Post Ethical Society

Author : Douglas V. Porpora,Alexander G. Nikolaev,Julia Hagemann May,Alexander Jenkins
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226062525

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Post-Ethical Society by Douglas V. Porpora,Alexander G. Nikolaev,Julia Hagemann May,Alexander Jenkins Pdf

We’ve all seen the images from Abu Ghraib: stress positions, US soldiers kneeling on the heads of prisoners, and dehumanizing pyramids formed from black-hooded bodies. We have watched officials elected to our highest offices defend enhanced interrogation in terms of efficacy and justify drone strikes in terms of retribution and deterrence. But the mainstream secular media rarely addresses the morality of these choices, leaving us to ask individually: Is this right? In this singular examination of the American discourse over war and torture, Douglas V. Porpora, Alexander Nikolaev, Julia Hagemann May, and Alexander Jenkins investigate the opinion pages of American newspapers, television commentary, and online discussion groups to offer the first empirical study of the national conversation about the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the revelations of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib a year later. Post-Ethical Society is not just another shot fired in the ongoing culture war between conservatives and liberals, but a pensive and ethically engaged reflection of America’s feelings about itself and our actions as a nation. And while many writers and commentators have opined about our moral place in the world, the vast amount of empirical data amassed in Post-Ethical Society sets it apart—and makes its findings that much more damning.

Author : Harry Redner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0742512339

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Ethical Life by Harry Redner Pdf

Australian philosopher of science Redner argues that cultural life consists of three fundamental aspects: representation, ethos, and technics. This is the second of four volumes setting out a comprehensive theory of human culture. The first is A New Science of Representation, the third and companion to the second will be Aesthetic Life, and the third will be The Triumph of Technics. His conclusion at the end of the series is that the contemporary global culture is a triumph of technics over representation and ethos. c. Book News Inc.

Author : South Place Ethical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Ethics
ISBN : OCLC:1436121895

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A Short History of the ... Society and an Urgent Appeal by South Place Ethical Society Pdf

Author : Kevin Wm Wildes, S.J.
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031390975

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Organizational Ethics and Moral Integrity in Secular Societies by Kevin Wm Wildes, S.J. Pdf

This book explores an undeveloped area in postmodern thought: organizational ethics. Ethical debates and analyses usually focus on a particular act or action, an actor, and/or how a secular society should address any of those particular persons or events. In the Post Modern age, ethical decisions and policies are characterized by moral and cultural pluralism. However, there is a second factor that complicates ethical and policy decisions even further. This book argues that in the postmodern age ethical decisions often need to be understood as part of the decision making of organizations and bureaucracies. Organizational decisions often have direct bearing on the choices made by individuals. Two areas that exemplify postmodern issue are the areas of health care and education. For example the decision making of Admissions Officers in American higher education, are influenced by decisions that have been made by the university about the size of the class and the diversity of the class. Health Care organizations make policy decisions that affect every aspect of a patient’s care from admission to treatment and the types of care that are or are not offered. Both education and health care are the object of the significant investment of resources, both areas are value laden in postmodern, pluralistic societies, and yet we do not have a comprehensive method to understand them or evaluate them. This book is of interest to bioethicists, physicians, nurses, health care policy students, educational policy experts, students and government regulators.

Author : William T. Carruthers
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781525526183

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The Ethical Society by William T. Carruthers Pdf

“How is it that we know we are headed for destruction as a species, and yet are unable to effect the necessary changes needed for survival?” We know from history that our current thinking and values will not lead to a peaceful, sustainable future. It is more crucial now than ever that we learn to break the cycle so that we can create a global community that balances diversity and individuality with integration and harmony. The answer lies in how we think. We are trapped in social systems based on power structures designed to keep us divided in antagonistic and non-viable behaviors. We have divorced how we understand the world through science with how we find meaning in our lives through religion, alienating us from the world and each other. To overcome these challenges, we need to focus our thinking on the global community by giving priority to universal ethical values. With ethical priority, we can shift power interests from a tribal to a human perspective and reconnect understanding with meaning. We can reduce alienation and improve harmony around the world. In The Ethical Society, William Carruthers provides the roadmap for us to finally achieve that peaceful, sustainable world.

Author : I. D. MacKillop
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1986-02-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521266727

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The British Ethical Societies by I. D. MacKillop Pdf

A 1986 study of the British ethical societies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dr Mackillop's comprehensive account explores these societies, which became havens of discussion, rallying-points for progressive campaigns and places of secular worship along with the significant events and personalities in the history of the ethical movement.

Author : Andrew Linklater
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745667553

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Transformation of Political Community by Andrew Linklater Pdf

Sovereign nation states, which were formed in the context of major war, have been deeply exclusionary in their dealings with minority cultures and alien outsiders. In this book, Andrew Linklater claims that globalization, the pacification of core areas of the world economy and ethnic revolt challenge these traditional practices. As a result, new forms of political community and citizenship have become possible. In an original synthesis of recent developments in social and political theory, The Transformation of Political Community argues for new forms of political community which are cosmopolitan, sensitive to cultural differences and committed to reducing material inequalities. The book provides a bold account of post-Westphalian societies and the ethical principles which should inform their external relations. Linklater argues for political communities in which human relations are governed by dialogue and consent rather than power and force. The Transformation of Political Community will be of interest to students and academics in international relations, politics and sociology.

