The Moral Dimension

Author : T. M. Scanlon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674057457
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Dimensions written by T. M. Scanlon and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a clear and elegant style, T. M. Scanlon reframes current philosophical debates as he explores the moral permissibility of an action. Permissibility may seem to depend on the agentÕs reasons for performing an action. For example, there seems to be an important moral difference between tactical bombing and a campaign by terroristsÑeven if the same number of non-combatants are killedÑand this difference may seem to lie in the agentsÕ respective aims. However, Scanlon argues that the apparent dependence of permissibility on the agentÕs reasons in such cases is merely a failure to distinguish between two kinds of moral assessment: assessment of the permissibility of an action and assessment of the way an agent decided what to do. Distinguishing between these two forms of assessment leads Scanlon to an important distinction between the permissibility of an action and its meaning: the significance for others of the agentÕs willingness to act in this way. An actionÕs meaning depends on the agentÕs reasons for performing it in a way that its permissibility does not. Blame, he argues, is a response to the meaning of an action rather than its permissibility. This analysis leads to a novel account of the conditions of moral responsibility and to important conclusions about the ethics of blame.

Author : J. Oxley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230347800
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moral Dimensions of Empathy written by J. Oxley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-12-02 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does empathy help us to be moral? The author argues that empathy is often instrumental to meeting the demands of morality as defined by various ethical theories. This multi-faceted work links psychological research on empathy with ethical theory and contemporary trends in moral education.

Author : John I. Goodlad
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 : 9781555426378
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moral Dimensions of Teaching written by John I. Goodlad and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1993-12-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[The authors] artfully piece together important essays ineducational policy and philosophy. . . . The book deals in detailwith such issues as teacher professionalization, moralresponsibility of public schools, accountability, and ethical codesof practice. Must reading for teachers, administrators, andprofessors in schools and departments of education." --Choice

Author : Cary Buzzelli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135722544
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moral Dimensions of Teaching written by Cary Buzzelli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cary Buzzelli and Bill Johnson reinvigorate the enduring question: What is the place of morality in the classroom? Departing from notions of a morality that can only be abstract and absolute, these authors ground their investigation in analyses of actual teacher-student interactions. This approach illuminates the ways in which language, power and culture impact "the moral" in teaching. Buzzelli and Johnson's study addresses a wide range of moral issues in various classroom contexts. Its practical and diverse examples make it a valuable resource for teachers and teacher development programs.

Author : Howard S. Cohen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031339072X
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power and Restraint written by Howard S. Cohen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1991-06-30 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In accepting the authority to govern, what responsibilities do the police incur? Power and Restraint answers this question by using a moral perspective grounded in the social contract, and by defining an ethical basis for police work. Howard S. Cohen and Michael Feldberg posit five standards by which to measure responsible police behavior: fair access, public trust, safety and security, teamwork, and objectivity. To test their proposals, Cohen and Feldberg apply these standards to several familiar yet challenging cases that are encountered in municipal patrol work in the United States, illustrating how police officers can develop appropriate moral responses to complex and difficult circumstances. These developed standards of ethical behavior can be used as a basis for the rehearsal of decision-making and action in police training as well as for the judicious evaluation of police behavior after the fact. The authors developed their theories over a 10-year period by spending hundreds of hours in seminars on police ethics with officers and trainers from across the country, carefully discussing specific cases and examples of moral issues that were most troubling to the officers themselves. With its systematic and integrated approach to the analysis and evaluation of cases, this timely work extends the field of police ethics. The two-section volume begins with an introduction that describes how the authors arrived at the system of ethical standards that is developed in detail in the three chapters of Part I. In Part II, four chapters present challenging scenarios that test the developed standards in the context of real policing situations, addressing such issues as excessive force, gratuities and corruption, balancing individual rights with keeping the peace, and sorting through the conflict between loyalty to colleagues and telling the truth under oath about possible wrongdoing. This book will be invaluable to instructors in university-level criminal justice courses that deal with ethics or the police. It could also be used in courses in applied ethics in philosophy and will be an important resource for police academy trainers for both in-service and recruit training.

