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Publisher
ISTE Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This book covers all forms of ethical assessment of research and innovation at the European Commission, including the implications of the concept of RRI which has emerged as a new framework to be used by the European Commission, and indeed including the newer concepts of Open Innovation and Open Science which are designed to subsume and reconfigure RRI. The book can be used as a 'how to' guide to understand and navigate the ethical and societal demands...
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Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Meritocracy: the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their birth. While this initially seemed like a novel concept, by the end of the twentieth century it had become the world's ruling ideology. How did this happen, and why is meritocracy now under attack from both right and left? In The Aristocracy of Talent, esteemed journalist and historian Adrian Wooldridge traces the history of meritocracy forged by the...
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Curt Verschoor on Ethics is a compilation of the best business ethics columns that will continue for years forward to be of lasting educational value. In a company setting, the columns can function as the basis for discussion on proper business ethics. In academia, the columns can serve as assigned readings over significant ethics events and issues. Some topics that are covered in the columns include: value of a strong ethical culture, studies of...
Author
Publisher
MIT Sloan Management Review
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Business ethics has become too complex and is undermining the ability of companies to meet the ethical expectations of stakeholders. Simpler is better. Leaders need to stop outsourcing ethics and explain their company's value propositions in a clear, concise, nontechnical sentence or two that their least sophisticated stakeholder can understand. And they need to resist making big bets on visions for future social change instead of being transparent...
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Publisher
CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"This book develops an intellectual framework for analyzing ethical dilemmas that is both grounded in theory and versatile enough to deal rigorously with real-world issues. It sees ethics as a necessary foundation for the social infrastructure that makes modern life possible, much as engineering is a foundation for physical infrastructure. It is not wedded to any particular ethical philosophy but draws from several traditions to construct a unified...
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The field of business ethics continues to expand intellectually and geographically. During the past five decades, scholars have developed and deepened their inquiries into the ethics of commercial and corporate conduct. This Companion provides a novel overview of the discipline of business ethics, covering the major areas of the field as well as new and emerging topics. The eight thematic units range over an extraordinary set of subjects and include...
70) The real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, big pharma, and the global war on democracy and public health
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Series
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English
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"The Real Anthony Fauci details how Fauci, Gates, and their cohorts use their control of media outlets, scientific journals, key government and quasi-governmental agencies, global intelligence agencies, and influential scientists and physicians to flood the public with fearful propaganda about COVID-19 virulence and pathogenesis, and to muzzle debate and ruthlessly censor dissent"--
As director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Description
Should you take a much-needed vacation or save money for the kids' education? Protect the endangered owl or maintain jobs for loggers? Have a heart-to-heart with a lying employee or fire him on the spot? All of us face ethical choices. Sometimes they're easy: One side is wrong and the other is right. But how do we handle the really tough "right vs. right" dilemmas, where each side has strong moral arguments and we can't do both? The author, teaches...
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us) and for fighting off everyone else (Them). But modern times have forced the world's tribes into a shared space, resulting in epic clashes of values along with unprecedented opportunities. As the world shrinks, the moral lines that divide us become more salient and more puzzling. We fight over everything from tax codes to gay marriage to global warming, and...
73) Moral courage
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Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Publisher description: In a book rich with examples, Rushworth Kidder reveals that moral courage is the bridge between talking ethics and doing ethics. Defining it as a readiness to endure danger for the sake of principle, he explains that the courage to act is found at the intersection of three elements: action based on core values, awareness of the risks, and a willingness to endure necessary hardship. By exploring how moral courage spurs us to...
74) Ethics
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Publisher
Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A compendium of opinion on the ethical aspects of such issues as religion vs. secularism, abortion, health care access, and the minimum wage.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"What is the relationship between politics and morality? Should politicians violate moral constraints to achieve greater goods or to avoid disasters? Is it always wrong for politicians to lie and deceive? In Political Ethics: A Handbook, edited by Andrew Sabl and Edward Hall, a collection of leading experts in the field of political ethics offer an introduction to the key issues in this rapidly growing subfield of political theory. The essays cover...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Beyond Religion" is a stirring call to move beyond religion for the guidance to improve human life on individual, community, and global levels--including a guided meditation practice for cultivating key human values.
79) The prince
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Language
English
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A new translation of the infamous classic, now in a striking deluxe edition. "The Prince" shocked 16th-century Europe with its advocacy of ruthless tactics for gaining absolute sovereignty, and it retains its power to alarm and to instruct.
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In Morality, the distinguished religious leader and philosopher Rabbi Jonathan Sacks diagnoses our troubled times as a period of "cultural climate change." Delivering an insightful critique of our modern condition, and assessing its roots and causes from the ancient Greeks through the Reformation and Enlightenment to the present day, Sacks argues that there is no liberty without morality, and no freedom without responsibility"--
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