominence. He emphasized the use of human understanding, enlightened by scriptural revelation and the Holy Spirit, as the means by which ordinary parishioners as well as their pastors could deal with the problems and dilemmas of everyday life. He made a persuasive case for the practice of private confession, consistent with the description in the Elizabethan Book of Common Prayer. His views on conscience pervaded English writing on the subject for much of the seventeenth century.Less
Perkins’s several books on problems of conscience, which deal with a variety of religious and moral issues, reflect his conviction that greater attention to this subject was urgently needed both in England and on the Continent. In constructing a distinctively Protestant ‘practical divinity’, after the discontinuance in the Church of England of the practices and beliefs associated with the sacrament of penance, Perkins gave case divinity a new character and prominence. He emphasized the use of human understanding, enlightened by scriptural revelation and the Holy Spirit, as the means by which ordinary parishioners as well as their pastors could deal with the problems and dilemmas of everyday life. He made a persuasive case for the practice of private confession, consistent with the description in the Elizabethan Book of Common Prayer. His views on conscience pervaded English writing on the subject for much of the seventeenth century.
Michael J. Lacey and Francis Oakley
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199778775
- eISBN:
- 9780190258306
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199778775.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
One deep problem facing the Catholic Church is the question of how its teaching authority is understood today. It is fairly clear that, while Rome continues to teach as if its ecclesiastical ...
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One deep problem facing the Catholic Church is the question of how its teaching authority is understood today. It is fairly clear that, while Rome continues to teach as if its ecclesiastical authority were unchanged from the days before Vatican II (1962–1965), the majority of Catholics—within the first-world church, at least—take a far more independent line, and increasingly understand themselves (rather than the church) as the final arbiters of decision-making, especially on ethical questions. This book explores the historical background and present ecclesial situation, explaining the dramatic shift in attitude on the part of contemporary Catholics in the United States and Europe. The overall purpose is neither to justify nor to repudiate the authority of the church's hierarchy, but to cast some light on: the context within which it operates, the complexities and ambiguities of the historical tradition of belief and behavior it speaks for, and the kinds of limits it confronts—consciously or otherwise. The chapters make suggestions on how to fix problems. The aim is to contribute to an intra-Catholic dialogue without which problems will continue to fester and solutions will remain elusive.Less
One deep problem facing the Catholic Church is the question of how its teaching authority is understood today. It is fairly clear that, while Rome continues to teach as if its ecclesiastical authority were unchanged from the days before Vatican II (1962–1965), the majority of Catholics—within the first-world church, at least—take a far more independent line, and increasingly understand themselves (rather than the church) as the final arbiters of decision-making, especially on ethical questions. This book explores the historical background and present ecclesial situation, explaining the dramatic shift in attitude on the part of contemporary Catholics in the United States and Europe. The overall purpose is neither to justify nor to repudiate the authority of the church's hierarchy, but to cast some light on: the context within which it operates, the complexities and ambiguities of the historical tradition of belief and behavior it speaks for, and the kinds of limits it confronts—consciously or otherwise. The chapters make suggestions on how to fix problems. The aim is to contribute to an intra-Catholic dialogue without which problems will continue to fester and solutions will remain elusive.
