Miguel Sicart
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262012652
- eISBN:
- 9780262255134
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262012652.001.0001
- Subject:
- Computer Science, Game Studies
Despite the emergence of computer games as a dominant cultural industry (and the accompanying emergence of computer games as the subject of scholarly research), we know little or nothing about the ...
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Despite the emergence of computer games as a dominant cultural industry (and the accompanying emergence of computer games as the subject of scholarly research), we know little or nothing about the ethics of computer games. Considerations of the morality of computer games seldom go beyond intermittent portrayals of them in the mass media as training devices for teenage serial killers. This exploration of the subject addresses broader issues about the ethics of games, the ethics of playing the games, and the ethical responsibilities of game designers. It argues that computer games are ethical objects, that computer game players are ethical agents, and that the ethics of computer games should be seen as a complex network of responsibilities and moral duties. Players should not be considered passive amoral creatures; they reflect, relate, and create with ethical minds. The games they play are ethical systems, with rules that create gameworlds with values at play. Drawing on concepts from philosophy and game studies, the book proposes a framework for analyzing the ethics of computer games as both designed objects and player experiences. After presentin core theoretical arguments and offering a general theory for understanding computer game ethics, the book offers case studies examining single-player games (using Bioshock as an example), multiplayer games (illustrated by Defcon), and online gameworlds (illustrated by World of Warcraft) from an ethical perspective. It explores issues raised by unethical content in computer games and its possible effect on players.Less
Despite the emergence of computer games as a dominant cultural industry (and the accompanying emergence of computer games as the subject of scholarly research), we know little or nothing about the ethics of computer games. Considerations of the morality of computer games seldom go beyond intermittent portrayals of them in the mass media as training devices for teenage serial killers. This exploration of the subject addresses broader issues about the ethics of games, the ethics of playing the games, and the ethical responsibilities of game designers. It argues that computer games are ethical objects, that computer game players are ethical agents, and that the ethics of computer games should be seen as a complex network of responsibilities and moral duties. Players should not be considered passive amoral creatures; they reflect, relate, and create with ethical minds. The games they play are ethical systems, with rules that create gameworlds with values at play. Drawing on concepts from philosophy and game studies, the book proposes a framework for analyzing the ethics of computer games as both designed objects and player experiences. After presentin core theoretical arguments and offering a general theory for understanding computer game ethics, the book offers case studies examining single-player games (using Bioshock as an example), multiplayer games (illustrated by Defcon), and online gameworlds (illustrated by World of Warcraft) from an ethical perspective. It explores issues raised by unethical content in computer games and its possible effect on players.
Fred Dallmayr
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813125718
- eISBN:
- 9780813135397
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813125718.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
In addition to war, terrorism, and unchecked military violence, modernity is also subject to less visible but no less venomous conflicts. Global in nature, these “culture wars” exacerbate the ...
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In addition to war, terrorism, and unchecked military violence, modernity is also subject to less visible but no less venomous conflicts. Global in nature, these “culture wars” exacerbate the tensions between tradition and innovation, virtue and freedom. This book charts a course beyond these persistent but curable dichotomies. Consulting diverse fields such as philosophy, literature, political science, and religious studies, the book equates modern history with a process of steady pluralization. This process, which the book calls “integral pluralism,” requires new connections and creates ethical responsibilities. The book critically compares integral pluralism against the theories of Carl Schmitt, the Religious Right, international “realism,” and so-called political Islam. Drawing on the works of James, Heidegger, Gadamer, and Merleau-Ponty, it offers solutions for the conflicts of the modern world.Less
In addition to war, terrorism, and unchecked military violence, modernity is also subject to less visible but no less venomous conflicts. Global in nature, these “culture wars” exacerbate the tensions between tradition and innovation, virtue and freedom. This book charts a course beyond these persistent but curable dichotomies. Consulting diverse fields such as philosophy, literature, political science, and religious studies, the book equates modern history with a process of steady pluralization. This process, which the book calls “integral pluralism,” requires new connections and creates ethical responsibilities. The book critically compares integral pluralism against the theories of Carl Schmitt, the Religious Right, international “realism,” and so-called political Islam. Drawing on the works of James, Heidegger, Gadamer, and Merleau-Ponty, it offers solutions for the conflicts of the modern world.