Author : Jonathan Sacks
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781541675322

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Morality by Jonathan Sacks Pdf

A distinguished religious leader's stirring case for reconstructing a shared framework of virtues and values. With liberal democracy embattled, public discourse grown toxic, family life breaking down, and drug abuse and depression on the rise, many fear what the future holds. In Morality, respected faith leader and public intellectual Jonathan Sacks traces today's crisis to our loss of a strong, shared moral code and our elevation of self-interest over the common good. We have outsourced morality to the market and the state, but neither is capable of showing us how to live. Sacks leads readers from ancient Greece to the Enlightenment to the present day to show that there is no liberty without morality and no freedom without responsibility, arguing that we all must play our part in rebuilding a common moral foundation. A major work of moral philosophy, Morality is an inspiring vision of a world in which we can all find our place and face the future without fear.

Author : Howard B. Radest
Publisher : Frederick Ungar
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015026265358

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Toward Common Ground by Howard B. Radest Pdf

Author : Leslie Stephen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Ethical problems
ISBN : HARVARD:32044010506855

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Social Rights and Duties by Leslie Stephen Pdf

Author : Alasdair MacIntyre
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781623569815

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After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre Pdf

Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in contemporary moral philosophy. In this book, MacIntyre sought to address a crisis in moral language that he traced back to a European Enlightenment that had made the formulation of moral principles increasingly difficult. In the search for a way out of this impasse, MacIntyre returns to an earlier strand of ethical thinking, that of Aristotle, who emphasised the importance of 'virtue' to the ethical life. More than thirty years after its original publication, After Virtue remains a work that is impossible to ignore for anyone interested in our understanding of ethics and morality today.

Author : Ismael Al-Amoudi,Emmanuel Lazega
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781351233453

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Post-Human Institutions and Organizations by Ismael Al-Amoudi,Emmanuel Lazega Pdf

When the Matrix trilogy was published in the mid-1980s, it introduced to mass culture a number of post-human tropes about the conscious machines that have haunted our collective imaginaries ever since. This volume explores the social representations and significance of technological developments – especially AI and human enhancement – that have started to transform our human agency. It uses these developments to revisit theories of the human mind and its essential characteristics: a first-person perspective, concerns and reflexivity. It looks at how the smart machines are used as agents of change in the basic institutions and organisations that hold contemporary societies together, for example in the family and the household, in commercial corporations, in health institutions or in the military. Its main purpose is to enrich the ongoing public discussion of the social and political implications of the smart machines by looking at the extent to which they further digitalise and bureaucratise the world, in particular by asking whether they are used to develop techno-totalitarian societies that corrode normativity and solidarity.

Author : Karamjit S. Gill
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781447132493

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Information Society by Karamjit S. Gill Pdf

Human-centredness: A Challenge to Post-industrial Europe? The key power in industrial society has been linked to the possession of capital and factory. In the "information society" it could be rather different. If one accepts that that the key power in the information society will be linked not so much to the ownership of information but to human creativity nourished by that information, the productive force of today and tomorrow, could be more and more the human brain. Making use of one's intelligence is always accompanied by positive emotion, which in turn further activates the intelligence. But, unfortunately, under present conditions workers of all levels live in fear, anxiety and stress rather than desire and motivation. The question of "basic human ecology" (quality of life) is, therefore, a major strategic factor. It is precisely the opposite to the mechanisms of exclusion that currently dominate our society: exclusion of young people through joblessness - but also exclusion through technology, as with the helplessness of older people or the poorly educated confronted with ticket dispensing machines or other automats. This is not idle theorizing, it corresponds to concrete facts. It is, for example, how some observers interpret the crisis at IBM. Because its programs were less 'human-friendly', it was shaken to its foundations by Apple and Microsof- though it seems since to have learnt its lesson.

Author : Luppicini, Rocci
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781605669533

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Technoethics and the Evolving Knowledge Society: Ethical Issues in Technological Design, Research, Development, and Innovation by Luppicini, Rocci Pdf

"This book introduces the reader to the key concepts and issues that comprise the emerging field of Technoethics, the interdisciplinary field concerned with all ethical aspects of technology within a society shaped by technology"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Andrea M. Maccarini
Publisher : Springer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030136246

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Deep Change and Emergent Structures in Global Society by Andrea M. Maccarini Pdf

This book addresses the problem of the transition to new forms of social order in the global world. As a haunting sense of historical discontinuity pervades Western societies, it offers a fresh perspective on the issue, focusing on two basic coordinates to pinpoint the developmental path of rapidly changing societies: one is the mechanism of unfettered social morphogenesis and the other is the specific kind of societal unification brought about by globalization, with the related closure of the world. The book draws on the theoretical work produced in the five volumes of the Springer series ‘’Social Morphogenesis’’ and applies it in a sustained and concerted approach to the empirical examination of macro-social change. The first part of the book presents the social ontology of the morphogenetic approach, and discusses its capacity to interpret macrosocial transitions. The second part then draws a prospective outline of the social formation known as the ‘morphogenic society,’ showing how unbound morphogenesis in a globalized world shapes such crucial phenomena as social norms, war and violence, openness and closure as adaptive responses from social organizations. Lastly, the third part examines the anthropological consequences of these societal trends, focusing on self and character as well as on human fulfillment and the ‘good life’.