Author : Steven Ang
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782546685
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moral Dimensions of Intellectual Property Rights written by Steven Ang and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-27 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a globalized world with globalizing IPRs where culturally assumed norms must be re-examined, this work has an urgent and important contribution to make. Taking the main features of internationally mandated IPRs as a starting point it explores the mo

Author : Wilfrid J. Waluchow
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1460400844
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dimensions of Ethics written by Wilfrid J. Waluchow and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2003-03-27 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dimensions of Ethics offers a concise but wide-ranging introduction to moral philosophy. In clear and engaging fashion, the author first examines the scope of ethical theory, and explores central metaethical questions such as the issue of relativism, and the relationship between morality and religion. He then turns to an exploration of five theoretical approaches (utilitarianism, the deontological approach of Kant, the ethical pluralism of Ross, virtue ethics, and feminist ethics), in each case providing a consideration of various objections that have been advanced as well as a sympathetic exposition of the core principles of each approach. Throughout he uses a wide range of examples, and integrates references to issues in applied ethics with his discussions of ethical theory.

Author : Amitai Etzioni
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 143913653X
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Dimension written by Amitai Etzioni and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blending elements of psychology, philosophy, and sociology with economics, Etzioni presents a bold new vision of the social sciences - one which proposes that broader moral, social and political concerns modify economic behaviour and shape individual decision-making. In establishing the necessitary of moral and social considerations in economic behaviour, he provides a provocative new framework for a more comprehensive, ethical and realistic approach to the social sciences today.

Author : Th.A. van Baarda
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047424603
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moral Dimension of Asymmetrical Warfare written by Th.A. van Baarda and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Cold War - an era in which the term ‘asymmetric warfare’ was not well known - the issue of the laws and ethics of war seemed simple enough to most soldiers, being concerned mainly with leadership, management, and morale. Post-Cold War reality revealed a very different set of challenges, including a significantly wider moral dimension, particularly when forces, initially under UN leadership and later under the NATO flag, were deployed in different parts of the turbulent Balkans. Military observers, by now with legal advisers close by, watched events in the Balkans, East Timor and then in central and West Africa with professional interest, and some were involved there. A few years later, soldiers were subsequently caught as much by surprise by the events of 9/11, a graphic example of asymmetric warfare, as most of the rest of the world. The initial, post 9/11 response in Afghanistan and Iraq brought the notion of the fragile or collapsed state, and the blurring of the roles of military forces, international organisations, non-governmental organisations, non-state actors, and indigenous administrators and their uniformed organisations, and with them the moral dilemmas, to much wider notice. More recent conflicts have indeed shown the need for commanders and soldiers in all types of conflict to have a much better understanding of the complex moral and legal environments, and opened new debates about the principle of ‘winning hearts and minds’ in counter-insurgency and peace support operations. Moreover, technological superiority by the West has also produced mixed benefits in the field of military operations, and posed additional dilemmas, many of them moral. The trend towards defining human rights and ‘fundamental freedoms’ poses further questions for the soldier today. This collection of essays, written by a wide variety of practising experts and scholars, touches on all these issues. It links the medieval traditions of jus in bello, codified by Saint Thomas Aquinas in the Christian Church nearly eight centuries ago, to examination of modern challenges and moral dilemmas relating to the ethics and laws of conflict and crises of all types in the twenty-first century, and in a global context among people of many different faiths and beliefs, and none. It is an important collection for all those researching or practically involved in conflict and post-conflict situations.

Author : Carl Wellman
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199744785
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moral Dimensions of Human Rights written by Carl Wellman and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Moral Dimensions of Human Rights, Carl Wellman takes a broad approach to human rights by discussing all three types - moral, international, and national -at length. At the same time, Wellman pays special attention to the moral reasons that are relevant to each kind of human rights.