Heike Felzmann
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719099465
- eISBN:
- 9781526104410
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719099465.003.0013
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture
This chapter considers two high profile Irish inquiries: the Lourdes Hospital Inquiry on the Neary case and the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) Report on University Hospital Galway ...
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This chapter considers two high profile Irish inquiries: the Lourdes Hospital Inquiry on the Neary case and the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) Report on University Hospital Galway and the care of Savita Halappanavar from an organisational ethics perspective. The chapter outlines the significance of systemic factors in both cases and draws on literature from organisational clinical ethics and business ethics to provide a framework for thinking about the wider ethical responsibilities of healthcare organisations. It outlines how organisational structures are directly implicated in the facilitation of ethical actions by members of the organisation.Less
This chapter considers two high profile Irish inquiries: the Lourdes Hospital Inquiry on the Neary case and the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) Report on University Hospital Galway and the care of Savita Halappanavar from an organisational ethics perspective. The chapter outlines the significance of systemic factors in both cases and draws on literature from organisational clinical ethics and business ethics to provide a framework for thinking about the wider ethical responsibilities of healthcare organisations. It outlines how organisational structures are directly implicated in the facilitation of ethical actions by members of the organisation.
Paul G. Harris (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847428134
- eISBN:
- 9781447301844
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847428134.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
Drawing on practices and theories of environmental justice, this book describes China's contribution to global warming and analyses its policy responses. Contributors critically examine China's ...
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Drawing on practices and theories of environmental justice, this book describes China's contribution to global warming and analyses its policy responses. Contributors critically examine China's practical and ethical responsibilities to climate change from a variety of perspectives. They explore policies that could mitigate China's environmental impact while promoting its own interests and meeting the international community's expectations.Less
Drawing on practices and theories of environmental justice, this book describes China's contribution to global warming and analyses its policy responses. Contributors critically examine China's practical and ethical responsibilities to climate change from a variety of perspectives. They explore policies that could mitigate China's environmental impact while promoting its own interests and meeting the international community's expectations.
Haochen Sun
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- October 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199335701
- eISBN:
- 9780199350421
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199335701.003.0011
- Subject:
- Law, Intellectual Property, IT, and Media Law, Competition Law
This chapter uses the stark contrast between the rich and the poor, as illustrated in the luxury goods industry, as a lens through which to see the existence of an ethical crisis in society. To ...
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This chapter uses the stark contrast between the rich and the poor, as illustrated in the luxury goods industry, as a lens through which to see the existence of an ethical crisis in society. To tackle this crisis, the chapter argues for the creation of an “ethical responsibility initiative” and this requires luxury companies to take on an ethical responsibility to actively disseminate information on the plight of human life under absolute poverty. The chapter further examines how trademark law should be reformed to foster and promote the ethical responsibilities of luxury companies and consumers. Based on this proposal, the chapter shows how trademark law can play a better social role from the ethical responsibility perspective.Less
This chapter uses the stark contrast between the rich and the poor, as illustrated in the luxury goods industry, as a lens through which to see the existence of an ethical crisis in society. To tackle this crisis, the chapter argues for the creation of an “ethical responsibility initiative” and this requires luxury companies to take on an ethical responsibility to actively disseminate information on the plight of human life under absolute poverty. The chapter further examines how trademark law should be reformed to foster and promote the ethical responsibilities of luxury companies and consumers. Based on this proposal, the chapter shows how trademark law can play a better social role from the ethical responsibility perspective.
Strachan Donnelley
Ceara Donnelley and Bruce Jennings (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780813167275
- eISBN:
- 9780813175669
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813167275.003.0007
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Environmental Studies
Developing the theme of the preceding chapter on the need for greater ecological literacy in American society, this chapter discusses the difficulty that scientists and other technical experts have ...
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Developing the theme of the preceding chapter on the need for greater ecological literacy in American society, this chapter discusses the difficulty that scientists and other technical experts have in fulfilling their ethical responsibilities as civic educators in a democratic society. Ecological issues are truly complex, but actual scientific uncertainty and disagreement are grossly distorted and magnified for commercial or ideological ends. The result is a mistaken public perception. Only scientists themselves can correct this serious distortion.Less
Developing the theme of the preceding chapter on the need for greater ecological literacy in American society, this chapter discusses the difficulty that scientists and other technical experts have in fulfilling their ethical responsibilities as civic educators in a democratic society. Ecological issues are truly complex, but actual scientific uncertainty and disagreement are grossly distorted and magnified for commercial or ideological ends. The result is a mistaken public perception. Only scientists themselves can correct this serious distortion.
Anthony Lloyd
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781529204018
- eISBN:
- 9781529204063
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781529204018.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Occupations, Professions, and Work
This chapter offers evidence to suggest that harm is not something done to precarious workers by social forces and structural deficit but also something inflicted upon each other. The culture of ...
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This chapter offers evidence to suggest that harm is not something done to precarious workers by social forces and structural deficit but also something inflicted upon each other. The culture of targets and competitive individualism creates the conditions for conflict between managers, co-workers and customers, all of whom seek some degree of status, recognition or security from the infliction of harm on others. Evidence shows managers targeting employees, the emergence of cliques, often management led, which inflict harm on those outside the group, customers willing to belittle, infantilise and abuse employees, and co-workers seeking competitive advantage at the expense of others. This positive motivation to harm reflects the absence of an ethical responsibility for the other and, in some cases, represents the emergence of a subjectivity imbued with the ‘special liberty’ to act as one pleases in order to maximise market share and opportunities within a culture of competition and individual advantage.Less
This chapter offers evidence to suggest that harm is not something done to precarious workers by social forces and structural deficit but also something inflicted upon each other. The culture of targets and competitive individualism creates the conditions for conflict between managers, co-workers and customers, all of whom seek some degree of status, recognition or security from the infliction of harm on others. Evidence shows managers targeting employees, the emergence of cliques, often management led, which inflict harm on those outside the group, customers willing to belittle, infantilise and abuse employees, and co-workers seeking competitive advantage at the expense of others. This positive motivation to harm reflects the absence of an ethical responsibility for the other and, in some cases, represents the emergence of a subjectivity imbued with the ‘special liberty’ to act as one pleases in order to maximise market share and opportunities within a culture of competition and individual advantage.
Donna Jowett
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823222063
- eISBN:
- 9780823235605
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823222063.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
This chapter examines the so-called mauvaise conscience and necessary sadness in relation to ethical experience. It explores what Emmanuel Levinas called mauvaise ...
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This chapter examines the so-called mauvaise conscience and necessary sadness in relation to ethical experience. It explores what Emmanuel Levinas called mauvaise conscience experience, which was also emphasized in Jacques Derrida's Aporias and The Gift of Death. Both philosophers have suggested that ethical responsibility opens people to a certain sorrow that is not only endured but also affirmed. This chapter explains the processes involved in the affirmation of the necessary sadness.Less
This chapter examines the so-called mauvaise conscience and necessary sadness in relation to ethical experience. It explores what Emmanuel Levinas called mauvaise conscience experience, which was also emphasized in Jacques Derrida's Aporias and The Gift of Death. Both philosophers have suggested that ethical responsibility opens people to a certain sorrow that is not only endured but also affirmed. This chapter explains the processes involved in the affirmation of the necessary sadness.
Birgit Schippers
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780748678846
- eISBN:
- 9781474412438
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748678846.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
This chapter considers Butler’s treatment of affect and its import for understanding ethical responses to violence and war. Building on Butler’s affective conception of ethics, the chapter argues ...
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This chapter considers Butler’s treatment of affect and its import for understanding ethical responses to violence and war. Building on Butler’s affective conception of ethics, the chapter argues that her emphasis on the visceral dimensions of social and political life makes an important contribution to a still neglected topic in the fields of global ethics and political philosophy that contributes notably towards an understanding of the differentiated visceral responses to the suffering of others, specifically in the context of war. However, despite the explanatory force and normative ambition of Butler’s rendering of the relationship between affect and ethics, her account lacks normative plausibility. While she tells us why we should respond ethically towards others, she cannot tell us why we should feel ethically disposed towards others. This connection between ethical obligation and ethical feeling, or affect, is not finally resolved in her work.Less
This chapter considers Butler’s treatment of affect and its import for understanding ethical responses to violence and war. Building on Butler’s affective conception of ethics, the chapter argues that her emphasis on the visceral dimensions of social and political life makes an important contribution to a still neglected topic in the fields of global ethics and political philosophy that contributes notably towards an understanding of the differentiated visceral responses to the suffering of others, specifically in the context of war. However, despite the explanatory force and normative ambition of Butler’s rendering of the relationship between affect and ethics, her account lacks normative plausibility. While she tells us why we should respond ethically towards others, she cannot tell us why we should feel ethically disposed towards others. This connection between ethical obligation and ethical feeling, or affect, is not finally resolved in her work.
John Keane
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199562992
- eISBN:
- 9780191701856
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199562992.003.0015
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
Understood as forms of government and ways of life in which no body rules because power is subject to periodic elections as well as publicly monitored and contested from a multiplicity of sites, ...
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Understood as forms of government and ways of life in which no body rules because power is subject to periodic elections as well as publicly monitored and contested from a multiplicity of sites, contemporary democracies are remarkable in the way they dispense with the fetish of leaders. Democracies certainly need leaders, they multiply their numbers, respect them, follow them, learn from them — but they do not worship them as leaders blessed with metaphysical powers. Democracies specialize in bringing leaders down to earth. They manage to do this by using a variety of formal methods and informal customs that require leaders to leave office peacefully, without staging ruthless comebacks, so enabling other leaders to take their place without kidnappings or gunfire, bomb blasts, or street upheavals.Less
Understood as forms of government and ways of life in which no body rules because power is subject to periodic elections as well as publicly monitored and contested from a multiplicity of sites, contemporary democracies are remarkable in the way they dispense with the fetish of leaders. Democracies certainly need leaders, they multiply their numbers, respect them, follow them, learn from them — but they do not worship them as leaders blessed with metaphysical powers. Democracies specialize in bringing leaders down to earth. They manage to do this by using a variety of formal methods and informal customs that require leaders to leave office peacefully, without staging ruthless comebacks, so enabling other leaders to take their place without kidnappings or gunfire, bomb blasts, or street upheavals.
Dean J. Franco
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801450877
- eISBN:
- 9780801464010
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801450877.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
This chapter explains how Tony Kushner's play Homebody/Kabul is a dramatic exploration of the ethics of cross-cultural recognition and responsibility. The play notably broaches an ethics about ...
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This chapter explains how Tony Kushner's play Homebody/Kabul is a dramatic exploration of the ethics of cross-cultural recognition and responsibility. The play notably broaches an ethics about Western responsibility for globalization's reach and the difficulty of recognition across cultural and religious barriers. In addition, the chapter analyzes Homebody/Kabul, a play about an upper-class London housewife who disappears into Kabul, in conjunction with National Geographic's discovery and unveiling of their famous Afghan girl, Sharbat Gula. Kushner's play is thus mapped across the very same terrain as the celebrated National Geographic feature, but the chapter reveals how the play is also a complication of National Geographic's teleology of loss and recovery, not to mention liberal feminism. The chapter argues that though the play is laced with points of cultural incommensurability and misapprehension, it nonetheless models a vision of ethical responsibility for the other particularly suggestive for a post-9/11 comprehension of the world.Less
This chapter explains how Tony Kushner's play Homebody/Kabul is a dramatic exploration of the ethics of cross-cultural recognition and responsibility. The play notably broaches an ethics about Western responsibility for globalization's reach and the difficulty of recognition across cultural and religious barriers. In addition, the chapter analyzes Homebody/Kabul, a play about an upper-class London housewife who disappears into Kabul, in conjunction with National Geographic's discovery and unveiling of their famous Afghan girl, Sharbat Gula. Kushner's play is thus mapped across the very same terrain as the celebrated National Geographic feature, but the chapter reveals how the play is also a complication of National Geographic's teleology of loss and recovery, not to mention liberal feminism. The chapter argues that though the play is laced with points of cultural incommensurability and misapprehension, it nonetheless models a vision of ethical responsibility for the other particularly suggestive for a post-9/11 comprehension of the world.
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804755214
- eISBN:
- 9780804769976
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804755214.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter examines the themes pursued by Jacques Derrida in the first seminar cycle on philosophical nationality in 1984–85. These include the conceptions of language involved in and implied by ...
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This chapter examines the themes pursued by Jacques Derrida in the first seminar cycle on philosophical nationality in 1984–85. These include the conceptions of language involved in and implied by discourses of national affirmation and the idea that while national entities are paradoxical in their simultaneous aspiration to particularity and universality, these paradoxes yield an ethical responsibility for such entities to transform themselves and open themselves up to what they are not. The chapter also argues that Derrida can be considered as mobilizing a Levinasian understanding of ethical responsibility as election to capture the ethical injunction which follows from exemplarism.Less
This chapter examines the themes pursued by Jacques Derrida in the first seminar cycle on philosophical nationality in 1984–85. These include the conceptions of language involved in and implied by discourses of national affirmation and the idea that while national entities are paradoxical in their simultaneous aspiration to particularity and universality, these paradoxes yield an ethical responsibility for such entities to transform themselves and open themselves up to what they are not. The chapter also argues that Derrida can be considered as mobilizing a Levinasian understanding of ethical responsibility as election to capture the ethical injunction which follows from exemplarism.
Gary Gutting
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199227037
- eISBN:
- 9780191809781
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199227037.003.0007
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
This chapter discusses how the new generation of French philosophers rejected humanism because it is an anthropocentric ethics in essence, which prevents man from going beyond the scope of the nature ...
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This chapter discusses how the new generation of French philosophers rejected humanism because it is an anthropocentric ethics in essence, which prevents man from going beyond the scope of the nature of human beings. It is stated that modern mentality is progressing towards the path of making man the essence of the world, and that the knowledge of man is often associated with ethics or politics. The chapter also presents Emmanuel Levinas' ethics and the notion of ethical responsibility, as written in his book Totality and Infinity. Levinas' work seems to oppose Deleuze's and the two are viewed as reflections of the transcendence-immanence dichotomy of French philosophy.Less
This chapter discusses how the new generation of French philosophers rejected humanism because it is an anthropocentric ethics in essence, which prevents man from going beyond the scope of the nature of human beings. It is stated that modern mentality is progressing towards the path of making man the essence of the world, and that the knowledge of man is often associated with ethics or politics. The chapter also presents Emmanuel Levinas' ethics and the notion of ethical responsibility, as written in his book Totality and Infinity. Levinas' work seems to oppose Deleuze's and the two are viewed as reflections of the transcendence-immanence dichotomy of French philosophy.
Raz Yosef and Yaara Ozery
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- October 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199393749
- eISBN:
- 9780199393770
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199393749.003.0014
- Subject:
- Music, Theory, Analysis, Composition, Performing Practice/Studies
The chapter examines the civic ethical role played by contemporary Israeli documentary film artists in representing testimonies related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. It discusses the special ...
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The chapter examines the civic ethical role played by contemporary Israeli documentary film artists in representing testimonies related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. It discusses the special use of documentary re-enactment in depicting those testimonies, focusing on the film Testimony. The performative re-enactment in this film has a spectral power to retrieve the voices and bodies of the original testimonies and witnesses to which no listener had been found and, at the same time, to give them a new form, unveiling the ghostly presence of hidden and silenced historical pasts of Palestinians and Israelis, Arab and Jews, as well as of Arab-Jews, haunting both the film and the viewers. The artistic civic role that the filmmaker has taken upon himself is to encourage spectators to bear witness and take ethical responsibility for the lost stories we did not wish to see and which we wanted to forget.Less
The chapter examines the civic ethical role played by contemporary Israeli documentary film artists in representing testimonies related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. It discusses the special use of documentary re-enactment in depicting those testimonies, focusing on the film Testimony. The performative re-enactment in this film has a spectral power to retrieve the voices and bodies of the original testimonies and witnesses to which no listener had been found and, at the same time, to give them a new form, unveiling the ghostly presence of hidden and silenced historical pasts of Palestinians and Israelis, Arab and Jews, as well as of Arab-Jews, haunting both the film and the viewers. The artistic civic role that the filmmaker has taken upon himself is to encourage spectators to bear witness and take ethical responsibility for the lost stories we did not wish to see and which we wanted to forget.
Lynn Stephen
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520222373
- eISBN:
- 9780520927643
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520222373.003.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Latin American Cultural Anthropology
This introductory chapter discusses relevant background information on Zapatismo and locates the text in relation to the international political economy. It studies the ethical and moral ...
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This introductory chapter discusses relevant background information on Zapatismo and locates the text in relation to the international political economy. It studies the ethical and moral responsibilities anthropologists have and argues that a flexible understanding of anthropology can incorporate the functions of witness and observer, especially in relation to human rights work and the human experience of social suffering. This chapter also takes a look at the longer anthropological tradition of ethnography conducted during times of conflict and violence, while suggesting responsible ways to conduct such research.Less
This introductory chapter discusses relevant background information on Zapatismo and locates the text in relation to the international political economy. It studies the ethical and moral responsibilities anthropologists have and argues that a flexible understanding of anthropology can incorporate the functions of witness and observer, especially in relation to human rights work and the human experience of social suffering. This chapter also takes a look at the longer anthropological tradition of ethnography conducted during times of conflict and violence, while suggesting responsible ways to conduct such research.
Kristina Orfali
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780195386097
- eISBN:
- 9780190267476
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780195386097.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
This chapter focuses on French bioethics, which is considered to have a strong rhetoric of nationalization, self-appointed mission, and explicit opposition to the outside forces of US and Anglo-Saxon ...
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This chapter focuses on French bioethics, which is considered to have a strong rhetoric of nationalization, self-appointed mission, and explicit opposition to the outside forces of US and Anglo-Saxon bioethics values and models. It describes French bioethics as a centralized state and trusted in the Jacobin tradition as the appropriate defender of the public good that implements human dignity and solidarity. French bioethics has a strongly paternalistic medical profession, which is highly trusted by society to take ethical responsibility for decisions.Less
This chapter focuses on French bioethics, which is considered to have a strong rhetoric of nationalization, self-appointed mission, and explicit opposition to the outside forces of US and Anglo-Saxon bioethics values and models. It describes French bioethics as a centralized state and trusted in the Jacobin tradition as the appropriate defender of the public good that implements human dignity and solidarity. French bioethics has a strongly paternalistic medical profession, which is highly trusted by society to take ethical responsibility for decisions.
Nicole N. Aljoe, Eric Gardner, and Molly O’Hagan Hardy
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780252042232
- eISBN:
- 9780252050978
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252042232.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Nicole J. Aljoe, Eric Gardner, and Molly O’Hagan Hardy describe the development of Just Teach One Early African American Print and its focus on texts excluded from critical and historical narratives ...
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Nicole J. Aljoe, Eric Gardner, and Molly O’Hagan Hardy describe the development of Just Teach One Early African American Print and its focus on texts excluded from critical and historical narratives of black literature. The chapter describes JTO: EAAP’s plans to link its work with other DH projects like the Early Caribbean Digital Archive and the Colored Conventions Project, and to build bridges to lesser-known collections, including historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and church collections, in order to aid text sharing, identification, preservation, and technological engagement. Recognizing its responsibility to preserve black cultural heritage, the essay describes JTO: EAAP’s decision to use TEI standards to encode texts on the site and provides an extended example from Aljoe’s classroom project on “Theresa: A Haytien Tale.”Less
Nicole J. Aljoe, Eric Gardner, and Molly O’Hagan Hardy describe the development of Just Teach One Early African American Print and its focus on texts excluded from critical and historical narratives of black literature. The chapter describes JTO: EAAP’s plans to link its work with other DH projects like the Early Caribbean Digital Archive and the Colored Conventions Project, and to build bridges to lesser-known collections, including historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and church collections, in order to aid text sharing, identification, preservation, and technological engagement. Recognizing its responsibility to preserve black cultural heritage, the essay describes JTO: EAAP’s decision to use TEI standards to encode texts on the site and provides an extended example from Aljoe’s classroom project on “Theresa: A Haytien Tale.”
Karen Burnham
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252038419
- eISBN:
- 9780252096297
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252038419.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This chapter examines Greg Egan's view of ethics, which can be seen from his earliest breakout story, “The Cutie” (1989). It looks at several facets of ethical concerns, including medical ethics as ...
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This chapter examines Greg Egan's view of ethics, which can be seen from his earliest breakout story, “The Cutie” (1989). It looks at several facets of ethical concerns, including medical ethics as seen in “Blood Sisters” (1991) and “Cocoon” (1994). It also covers the uneven distribution of technological benefits, best illustrated by “Yeyuka” (1997) and the genetic engineering piracy shown in Distress (1995). Finally, it focuses on our ethical responsibilities to life that we create and to alien life that we may find out in the universe.Less
This chapter examines Greg Egan's view of ethics, which can be seen from his earliest breakout story, “The Cutie” (1989). It looks at several facets of ethical concerns, including medical ethics as seen in “Blood Sisters” (1991) and “Cocoon” (1994). It also covers the uneven distribution of technological benefits, best illustrated by “Yeyuka” (1997) and the genetic engineering piracy shown in Distress (1995). Finally, it focuses on our ethical responsibilities to life that we create and to alien life that we may find out in the universe.
Nicole Nguyen
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780816698264
- eISBN:
- 9781452955209
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816698264.003.0003
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
The second chapter outlines the author’s methodological approach to the Milton ethnographic project and the ensuing experience. In doing so, the chapter renews debates about overt and covert research ...
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The second chapter outlines the author’s methodological approach to the Milton ethnographic project and the ensuing experience. In doing so, the chapter renews debates about overt and covert research by examining the covert methods used by qualitative researchers in the field.Less
The second chapter outlines the author’s methodological approach to the Milton ethnographic project and the ensuing experience. In doing so, the chapter renews debates about overt and covert research by examining the covert methods used by qualitative researchers in the field.
Celeste Tường Vy Sharpe and Timothy B. Powell
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780252042232
- eISBN:
- 9780252050978
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252042232.003.0011
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Celeste Tường Vy Sharpe and Timothy B. Powell describe how they use the design of digital platforms as teachable problems to engage students in a digital humanities course about the stories of ...
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Celeste Tường Vy Sharpe and Timothy B. Powell describe how they use the design of digital platforms as teachable problems to engage students in a digital humanities course about the stories of Indigenous peoples and the Eurocentric “control over time.” Sharpe and Powell task students with creating a digital project that explores a more culturally specific and nuanced model of Iroquois or Haudenosaunee temporality. In the process, students and teachers alike imagine solutions that may enable digital humanities tools to more accurately represent how Indigenous peoples tell their histories.Less
Celeste Tường Vy Sharpe and Timothy B. Powell describe how they use the design of digital platforms as teachable problems to engage students in a digital humanities course about the stories of Indigenous peoples and the Eurocentric “control over time.” Sharpe and Powell task students with creating a digital project that explores a more culturally specific and nuanced model of Iroquois or Haudenosaunee temporality. In the process, students and teachers alike imagine solutions that may enable digital humanities tools to more accurately represent how Indigenous peoples tell their histories.
